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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tara Rico & Juan Luzuriaga
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Inaugural Poet Laureate of Manteca Tara Rico and San Luis Obispo poet Juan Luzuriaga \nDate: Tuesday\, January 13\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nThe reading is free; drinks\, snacks\, and books are available for purchase at Bookish. Open mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nTara Rico \nTara Rico (she/her/ella) is a local writer\, advocate\, performer\, and educator. She is the City of Manteca’s first Poet Laureate; her work can be found in collections such as the Tuleberg Press anthology The Fire Within: Labor\, Art\, and the Human Spirit.  \nTara is also the founder of MAS Improv 209 and POETICAS Institute\, a new nonprofit committed to bringing written\, performing\, and other creative art to the Central Valley and under-resourced communities.  \nTara is an actor and comedian who has performed recently at the Pam Kitto Black Box Theater of Stockton\, Modesto’s Prospect Theater\, and at the Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness Center’s “Kings\, Queens\, and Comedians” drag show of 2024.  \n  \nJuan Luzuriaga \nJuan Luzuriaga was born in Guayaquil\, Ecuador\, and immigrated to the U.S. at 16 in 2000. He studied Neuroscience at Rutgers University and English at UC Merced. He teaches poetry in prisons\, at Cuesta College\, and California Poets in the Schools. He has been a featured panelist at UC Merced\, Cuesta College Central Coast Writers’ Conference\, Litfest and more\, and he is a featured panelist at the 2026 San Francisco Writers Conference Poetry Summit.   \nHe has been published in Acentos Review\, San Diego Poetry Annual\, Monterey Poetry Review\, Cholla Needles\, Poetry Breakfast\, Matchbox Magazine\, and in the anthologies Silence Is Consent\, To Be Completely Honest\, and Method Writers Speak. His collection\, Chimborazo Whispers\, is forthcoming from Blue Light Press.  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026jan/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Mini Workshop for Teen Poets: How to Write a Tiny Poem
DESCRIPTION:Woven Words Tiny Poem Contest: Teen Voices from the Central Valley\, presented by MoSt Poetry’s Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program\, is now open for submissions from Stanislaus County high school students grades 9-12. \nPoets are invited to submit 1-3 very short poems (3-5 lines). The contest is free and open to anyone living in or attending high schools in Stanislaus County. \nThe author of the winning poem in each of the five categories wins $50. Poets are also invited to submit poems to the anthology without connecting them to the contest themes. The contest deadline is January 31\, 2026. Stanislaus County YPL Valentina Zeff will weave the short submissions together to create one book-length poem\, to be published as an anthology and distributed to participants. \nZeff will be conducting a mini-workshop on writing a tiny poem and will discuss the contest on Saturday\, December 13\,  202\, at 1:00 pm on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81498958531 \nThe Stanislaus Youth Poet Laureate program is presented by MoSt Poetry in partnership with SCOE\, Stanislaus County Library\, MJC’s School of Language Arts & Education and the Library & Learning Center\, and the Stanislaus Library Foundation.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025dec13ypl/
CATEGORIES:Contests,Workshops,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday - MoSt Member Potluck/Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our December reading at The Dragonfly- Art for Life for a joyful open mic and potluck for members of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. \nWe’d love to have you there! It’s not too late to join MoSt–you can join at the door\, even.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-most-members-potluck-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Dragonfly Art for Life\, 1210 J Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Other Events,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Lucille Lang Day and Carl Landauer
DESCRIPTION:Please join host Gary Thomas at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday\, November 22\, 2025 at Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, California) for a poetry reading featuring Lucille Lang Day and Carl Landauer. There will be light refreshments and an open mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \n \nLucille Lang Day is the author of four poetry chapbooks and seven full-length collections\, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place. She has also edited three poetry anthologies and published two children’s books and a memoir. Her work appears in more than 200 magazines and anthologies\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, The Hudson Review\, River Styx\, The Threepenny Review\, Scientific American\, ZYZZYVA\, and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize\, two PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Awards\, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award\, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. She is founder and publisher of a small press\, Scarlet Tanager Books. https://lucillelangday.com \n  \n \nCarl Landauer taught history at Yale\, Stanford\, and McGill and is currently a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and a visiting scholar with UC Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies. His poetry has appeared in Kenyon Review\, Exacting Clam\, and Poetry Flash. His writing on poetry and cultural history has appeared in Beat Scene\, The American Scholar\, Salmagundi\, Confrontation\, Renaissance Quarterly\, German Studies Review\, and Poetry Flash—as well as a critical analysis of Project 2025 published by Public Seminar. He is currently writing a long series of poems he calls “refracted ekphrases\,” each of which focuses on a movie that is adapted from literature. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-lucille-lang-day-and-carl-landauer/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Reading featuring Marisol Baca & Gillian Wegener at Bookish
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Bookish Modesto as we feature two tremendous Central Valley poets: Gillian Wegener and Marisol Baca. \nMarisol Baca teaches English\, Literature\, and Creative Writing at Fresno City College. She teaches Honors in the Leon S. Peters Honors Program\, and she also teaches as a part of the RAIN program (Resources for American Indian Needs). Baca is the author of a book of poems called Tremor\, and she was named Fresno’s first woman and first Chicana/Latinx Poet Laureate (2019-2021). Marisol’s poem about the naming of Fresno has been designated the city’s official poem. \nGillian Wegener is the author of one chapbook and two full-length collections of poetry: Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (2008)\, and This Sweet Haphazard (2017)\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press. She is also the founding president of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, a previous Poet Laureate for the City of Modesto (2012-2016)\, and a two-time recipient of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She is a long-time educator in Oakdale and has lived in Modesto longer than she’s lived anywhere else. \nThe reading starts at 7:00 at Bookish Modesto. With open mic following featured poets. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025nov11/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251025T130000
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SUMMARY:Author Bio Workshop & Youth Poet Laureate Q & A
DESCRIPTION:Mini Author Biography Workshop & Youth Poet Laureate Q & A\nValentina Zeff\, current Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate\, answers your questions! \nJoin us on Saturday\, October 25\, 2025\, at 1:00 p.m. as Youth Poet Laureate Valentina Zeff shares tips on how to write an author bio.  This is great to have when you’re submitting poems to anthologies and poetry journals\, entering poetry contests\, and when you’ve been asked to feature at a poetry reading. \nFeel free to drop in and meet Valentina and learn about the Woven Words: Teen Voices from the Central Valley Anthology and how you can submit poems for that. \nZoom Meeting Link 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/25oct2025/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry presents FIVE FOR TEN: Five Central Valley Poets
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry: Five for Ten\, featuring five Central Valley poets:  \n  \nCasey Giffen\nDaley Perry\nCynthia Barstad\nPaloma Contreras\nMelchor Sahagun III\n \nDate: Tuesday\, October 14\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nCASEY GIFFEN:  \nA retired teacher of 40 years\, Casey enjoys creating on-demand poems on his manual\, Smith-Corona typewriter. His poetry has been published in Modesto Poets’ Corner Contests\, Penumbra\, and the Hughson Chronicle. Acts of Becoming is his second poetry collection.  \nPALOMA CONTRERAS:  \nPaloma Contreras is a Mexican\, bilingual poet and educator. Most of her writing is autobiographical and deals with themes of loss. \nMELCHOR SAHAGUN III: \nMelchor Sahagun III is a poet and corny romantic who lives in Stockton. His collection\, Sorry I’m Late\, was published by Tuleberg Press.  \nDALEY PERRY:  \nDaley Perry is a Central Valley native who lived in Tennessee for 15 years before (very happily) returning home in 2019. She loves writing angsty poetry that explores themes of spirituality\, smashing the patriarchy\, pop culture\, and loving our bodies.  \nCYNTHIA BARSTAD: Cynthia Barstad\, an early childhood educator for 30 years before she retired\, has shared her words with her family\, friends\, and strangers for years. She has been published in Stanislaus Connections along with her granddaughter Jenissa\, who shares Cynthia’s passion for words.  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025oct/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Autumn Nature Poetry Reading & Walk at Dos Rios State Park
DESCRIPTION:AUTUMN NATURE POETRY READING AND WALK \nSaturday\, October 11\, 2025 –  9:00-11:00 a.m.\nDOS RIOS STATE PARK\n3559 Shiloh Road\nModesto\, CA\nJoin us at the base camp of the oxbow pond for our third nature poetry reading and walk. Park visitors are invited to bring a few of their favorite poems on nature\, written by themselves or by other writers\, that they can share. Hosted by Sal Salerno\, local poet and park volunteer. The reading will be followed by a 10:00 a.m. optional walk on the Pond Loop Trail\, led by State Park staff.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/autumn-nature-poetry-reading-walk-at-dos-rios-state-park/
LOCATION:Dos Rios State Park\, 3559 Shiloh Rd\, Modesto\, CA\, 95358\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250913T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250913T150000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop "Poetry in Full Colors -  Poesía a Todo Color"
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop at the Salida Library    September 13\, 2025    1:00-3:00 p.m.     \nPoetry in Full Colors -a workshop -Creating your Pallet of Expression in Colors \nCome write with Janette Jameson and Vielka Solano\, board members of MoSt Poetry. \nWe will use words such as blue\, green and brown to accentuate the emotions\, tone and messages in our poems or prose. Colors such as red\, orange and yellow will also be invited to declare themselves in joy and sadness. \nBring a favorite pen and your pad or notebook and meet with others who write with a variety of experience. \nSupplies for writing will also be provided. \n  \nMoSt Taller de Poesía de Verano  en la Biblioteca de Salida    Septiembre 13\, 2025    1:00-3:00 p.m.   \nPoesía a Todo Color – un taller – Creando tu Paleta de Expresión en Colores \nVen a escribir con Janette Jameson y Vielka Solano\, miembros de la junta de MoSt Poetry.  \nUsaremos palabras como azul\, verde y marrón para acentuar las emociones\, tono y mensajes en nuestros poemas y prosa. Colores como rojo\, naranja y amarillo también serán invitados a declararse en alegría y tristeza. \nTrae tu pluma favorita y tu libreta y conoce a otros escritores con varios niveles de experiencia.  \nÚtiles para escribir también estarán disponible.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-summer-poetry-workshop-poetry-in-full-colors-poesia-a-todo-color/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Samantha Tetangco Ocena and Moira Magneson
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Samantha Tetangco Ocena and Moira Magneson\, El Dorado County’s newest poet laureate \nDate: Tuesday\, Sep 9\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nSamantha Tetangco Ocena\nSamantha Tetangco Ocena is a Filipino-American writer and teacher. Her poetry collection\, Hope You Blend In: Studies In Color & Light (Broadstone Books\, 2024)\, was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series. A multi-genre writer\, her poetry\, short stories\, and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines\, most notably\, The Sun\, Tri-Quarterly\, Puerto del Sol\, Zone 3\, Gertrude\, Foglifter\, and Cimarron Review\, among others. Sam has served as editor-in-chief for Blue Mesa Review\, president of the AWP LGBTQ Writer’s Caucus\, and was co-director of Plume: A Writer’s Companion\, where she co-hosted Plume: A Writer’s Podcast. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and is an Associate Teaching Professor at the University of California Merced. \nABOUT HOPE YOU BLEND IN: STUDIES IN COLOR & LIGHT\nIn this fierce debut\, poet Samantha Tetangco wields “words like flint” to reveal the world we live in\, from the apocalyptic world of California wildfires where “our backyards became / this hell / we have created” to the real world in which the queer brown body becomes “an open wound.” But these poems also remind us of the ordinary magic left to us: breathing in a lover’s scent\, planting tulips\, and even the beauty of weeds blossoming “so small & sweet / they always go unnamed.” Meticulously crafted and political in the best ways\, this book brims with sharp beauty and reminds us what it is to be human. \n–Lisa D. Chavez\, author of In an Angry Season \n​Samantha Tetangco’s gaze is so sharp in this collection of poems\, that a single shift in tense can pierce a hole in the wall of contemporary rhetoric. We who “taught the matches / how to strike” are given an aperture to view our own participation in history. Beyond holding witness\, these poems provoke action. Are we—sharing a home\, a country\, a planet (on fire!)—actually in this together or are we just pretending? You will be known by what you choose: will you be a bearer or a borer of fruit? \n–Benjamin Garcia\, author of Thrown in the Throat \n  \nMoira Magneson\n \nOver the years\, Moira Magneson has worked as a river guide\, artist’s model\, truck driver\, television writer\, editor\, and community college writing instructor. A Northern California native\, she lives in the Sierra foothills where she has spearheaded many art actions and initiatives\, including El Dorado County’s Poetry Out Loud Competition\, Veterans’ Voices\, Barbaric Yawp\, and Black Lives: An American Overture. In 2024\, she was the resident poet for ForestSong\, a community arts project exploring solastalgia\, biophilia\, and resilience in the face of wildfire devastation. And just recently\, she was named El Dorado County’s Poet Laureate 25-27. Magneson is the author of A River Called Home: A River Fable\, an illustrated novella (Toad Road Press\, 2024). In the Eye of the Elephant is her first full-length collection of poems.  \n\nABOUT IN THE EYE OF THE ELEPHANT\nMoira Magneson’s In the Eye of the Elephant is an extraordinary collection of poems. I’ve rarely seen a book so exquisite in its centering of the natural world or in its honoring of the animal within us as well as those animals alongside us. Yet these poems are also dazzling and explosive in their reckonings with personal family wreckage\, and so deeply moving\, so deeply consoling in both their private and public grieving. Magneson writes\, “I praise Earth as it is\, its holy cup my heaven.” What a timely balm this book will be to its readers\, and what a treasure of visionary human compassion they will find. \n—David St. John\, author of Prayer for My Daughter \nI am drawn to Moira Magneson’s poems for the grime and gristle of their language—“elisions and plosives swept / piecemeal and stained // off the slaughterhouse floor”—for storytelling that stares pain in the face and delivers a hard-earned\, unexpected beauty that is possible because of a clear-eyed placement in the natural world. This world is not romanticized but instead made wondrous through images that invite readers to consider their own station in the wild. In the Eye of the Elephant is rewarding on numerous levels; I’ll come back to it again and again. \n—Albert Garcia\, author of A Meal Like That
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025sept/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250830T140000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Joshua McKinney & Cecil Morris
DESCRIPTION:Please join host Gary Thomas at 2:00 p.m. Saturday\, August 30\, 2025 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA for a poetry reading featuring Joshua McKinney and Cecil Morris. There will be light refreshments and an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public. \n \nJoshua McKinney’s fifth book of poetry\, Sad Animal (2024)\, was the recipient of the John Ridland Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard\, Denver Quarterly\, Kenyon Review\, New American Writing\, and many others. He is co-editor of the online ecopoetics journal\, Clade Song. \n \nCecil Morris taught high school English for 37 years in Roseville\, the small northern California city where he grew up. At Work in the Garden of Possibilities is his debut poetry collection. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee\, Morris has poems in The 2River Review\, Ekphrastic Review\, Hole in the Head Review\, Lascaux Review\, Rust + Moth\, Sugar House Review\, and elsewhere. He and his wife\, the mother of their children\, divide their year between their California hometown and the cool Oregon coast\, where they walk the beach and marvel at the sea and tide pools and joyful romping dogs. \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-joshua-mckinney-cecil-morris/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250816T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250816T150000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop - The Journey Itself is Home: Haibun as Travel Journal
DESCRIPTION:Haibun——the blending or braiding of prose poetry and haiku——has been a vehicle to reflect upon and write about human journeys——external and internal——since the days of the 17th Century Japanese poet Bashō. Join MoSt board member Gary Thomas as we consider and make some sense of the journeys we take in life. Writing supplies will be provided\, but feel free to bring your favorite pen\, pad\, tablet\, and/or travel photos! \nAs always\, this MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop is free and open to the public. We hope to see you from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday\, August 16th at the Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida CA.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-summer-poetry-workshop-the-journey-itself-is-home-haibun-as-travel-journal/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250812T203000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry: Modesto Poet Laureate Angela Drew + Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Valentina Zeff
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Modesto Poet Laureate Angela Drew with special guest Valentina Zeff\, Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate \nDate: Tuesday\, August 12\,  2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nANGELA DREW  \nAngela Drew is a mother\, dancer\, author\, poet\, and self-proclaimed linguistic artist who has loved the rhythm of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, California\, she began writing at age eight\, and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. She has played with the magic of storytelling ever since.  Angela is the winner and first-place slam champion of Modesto’s 2021 ILL List 16 Poetry Slam. She has performed her spoken word poetry at an array of venues\, just to name a few: Yoshi’s Jazz Club\, Oakland\, California; Gallo Center for the Arts and the State Theater\, Modesto\, California; Brickhouse Art Gallery\, Sacramento\, California\, and Apache Cafe\, Atlanta\, Georgia–a landmark poetry lounge that is home to some of Atlanta’s finest creatives.   \nShe is the author of ElderBerry Wine\, a children’s book written in poetic verse that celebrates the beauty and majesty of our elders\, and the richness they bring by  simply being a part of our lives. Join Angela on her poetic journey on all social media platforms. Her book is available on Amazon\, Barnes & Noble\, and other booksellers.   \n  \nVALENTINA ZEFF \nValentina Zeff is a sixteen-year-old poet from Modesto\, California who is currently enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program at Modesto High School. Zeff has been writing free verse and ballad poetry since her freshman year of high school. \nZeff is active within her community and school through social and environmental activism\, extracurricular projects\, and volunteering. She was selected to be a member of the Park’s Youth Committee (April 2024-current)\, Modesto Youth Commission (October 2024-current)\, and student representative for Modesto High School’s Student Senate for both ninth and tenth grade. During the 2023-2024 Speech and Debate season\, she was a top finalist for Original Spoken Word Poetry at State Qualifications. She is also the founder and Co-President of Modesto High School’s Book Club where she leads discussions on novels and poems of interest. Additionally\, she is the Secretary and head layout editor/designer of the Panther Press\, Modesto High School’s monthly newspaper. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025aug12/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T143000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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SUMMARY:Free Poetry Workshop: Paint Chip Poetry at the Library
DESCRIPTION:Join Stella Beratlis at the Salida Library on July 19\, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. in a cool\, fun\, and relaxed environment to try out a variety of poetry prompts inspired by the descriptive language of paint chips. All ages invited.  \nFeel free to bring your own extra paint chips to add to the prompt possibilities.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/free-poetry-workshop-paint-chip-poetry/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
CREATED:20250627T172145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250627T175952Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Sherre Vernon and Paula Sheil
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Sherre Vernon (Merced) and Paula Sheil (Stockton) \nDate: Tuesday\, July 8\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nPaula Sheil  \nPaula Sheil is a Professor of English at San Joaquin Delta College. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Raymond College and a Master of Arts in Writing from New College of California. She founded\, with friends\, Tuleburg Press in 2012 and The Write Place in 2017. \nShe taught elementary education\, moved on to arts administration\, and then journalism before joining the faculty at Delta. In the 1990s\, she ran an open mic that prompted her interest in publishing. She and the late Julia Holzer published ¡ZamBomba!\, a poetry quarterly that was read from Seattle to San Diego\, until 2000. At Delta\, Sheil started the Writer’s Guild and Artifact\, the college literary magazine.  \nHer work has been published in too many small journals\, magazines\, and newspapers to mention. She’s prouder yet of the poets and writers she has published and remains committed to empowering and amplifying the voices of Stockton and San Joaquin.  \nSherre Vernon \nSherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings\, The Name is Perilous\, and Flame Nebula\, Bright Nova. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review\, nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes\, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. \nWe welcome these poets\, both new to the Second Tuesday series!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025july/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250621T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Summer Workshop "Writing Prose Poems: Breaking Free of the Line Break"
DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY\, JUNE 21\, 2025         \n1 p.m. to 3 p.m. \nSALIDA PUBLIC LIBRARY \n4835 SISK ROAD\, SALIDA\, CA 95368  \n As the downtown Modesto library undergoes extensive renovations\, the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) will be kicking off its annual summer workshop series this year at a new location\, the Salida Public Library. \nParticipants will be given the opportunity to read several outstanding examples of the form by noted practitioners and discuss them and how those pieces differ from other types of poetry.  As usual\, though\, the bulk of the time will be dedicated to having attendees begin crafting their own prose poems that afternoon. As always\, we would love to hear what’s been written during the session\, but only if you feel comfortable doing so. \nWe look forward to seeing you that day!!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-summer-workshop-writing-prose-poems-breaking-free-of-the-line-break/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250610T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
CREATED:20250524T025432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250524T025432Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Aideed Medina and Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Fresno’s newest Poet Laureate and spoken word artist Aideed Medina with Tracy poet\, teacher\, and spoken word artist Russell Reza-Khaliz Gonzaga\n\nDate: Tuesday\, June 10\, 2025Time: 7:00 pm PSTWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center\n\nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener\n\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga has hosted and organized events and workshops including the Sierra Poetry Festival\, the Center Camp Spoken Word Stage at Burning Man\, and the weekly ELYSEUM Writers Workshops at Harbin Hot Springs. Russell is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Lake County (2012-2014) and has represented San Francisco for three years at the National Poetry Slam. As an Arts Educator\, he has worked with several organizations including YouthSpeaks and WritersCorps. He is also the recipient of the Certificate of Honor from the Board of Supervisors and a Mayor’s declaration of “Russell Gonzaga Day” in San Francisco. Currently\, Russell is Poetry Editor for The Fabulist\, hosts the monthly Word Bubbles Open Mic in Tracy CA\, and is caretaker for his beloved Auntie Rosie.\n\nAideed Medina\n\n\nAideed Medina is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet\, award-winning spoken word artist and playwright\, and is the author of 31 Hummingbird: A Suite of Poems (Editorial Xingao\, 2023) and Segmented Bodies (Prickly Pear Press\,  2024). Her poetry and prose have been featured in many publications\, including Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine\, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal\, La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Split This Rock\, and Nueva York Poetry Review\, among many others\, as well as in compositions for the 559 Mural Project and Fresno Grand Opera’s Opera Remix. Aideed is also a California Naturalist\, and practices “flor y canto” as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history. This past April\, Aideed was appointed Fresno’s seventh poet laureate. She will serve through March 2027.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-with-aideed-medina-and-russell-reza-khaliq-gonzaga/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T000733Z
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poets' Corner Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Parks\, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. \nContest Winners\nPoets will be invited to read their winning poems on Sunday\, June 1\, 2025 at 1:00 P.M. at the McHenry Museum\, followed by light refreshments. \nWinning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf\, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet. \nWinners will be notified by email (or mail\, when email is unavailable.) \nFor more info go to https://www.modestogov.com/558/Poets-Corner-Contest
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading-reception-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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SUMMARY:Welcome 2025-2026 Youth Poet Laureate: Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be celebrating our incoming youth poet laureate\, Valentina Zeff\, at a reading/reception at Modesto Junior College’s Science Community Center.  Come listen to a few poems\, meet youth poets\, and learn about the youth poet laureate program. \nValentina Zeff is a sixteen-year-old poet from Modesto\, California who is currently enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program at Modesto High School. Zeff has been writing free verse and ballad poetry since her freshman year of high school. \nZeff is active within her community and school through social and environmental activism\, extracurricular projects\, and volunteering. She was selected to be a member of the Park’s Youth Committee (April 2024-current)\, Modesto Youth Commission (October 2024-current)\, and student representative for Modesto High School’s Student Senate for both ninth and tenth grade. During the 2023-2024 Speech and Debate season\, she was a top finalist for Original Spoken Word Poetry at State Qualifications. She is also the founder and Co-President of Modesto High School’s Book Club where she leads discussions on novels and poems of interest. Additionally\, she is the Secretary and head layout editor/designer of the Panther Press\, Modesto High School’s monthly newspaper. \nPlease welcome our incoming Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate\, Valentina Zeff! \nThe Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program is administered by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt Poetry) with partners MJC Library & Learning Center & MJC School of Language Arts & Education\, Stanislaus County Office of Education\, Stanislaus County Library\, and Stanislaus Library Foundation. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025yplreception/
LOCATION:Modesto Junior College West Campus\, 2201 Blue Gum Avenue\, Modesto\, CA\, 95358\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T035050Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Poet Laureate Send-Off Reading & Open Mic: Zoe Byron
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we bid a fond farewell to 2024-2025 Youth Poet Laureate Zoe Byron\, whose tenure as youth laureate is complete at the end of May. She’s the second ever Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate and has done a beautiful job representing the voice of youth through her poems. \nThis final reading will take place at the Oakdale Public Library\, 151 S. First Avenue\, Oakdale CA 95361. Please bring a poem to share at open mic! Reading starts at 1:00 p.m. in the Community Room just inside the front entrance. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025may17/
LOCATION:Oakdale Library\, 151 South First Avenue\, Oakdale\, CA\, 95361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250513T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
CREATED:20250421T230458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250424T225605Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tama Brisbane & Rosa Lane
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Rosa Lane (Maine\, East Bay) & Tama Brisbane (Stockton) \nDate: Tuesday\, May 13\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nLimited open mic; sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener & Stella Beratlis \n\nRosa Lane\nRosa Lane\, poet and architect\, was found to be the youngest girl to have built a house. She was 11 years old when she built her 1st home\, which is featured in a book entitled Making Ourselves at Home: Women Builders and Designers (Papier Mache Press\, 1995). But Lane’s primary love is poetry. She is the author of four poetry collections: Called Back (Tupelo Press\, 2024); Chouteau’s Chalk (University of Georgia Press\, 2019); Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2016); and Roots and Reckonings\, a chapbook published by Granite Press East under a grant from the Maine Arts Commission.  \nMost recently\, her work was selected as the Best of Poetry for the 2024 Geminga Prize\, winner of the 2023 Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Award\, runner-up for the 2023 River Heron Poetry Prize\, and named finalist for the 2023 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (Cork\, Ireland) and the 2023 Australian Book Review‘s Peter Porter Prize (Melbourne) among other awards.  \nLane’s latest poems have appeared in Catamaran\, Crosswinds\, Five Points\, Nimrod\, RHINO\, River Heron Review\, Southword\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. She splits her time between the North Bay and coastal Maine\, her native home where she lives with her wife. Website: www.rosalane.com \n  \nAbout CALLED BACK\n“Rosa Lane’s Called Back breaks through the membrane that separates us from Dickinson’s time. Here\, we enter Dickinson’s world brand new with the vigor of research re-imagined\, obsession expressed with prolific inventiveness and mounting urgency\, and language that astonishes in its apt\, abundant\, and irresistible embrace of sound. This is a book fearless in its approach and lavish in its accomplishment.” \n– Rebecca Kaiser Gibson\, author of The Promise of a Normal Life: A Novel \n  \nTama Brisbane\nTAMA L. BRISBANE is the City of Stockton’s Poet Laureate Emerita. She served four historic terms\nfrom 2015-2023\, presenting well over 300 times\, including the inauguration of the city’s first Black\nMayor\, Michael Tubbs. Her debut Laureate project helped engineer Stockton’s return to All-American\nCity status with an innovative spoken word presentation incorporating dozens of multigenerational\,\nmultiethnic voices. Her performance as Guest Poet at The King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church in\nAtlanta led Martin Luther King III to say to her\, “your words matter.” She remains in constant demand as\na keynote speaker and spoken word artist. \nTama is also President of With Our Words LLC\, and a Program Director with Concrete Development Inc.\nIn her capacity as a literary and performing arts consultant\, she develops curricula\, programs\, and events\nacross the United States and around the world. The impact of her words and her works have positively\nshifted creative and cultural landscapes in Stockton and beyond. \n“Mama T” is a published author\, a Susan B. Anthony Award Winner for Creative Arts\, a Black Women\nOrganized for Political Action Honoree\, a University of the Pacific Woman of Distinction\, an Action on\nBehalf of Children Honoree\, and a founding member of the National Black Poet Laureates Group. Her\ntireless efforts on behalf of youth – particularly youth of color and from marginalized communities – have\nbeen celebrated and recognized by both houses of the California Legislature\, by the United States House\nof Representatives\, and the United States Senate. \nTama is grateful to her Creator for her earthly assignment. She takes inspiration and guidance from her\ntwo favorite quotes. The first is from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “The salvation of humanity lies in the\nhands of the creatively maladjusted.” The second is attributed to an Eastern proverb: “If you sit on the\nbank of the river long enough\, you will see the body of your enemy float by.” \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/st2025may/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250503T110000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
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SUMMARY:Nature Poetry Reading and Walk: Dos Rios State Park
DESCRIPTION:NATURE POETRY READING AND WALK\nDOS RIOS STATE PARK\n\nSaturday\, May 3\, 2025 – 9:00-11:00 a.m.\nHosted by Sal Salerno\, member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and state park volunteer.\nShare your own nature poetry or poems on nature from other authors.  The reading (9:00 a.m.)will be at the tables by the parking lot\, followed by an optional hike (10:00) around the oxbow pond.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/dosriosmay25/
LOCATION:Dos Rios State Park\, 3559 Shiloh Rd\, Modesto\, CA\, 95358\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry in Nature,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T133000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
CREATED:20250126T015232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T002719Z
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SUMMARY:Stanislaus Cty Youth Poet Laureate Reading & Open Mic with Zoe Byron
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoe Byron\, 2024-2025 Youth Poet Laureate of Stanislaus County\, as she reads poems in celebration of National Poetry Month. Be sure to bring a poem or two to share at the Open Mic\, following Zoe’s reading. They don’t have to be poems you’ve written! Just come have some fun with us. \nAt the Salida Library\, April 19 at noon.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025yplapril/
LOCATION:Nick W. Blom Salida Regional Library Branch\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134848
CREATED:20250326T232749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T235712Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Soul Vang and Gary Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas & Soul Vang \nDate: Tuesday\, April 8\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event. Hosted by Gillian Wegener \nSOUL VANG\nSoul Vang is the author of three collections of poetry:  Of Tigers and Wars  (Sahtu Press\, 2024); Song of the Cluster Bomblet (HER Publisher\, 2024); and To Live Here (Imaginary Friend Press\, 2014). \nPoet\, educator\, and U.S. Army veteran\, Vang received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from California State University\, Fresno\, and is an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle (HAWC). \nVang’s writing has appeared in Academy of American Poets (poets.org)\, Water~Stone Review\, Abernathy Magazine\, Asian American Literary Review\, Fiction Attic Press\, In the Grove\, The Packinghouse Review\, Southeast Asia Globe\, and The New York Times\, among others. \nHis awards and honors include the 2014 Imaginary Friend Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Horizon Artist Award from the Fresno Arts Council. \nAbout TO LIVE HERE\nTo Live Here is a triumph: a pure and graceful portrait of the poet from Sky Mountain and the Dragon River\, as a young man in the United States Army\, and as a parent and poet in Fresno. Part emotional cartography and pure mastery of the craft\, this vital glimpse into the Hmong American experience is a heart\, a history\, and a gift of hard-earned wisdom.  Each poem is an artifact\, a piece of art\, and an important addition to American literature. This is poetry built to last.  You will not forget it. –Lee Herrick\, Fresno Poet Laureate \nGARY THOMAS\nGary Thomas grew up on a peach farm outside Empire\, California.  Prior to retirement\, he taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years and junior college English for seven.  His poems have been published in The Comstock Review\, MockingHeart Review\, Atticus Review\, River Heron Review\, Barzakh\, Blue Heron Review\, Split Rock Review\, Book of Matches\, and Hole in the Head Review\, among others\, in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets\, and in Tule Review 2024.  He is a founding member of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) and of the Stanislaus County writing group known as The Licensed Fools.  A full-length collection\, All the Connecting Lights\, was released in August 2022 from Finishing Line Press.  His latest poetry collection\, O Yes We Breathe\, was published in November 2024 by Manzanita Writers Press. \nABOUT O YES WE BREATHE: \nIn his new collection\, O Yes We Breathe\, Gary Thomas seamlessly weaves days-gone-by boyhood pastoral with the post-pandemic political and spiritual present. Moving between poems\, I was transfixed by the gentle music within these pages. “I am beholden to beauty that breathes any way it can-” As inhale\, Thomas’ keen eye for detail sharpens the blade of these poems on the sandstone grit of his father’s lessons on life. As exhale\, Thomas delivers poignant and tender incantations summoning the deeper\, higher self. “If all we ever have is what we trade invisibly in our hulls of flesh and fluidity\, we can learn to care for what we have. We can partake our full portion as family. We can breathe easy.” Each poem is a circle within itself “still working with some astonishment\,” rippling outward\, a whole world. This collection: “Let it light the corners.” \n-Kai Coggin\, Poet Laureate of Hot Springs\, Arkansas\, author of Mother of Other Kingdoms and Mining for Stardust
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-with-soul-vang-and-gary-thomas/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poets' Corner contest deadline
DESCRIPTION:The Parks\, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. \n\n\n\nEntries Due byFriday\, April 4\, 2025.  \n\n\n\nContest Winners\n\n\n\nWinners will be notified by email (or mail\, when email is unavailable.) \n\n\n\nPoets will be invited to read their winning poems on Sunday\, June 1\, 2025 at 1:00 P.M. at the McHenry Museum\, followed by light refreshments. \n\n\n\nWinning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf\, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet. \n\n\n\n\nWho May Enter\n\n\n\nRules\n\n\n\nSubmissions\n\n\n\nDeadline\n\n\n\n\nPoets of any age who reside in Stanislaus County \n\n\n\nGeneral: Any kind of poetry on any subject\, unrhymed or rhymed. Free verse and formal poetry is welcome. Group of three haiku accepted as one entry. \n\n\n\nSpecial: The Natural World — beautiful\, destructive\, sustaining. Write about nature — the wildness of it\, the beauty of it\, how it inspires and moves us\, or how it can destroy with thoughtless abandon.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-contest-deadline-2/
CATEGORIES:Contests,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bob Stanley and Dane Cervine with Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bob Stanley and Dane Cervine.  \nDate: Tuesday\, March 11\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event.  Hosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus & author Gillian Wegener.  \n\nBOB STANLEY\nBob Stanley studied poetry at Caltech and UCLA\, and he taught English and Creative Writing at Solano College\, Sac City College\, and Sac State before retiring in 2021. Sacramento’s Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012\, Bob has organized poetry events in California for many years. His collections include Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger (2009)\, Miracle Shine (2013)\, and Language Barrier (2024). Bob and his wife Joyce live in Sacramento and organize online poetry seminars that help support nonprofit organizations. \nBob’s most recent collection\, Language Barrier\, which is published by CW Books\, is available on the Random Lane Press website: randomlanepress.com \nABOUT LANGUAGE BARRIER\n“Language is no barrier to our enjoyment of the experiences Bob Stanley has distilled and decanted in these poems. His keen eye for detail takes us first on a passionate tour of China and then on a reminiscent journey through America\, described through the prism of many poetic forms. As he says\, ‘I could write with both care and abandon\,’ and he has done just that. Here you will find tragedies in miniature\, but also wonder at nature and the past. Through it all runs Stanley’s raconteurial charm\, a Poundian respect for the world of the senses\, and a tireless yearning for song: ‘keep the discord in the chord\, / sing what’s hard to sound soft.’ The result\, in Stanley’s own words\, is ‘peach-perfect.’”—Brad Buchanan \n  \nDANE CERVINE\nDane Cervine’s recent books of poetry include DEEP TRAVEL – At Home in the [Burning] World (Saddle Road Press)\, The World Is God’s Language (Sixteen Rivers Press)\, Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag)\, and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword (Saddle Road Press). Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich\, Tony Hoagland\, the Atlanta Review\, Caesura\, and been nominated for multiple Pushcarts. His work appears in The SUN\, the Hudson Review\, TriQuarterly\, Poetry Flash\, Catamaran\, Miramar\, Rattle\, Sycamore Review\, Pedestal Magazine\, among others. Dane lives in Santa Cruz\, California. Visit his website at: https://danecervine.typepad.com/ \nABOUT DEEP TRAVEL \n“I love the way [Dane has] taken the haibun back to its origins with Bashō—what a brilliant and perfectly executed form for [his] observations and musings. It’s such a rich book. Some of [the] haiku are so beautifully apt\, little marvels\, and one of my favorites is the one inspired by Ocean Vuong: \n      I am a book—of bone\, \n   raft and river \n That seems to me emblematic of the entire book and [Dane’s] intents—to offer insights and responses without any trace of self-importance\, and then to return to shore.   –Lynne Knight
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-bob-stanley-and-dane-cervine-with-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Feb. 11: Joseph Rios & Vielka Solano
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Vielka Solano and Joseph Rios \nDate: Tuesday\, February 11\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Orangeburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event.  Hosted by Gillian Wegener.  \n  \nVielka Solano\nBorn in Santiago de los Caballeros\, Dominican Republic\, Vielka Solano obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. After immigrating to Modesto\, California\, Vielka started working for Golden Valley Health Centers\, providing healthcare to the underserved\, rural community of Patterson\, California. Professionally and as a poet\, Vielka’s work focuses on social injustice\, the trauma of war\, and domestic violence. She is the founder of “Poesia y Arte Curando el Alma\,” an outreach program designed to give those who have suffered domestic violence a voice through the arts. She is the founder of Noche de Poesia and host of Grito de Mujer in Modesto. In 2019\, Vielka was among the recipients of the Outstanding Woman of the Year award from the Stanislaus County Commission for Women\, and has also received the Concilio Unsung Hero Award. Vielka is part of Influencers4Justice\, a program funded by Blue Shield of California Foundation. \nJoseph Rios\nJoseph Rios headshot  \nJoseph Rios was born in the San Joaquin Valley in 1987. He is a Xicano writer and the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations (Omnidawn\, 2017)\, winner of a 2018 American Book Award. A Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University\, Rios is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Community of Writers\, CantoMundo\, Letras Latinas\, and the California Arts Council.  Rios lives on Yokuts land in Fresno\, California\, where he served as poet laureate from 2022-2024. In 2024\, he received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. He is the founder of Doña Helen’s\, a poet’s residency at his grandparents’ longtime home in the San Joaquin Valley. \nAs an exuberant collection of relentless declamations against the existing economic order\, “Shadowboxing” contains fresh poems of elemental protest\, open reflections on politically motivated murders and disappearances\, and lyric proclamations praising the inherent superiority of collective identity over the relic of the personal. —Sonja James\, The Journal \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-feb-11-joseph-rios-vielka-solano/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:13th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival with Michael Meyerhofer: Pulling Up the Floorboards
DESCRIPTION:For poets and poetry lovers\, MoSt Poetry Festival is the place to be on Saturday\, February 1. \nJoin us as we meet fellow poets and create space to write new poems in supportive community. This event features a generative workshop led by author Michael Meyerhofer\, whose workshop Pulling Up the Floorboards: Two Radical Approaches to Revising Poems\, will guide you through the process of writing as well as revision. \nRSVP $40. Price includes continental breakfast and a light lunch. \nIf you are a poet with a publication\, feel free to bring your books to sell. Bring poetry books to exchange at our community table. \n  \nAbout Michael Meyerhofer\nMichael Meyerhofer is a contemporary poet and fantasy author who believes those two genres genuinely can get along. His fifth poetry book\, Ragged Eden\, was published by Glass Lyre Press. His fourth\, What To Do If You’re Buried Alive\, was originally published by Split Lip Press\, then recently re-released by the fine books at Doubleback Press (click here to download it for free!). His third\, Damnatio Memoriae (lit. “damned memory”)\, won the Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. His previous books are Leaving Iowa (winner of the Liam Rector First Book Award) and Blue Collar Eulogies (Steel Toe Books\, finalist for the Grub Street Book Prize). \nIn addition to his poetry books\, he has published two fantasy trilogies. His debut fantasy novel\, Wytchfire (Book I in the Dragonkin Trilogy)\, was published by Red Adept Publishing\, and went on to win the Whirling Prize and a Readers Choice nomination from Big Al’s Books and Pals. \nHe has also published six poetry chapbooks: To the Person Who Tends My Body (out now from Finishing Line Press)\, Pure Elysium (winner of the Palettes and Quills Chapbook Contest)\, The Clay-Shaper’s Husband (winner of the Codhill Press Chapbook Award)\, Real Courage (winner of the Terminus Magazine and Jeanne Duval Editions Poetry Chapbook Prize)\, The Right Madness of Beggars (winner of the Uccelli Press 3rd Annual Chapbook Competition)\, and Cardboard Urn (winner of the Copperdome Chapbook Contest). \nMichael has won the Marjorie J. Wilson Best Poem Contest\, the Laureate Prize for Poetry\, the James Wright Poetry Award\, and the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in Ploughshares\, North American Review\, Arts & Letters\, River Styx\, Quick Fiction\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, and other journals. \nHe received his BA from the University of Iowa and his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. An avid weightlifter\, medieval weapons collector\, and unabashed history nerd\, he currently lives\, teaches\, and inhabits various coffee shops around Fresno\, CA.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025festival/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry: The Meter Maids' 35th Anniversary Reading
DESCRIPTION:For our Second Tuesday Poetry reading in January\, help us celebrate one of the longest-running poetry groups in our region\, the Meter Maids! Reading starts at 7:00 pm at Bookish Modesto in Roseburg  Square.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2025jansecondtues/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Day of NYPC16: New Year's Poetry Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Keep an eye out for our New Year’s Poetry Challenge sign-ups! NYPC prompts begin Dec. 15. Sign-up form will be on MostPoetry.org homepage.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/nypc16/
CATEGORIES:NYPC
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