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SUMMARY:Poetry on Saturday Reading featuring Connie Post and Francesca Bell
DESCRIPTION:MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday Reading\nAugust 12\, 2023  2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California)\nJoin host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On \nSaturday readings in person on August 12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie \nArts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Livermore poet laureate\nemeritus Connie Post and Marin County poet laureate Francesca Bell \n(both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time after the \nfeatured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light\nrefreshments will be provided.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConnie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California. Her \nwork has appeared in Calyx\, Comstock Review\, One\, Cold Mountain \nReview\, Slipstream\, Spillway\, River Styx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, \nValparaiso Poetry Review\, and Verse Daily. She has two full-length \nbooks from Glass Lyre Press\, entitled Floodwater and Prime Meridian.\nHer most recent book\, Between Twilight\, is from New York Quarterly \nbooks\, and she has a recent chapbook\, Broken Metronome\, about her\nbrother’s journey with Parkinson’s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain\, a finalist for the Washington \nState Book Award and the Julie Suk Award\, and What Small Sound\,\, and is\n\n\n\nthe translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here\, all from Red Hen\nPress. Her work appears in B O D Y\, ELLE\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, \nNew England Review\, North American Review\, Mid-American Review\, and \nRattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx\, the translation editor \nof Los Angeles Review\, and the poet laureate of Marin County. She lives \nwith her family in Novato\, California.\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading-featuring-connie-post-and-francesca-bell/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Molly Fisk & Ingrid Keriotis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a  poetry reading featuring Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis with an open mic to follow. \nRSVP with the link below. \n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Aug 8\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-yorzMjG9Nu0FHzh0Uy7TVpsE81x9PiAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-reading-with-molly-fisk-ingrid-keriotis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:July Book Club: FELON by Reginald Dwayne Betts
DESCRIPTION:Please join at the Modesto Library to discuss Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Copies of the book are available at the check-out desk of the Modesto Library\, courtesy of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Facilitated by Tina Marie Curiel-Vega.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/july-book-club-felon-by-reginald-dwayne-betts/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Free Poetry Workshop--Playing with our ABC's: Poetry Using the Alphabet as Structure
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the Modesto Library Auditorium for “Playing with our ABC’s: Poetry Using the Alphabet as Structure\,” a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Gillian Wegener. This workshop will focus on using the alphabet as structure for new poems. We’ll try our hand at abecedarians\, observational alphabet poems\, and dictionary poems. Walk-ins welcome.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/free-poetry-workshop-at-the-modesto-library/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García\, hosted by Stella Beratlis \nDate: Tuesday\, July 11\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom–RSVP required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYld-CrrzIiE9f-nC5FZF4UnTu3ZCbULvXC. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nOpen mic: 3 mins per poet\, follows the featured readers. Open mic sign-up.  \nAideed Medina\nAideed Medina is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet\, award winning spoken word artist and a playwright. She is a California Naturalist\, and practices “flor y canto” as part of her poetic process and exploration of California’s natural history. Her work has appeared in Fresno State’s Club Austral Literary Magazine\, Chicano Writers and Artists Association Journal\, La Bloga\, Poets Responding\, Art of the Commune\, Split This Rock\, Nueva York Poetry Review\, Di-Liio Revista Literaria\, Artivista Anthology\, as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix\, Fresno Grand Opera\, and co-writer of Eclectic Collective plays: Encounter Intuitive and Artista Invisible. Her debut collection\, 31 Hummingbird\, was just published earlier this year by Xingao Press. Aideed has a forthcoming full-length poetry collection\, Segmented Bodies\, from Prickly Pear Press coming later this year. In 2024\, the Editorial Universitaria of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Mexico will be publishing her work poetry in a series that pairs Chicano-Mexican poets. \nAbout 31 Hummingbird\n31 Hummingbird | A suite of poems is the debut collection by Chicana poet Aideed Medina. 31 Hummingbird chronicles a human relationship\, and ascends with the flights of hummingbirds. The hummingbird is a unique being and a metaphor of the racing of hearts\, whose beating never fluctuates whether in mid-flight\, hovering\, being rejected\, ejected\, accepted or dive-bombing for the nectars and sugared waters of the embraces. \nAideed Medina’s hummingbird poems are cross-pollinators: She brushes our tongues and eyes with the poetics of aerodynamic words. \nHer debut collection of humming-poems is an invitation to risk flying on the wings of feathered lightning. Up\, down\, across\, forward\, backward\, fluttering like thunder and lightning\, 31 Hummingbird invites close and patient reading\, waiting for the hummingbird to appear and disappear in the flash of a few lines. \nRamón García\nRamón García is the author of two books of poetry The Chronicles (Red Hen Press\, 2015) and Other Countries (What Books Press\, 2010)\, and a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013).  The Chronicles was a finalist for the Latino International Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English in 2016. \nGarcía has published poetry\, fiction and scholarly work in a variety of journals\,  anthologies and museum catalogs.  His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry anthology\, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature\, The American Journal of Poetry\, Los Angeles Review\, and Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas.  He has contributed to the art work and projects of various visual artists\, including Berta Jottar\, Harry Gamboa Jr.\, Susan Silton\, David John Attyah\, and Sandra de la Loza. \n Ramón García was born in Colima\, Mexico and grew up in Modesto\, California.  He has a B.A. in World Literature from University of California\, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California\, San Diego. He is a Professor at California State University\, Northridge and lives in downtown Los Angeles. \nAbout The Chronicles\n“Ramón García’s The Chronicles is wondrously deceptive. At first we may think we know the folkloric stuff dreams are made of\, but soon one is inside a unique world where\, through language and ritual\, an edgy authority speaks through metaphor\, chronicling the underbelly of the spoken and unspoken\, and at times even the unspeakable. The Chronicles unearths things we didn’t know we knew—surprising\, new\, clear-eyed twists and turns. This collection of urgent poems\, partly woven from stories inherited\, sings through the past to the present and future.”—Yusef Komunyakaa
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the Modesto Library’s Makerspace on Saturday\, June 24\, 2023 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for “Questions\, Lies\, & Repetition\,” a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Linda Scheller. Participants will read\, discuss\, and write poetry in this free\, in-person workshop open to the public. All ages are welcome\, and no prior poetry experience is required!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center as we present poets Lynn Hansen\, Richard Robbins\, and Thomas Mitchell in a free on-line poetry reading hosted by Gillian Wegener.\n\nABOUT LYNN HANSEN\nLynn M. Hansen is a retired Modesto Junior College professor of marine biology. A member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle\, Orinda\, CA; MoSt Poetry Center\, Modesto; and National League of American Pen Women\, her work reflects her sense of place and the art of storytelling. In 2013 a collection of her poems was published by Quercus Review Press entitled Flicker: Poems. She is currently writing an historical novel about her maternal grandmother\, Mernie Daisy Lewis\, 1882-1963.\n\nABOUT RICHARD ROBBINS\nRichard Robbins was raised in California and Montana\, taught in Minnesota for many years\, and recently moved back west to Oregon. Robbins has received awards or residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Poetry Society of America\, the Anderson Center\, Willapa Bay AiR\, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers. From 1986 to 2014\, he directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato\, which the Minnesota Humanities Commission called\, “the premier small-town reading series in the country.”\n“Part balm\, part prayer\, part revelation\, the quietly moving and incantatory poems in Richard Robbins’s The Oratory of All Souls reveal a poetic voice that is masterful\, adept\, and profoundly compelling. These supple poems unfold seamlessly\, with the muscular music of moving water: elegant\, clear\, fierce. Robbins has the gaze of a painter\, with a gorgeous insistence on image\, line\, shadow\, and light.” —Lee Ann Roripaugh\, author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50\n\nABOUT THOMAS MITCHELL\nThomas Mitchell is a shrewd and trusted observer of the natural world. In this third book\, Where We Arrive\, Mitchell listens to “the counsel of water” and moves “from one silence to another.” And as such\, he spies “a red-tailed hawk drifting in absolute loneliness.” More often than not\, Mitchell is a poet of intimate feelings. He remarks time and again upon various stars and moons\, towhees and starlings. His poetry is a poetry bent on reimagining the world.\n—Thomas Aslin\, author of Salvage and A Moon Over Wings\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Jun 13\, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuqvrDkrHN0lTrVUQlB77MvaiI83W4zMAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-lynn-hansen-richard-robbins-and-thomas-mitchell/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poet's Corner Reading/Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us at McHenry Museum on Sunday\, June 4 at 1 pm for a reading featuring the winners of the 2023 Poet’s Corner Contest\, sponsored by the City of Modesto. \nFor contest information\, please visit the City of Modesto Poet’s Corner page. (Contest info will be updated soon.)
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading-reception/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Other Events,Readings,Youth Poetry
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230513T160000
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SUMMARY:2023 Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:AILEEN JAFFA YOUNG POETS CONTEST \nCo-sponsored by MoSt (Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center) and the National League of American Penwomen (NLAPW)\, Modesto chapter. \nThis contest is offered as a means of encouraging young writers throughout Stanislaus County and as a way to remember poet Aileen Jaffa\, the founding President of the Poets of the San Joaquin and member of the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. \nAwards and Recognition \nFirst\, second and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards from the MoSt Poetry Center. Prizes are: First Place $25\, Second Place $15\, Third Place $10. In addition\, the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will award a $60 Aileen Jaffa Outstanding Poem award in each of two combined categories\, Categories 1 and 2\, and Categories 3 and 4. \nThe current president of the NLAPW Modesto chapter will present the awards\, and the winning poems will be read at an Awards Ceremony at 2 P.M. on Saturday May 13\, 2023 at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock. \nFor more information\, contact info@mostpoetry.org \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2023-aileen-jaffa-young-poets-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Submission Opportunities,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bryan Medina\, Joseph Rios\, Michael Meyerhofer\, and Kenneth Chacón
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Four Fresno Poets: Bryan Medina\, Joseph Rios\, Michael Meyerhofer\, and Kenneth Chacón. \nHosted by Gillian Wegener\nDate: Tuesday\, May 9\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PDT\non Zoom–RSVP required:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuceuuqDIjG9D7nH7UsdTrO5qDQlW6f7Lp \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nBryan Medina\n Bryan Medina has been a fixture in the Fresno literary community for over 25 years. A former student of California Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, his poetry has graced stages in the Bay Area\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded the Inner Ear Poetry Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Bryan has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations for contributions to Fresno’s rich artistic and cultural heritage and has been featured as one of the four “Fresno Poets” from writer Nick Belardes’s Distinguished Valley Writers series as well as appeared in journals such as Poetry\, Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In The Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs and was an Honorable Mention in the ‘06 Larry Levis Poetry Prize. He is a graduate of Fresno Pacific University and teaches Special Education. \nJoseph Rios\nBorn in Clovis\, Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn)\, winner of the American Book Award; he was named one of the Notable Debut Poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. His poems can be found at Poem A Day\, Huizache\, The Rumpus\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and on Metro buses and trains in Los Angeles. He was recently named a Stegner Fellow by Stanford University. He lives in Fresno.  \nMichael Meyerhofer\nMichael Meyerhofer’s fifth book\, Ragged Eden\, was published by Glass Lyre Press. He has been the startled recipient of fourteen national writing awards including the James Wright Poetry Award\, the Liam Rector First Book Award\, the Brick Road Poetry Book Prize\, and several chapbook prizes. His work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry\, Rattle\, Brevity\, Ploughshares\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, and other journals. He is also the author of a fantasy series.  \nKennth Chacón\nKenneth Chacón is the author of The Cholo Who Said Nothing & Other Poems(Turning Point\, 2017). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Palette Poetry\, Blackbird\, and Huizache among others. Chacón is a native of Fresno\, California and teaches English at Fresno City College. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/may2023/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Book Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday\, April 24 in person at the downtown Modesto library. We’ll be reading Katie Farris’ book Standing in the Forest of Being Alive\, available at the library reference desk to borrow after April 4th.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230422T140000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate National Poetry Month\, MoSt Poetry will have a reading featuring poets who serve on our non-profit’s board followed by an open mic. Please join us at 1:00 p.m. PT on Saturday\, April 22\, 2023 in the Stanislaus County Library. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring 2023 Sixteen Rivers Press authors Matthew M. Monte & Joseph Zaccardi
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to feature Matthew M. Monte and Joseph Zaccardi for our Second Tuesday reading on April 11\, 2023.  \nPlease RSVP to get Zoom link for reading:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodeGrrzkjHdfBfZG3JJnhhyxHl8NFvfZ8 \nHosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus Stella Beratlis; open mic follows featured poets. (Open mic sign-up.) \nMATTHEW MONTE\nMatthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco\, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa\, where he studied botany. His fiction\, poetry\, book reviews\, music reviews\, journalism\, and essays have appeared in Sidestream\, Creosote Journal\, Transfer\, Ashcan Magazine\, The Snackbar Collective\, iNaturalist\, Panorama\, and the Poets 11 Anthologies (2014 and 2016). He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. His debut collection\, The Case of the Six-Sided Dream\, won the 2017 Blue Light Poetry Prize. \nhttps://www.matthew-monte.com/ \nAll Tomorrow’s Train Rides is an odyssey of reading and poetic memory. What begins as a single day in a worker’s commute morphs into a Möbius loop of literary history and cultural consciousness. “Where do we read and whom?” is a question that drives the nostalgia\, dread\, and humor of this collection. Riddled with geographical coordinates and commentary\, this book of interdependent poems explores the idea of “living in translation” and fuses the formal aesthetics of cartography to our relationships with people\, places\, books\, and the natural world. \nAbout ALL TOMORROW’S TRAIN RIDES \nThrough poetic cartography\, Matthew Monte disembarks from a search of what ultimately is borderless. The topography of a land\, of home\, extending from San Francisco to Tepeyac to Downe places us in a position to feel the transit of time. We travel to where Monte coordinates the lingering as well as the vanishing points of a city. With a lush lexicon\, he fuses historical allusions with aspects of spirituality to expound upon what each train ride reveals; in turn\, around the next bend\, we keep coming back. This is a ride to catch.  \n—Thea Matthews\, author of Unearth [The Flowers] \nMatthew Monte writes in the specifics of speech and memory\, pulling the reader along his urban coastline of abandoned dreams and possible destinations. This extraordinary book is filled with the noise and silence of the everyday and is underscored throughout with beauty\, examination\, and compassion.  \nRead these fine poems and encounter some part of your own unvoiced life. \n—Beau Beausoleil\, author of A Glyphic House: New and Selected Poems 1976–2019 \nJOSEPH ZACCARDI\nJoseph Zaccardi is the author of five books of poetry including\, most recently\, The Weight of Bodily Touches from Kelsay Books. His poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review\, Poetry East\, Atlanta Review\, Rattle\, and Salamander\, among other journals. Zaccardi joined the Marin Poetry Center in 1996 and served as a board member from 2010 to 2013 and as the editor of the Marin Poetry Center Anthology in 2010–2012. Appointed poet laureate of Marin County\, California\, he served from 2013 to 2015. A member of the LGBTQ community\, Zaccardi believes that to write a single poem is a minor miracle. He lives in Fairfax\, California\, with his husband\, Dave\, and their dog. \n  \nIn his afterword to Songbirds of the Nine Rivers\, Joseph Zaccardi recounts how\, during his time as a Navy corpsman in the Vietnam War\, he found refuge in a volume of ancient Chinese and Vietnamese poetry. His study\, now lifelong\, has borne fruit in this present volume\, the ancients at his shoulder. At once a scholarly work\, an homage\, and a striking volume of new poems—not translations\, not “versions”— this book provides readers with a multifaceted lens\, forward\, backward\, yet always present—and always\, even in grief\, exultant. \nAbout SONGBIRDS OF THE NINE RIVERS \nThe beauty of this book is in the lyric surprise\, the parabolic of the Tang. If there are such things as true works of art\, it is these poems that blend the physical and the eternal\, the seen and the unseen. Zaccardi’s words draw from the uncanniness of nature in a startling way and reveal to us a sometimes violent\, often beautiful\, but always necessary world. A work such as Songbirds of the Nine Rivers\,derived from both earth and heaven\, is rare indeed.  \n––Ann Robinson\, author of Stone Window \nHistorical\, philosophical\, and alchemical\, these poems reenact the cosmos of the classical poet-ancestors of China and Vietnam through the awakened mind of an American poet. Joseph Zaccardi’s poetry enlarges human empathy and connects separated worlds. Listen to these songs! Every note is clear\, fresh\, and alive. \n-–Jie Tian\, author of Native Songs and Migration Songs \nIt is said that to hear music it is best to close your eyes\, and that to hear poetry it is best to read the poems aloud. Joseph Zaccardi’s poetry is music to the ear. He lets us feel what he feels\, lets us touch what he touches. His voice is song; his sounds are prayers. They wash over me\, the way the sea washes over the sound of itself. \n––Mai Sato\, Yokohama College of Art and Design
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-2023-sixteen-rivers-press-authors-matthew-m-monte-joseph-zaccardi/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Saturday in the Park With Poetry
DESCRIPTION:As April is National Poetry Month\, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is offering an outdoors event on Saturday\, April 8\, 2023 from noon to 1:30 p.m. The location is Davis Community Park at 2701 College Avenue in Modesto. The host will be Salvatore Salerno\, poet laureate of Modesto. Participants can bring a bag lunch and read from their most recent favorite book of poetry.  They are also invited to bring other poetry books to donate and trade with other participants. We will meet at the picnic tables near the parking lot.  If the tables are otherwise occupied\, be prepared by bringing a lawn chair\, and we can gather elsewhere beneath the welcoming shade of a tree.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/saturday-in-the-park-with-poetry-2/
LOCATION:Davis Park\, 2701 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deadline Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest
DESCRIPTION:AILEEN JAFFA YOUNG POETS CONTEST \nCo-sponsored by MoSt (Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center) and the National League of American Penwomen (NLAPW)\, Modesto chapter. \nThis contest is offered as a means of encouraging young writers throughout Stanislaus County and as a way to remember poet Aileen Jaffa\, the founding President of the Poets of the San Joaquin and member of the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. \nEligibility and Deadline \nAny student enrolled in a Stanislaus County school\, grades K through 12\, is eligible to submit up to 3 entries\, at $1 per entry. Each entry\, except for typing\, must be the original creative work of the student\, although parents or teachers may provide encouragement.  Postmark deadline for submissions is April 3\, 2023. \n  \nDetails at Aileen Jaffa Youth Poetry Contest.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-april-3-aileen-jaffa-youth-contest/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Deadline: City of Modesto Poet's Corner Contest
DESCRIPTION:The Parks\, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. Please view the Poet’s Corner Contest Submission Form for full details. \nSubmissions\nPoems will not be returned after the contest\, so entrants should keep copies of their work. \nElectronic Submissions\n\nInclude one cover page with poet’s name\, address\, email and title(s) of poem(s). If poet is a student\, then indicate grade\, school and name of teacher on the cover page.\nSubmit cover page and poem/poems in one file in .doc\, .docx or .pdf format to the Poets Corner Contest Submission Email.\n\nMailed Submissions\nSubmit one copy of each poem along with one entry form for each poet to one of the following locations: \n\nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, C/O Poet’s Corner Contest\, PO Box 578940\, Modesto\, CA\, 95353\nMcHenry Museum\, C/O Poet’s Corner Contest\,1402 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\n\nPrinted Entry Form and Contest Rules\nMay be picked up at the following locations: \n\nParks\, Recreation & Neighborhoods Department Office – 1010 Tenth Street Place\, Suite 4400\nMcHenry Museum – 1402 I Street\nMcHenry Mansion Visitor’s Center and Gift Shop – 924 15th Street\nStanislaus County Library – 1500 I Street\n\nDeadline\nEntries must be postmarked by Friday\, March 24\, 2023 or submitted electronically by 11:59 pm on Friday\, March 24\, 2023.  \nRequirements\nThe contest is open to all Stanislaus County residents. \nCategories\n\nGeneral: Any kind of poetry on any subject\, rhymed or unrhymed.  Free verse and form welcome.  Group of three haiku accepted as one entry.\nSpecial: “Renewal: How do we restore and renew ourselves and our community after years of pandemic? How do we individually and collectively allow ourselves the space to mourn and feel what has been lost while holding optimism and being open to possibility? What might renewal look like in nature\, ourselves\, our families\, and our communities? What does it feel like to be hopeful\, imagine a better world\, and create the future?”\n\nEntry Limitations\n\nTwo poems per person\nEach poem may not exceed 32 lines\nAll entries must be typed on standard 8.5″ x 11″ paper\, double-spaced\, in standard font\nEntries must be unpublished at the time of submission\nEntries may be two of one category or one of each category\nAt the top of each poem\, indicate contest category and\, if under the age of 18\, grade in school\nDo not put name of poet on any submitted poem: put name on cover page or entry form only\nNo plagiarism or offensive language.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContest Winners\nContest winners will be notified by email (or mail\, when email is unavailable).  Poets will be invited to read their winning poems on Sunday\, June 4\, 2023 at 1:00 PM 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-for-poets-corner-contest-march-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Contests,Submission Opportunities,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Rooja Mohassessey & Farnaz Fatemi
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to feature Rooja Mohassessy and Farnaz Fatemi for our Second Tuesday reading in March. \nPlease RSVP to get Zoom link for reading:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucOmqrzIrGdb0wNX9dF4OQqZv7IRjNEOT \nHosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus Stella Beratlis; open mic follows featured poets. (Open mic sign-up.) \nRooja Mohassessy\nRooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator living in Northern California. She is a MacDowell fellow and a graduate of the Pacific University MFA program. Her first poetry collection\, When Your Sky Runs Into Mine\, was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Poetry Prize and was published by Elixir Press earlier this year. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Poet Lore\, RHINO Poetry\, Southern Humanities Review\, CALYX Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Cream City Review\, The Rumpus\, The Adroit Journal\, Bare Life Review\, Potomac Review\, The Florida Review\, New Letters\, International Literary Quarterly\, and elsewhere. \nABOUT WHEN YOUR SKY RUNS INTO MINE\n“When Your Sky Runs Into Mine is a stunning debut collection … about personal revolution\, the turning toward art in times of suffering\, the claiming of a rich cultural heritage.”—Ellen Bass\, author of Indigo \n“Rooja Mohassessy’s debut collection belies any notion of a first book. It is a work of expansive vision and formal achievement\, sounding an assured and unforgettable voice in poetry. “ —Shara McCallum\, author of No Ruined Stone \nMohassessy’s intellectual power and penchant for image stand out in beautiful ways in this debut collection. She displays a painterly use of color\, texture\, and image that reflects her striking awareness of the physical world.  Her capacity for efficient and elegant syntax and her fierce intelligence when dealing with political subjects and subjects of the female body in this world\, constitute a most welcome addition to American poetry.  This is a very impressive debut collection by a most promising poet.” —Kwame Dawes\, author of UnHistory with John Kinsella \nFarnaz Fatemi\nFarnaz Fatemi\, an Iranian American poet and writer\, and Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate for 2023 & 2024\, is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective. She was formerly a writing instructor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her book\, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر\, was published in September 2022. It won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize\, selected by Tracy K. Smith\, and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly.  Some of her poems and lyric essays appear in Poem-a-Day (Poets.org)\, Tab Journal\, Pedestal Review\, Nowruz Journal\, Grist Journal and Tupelo Quarterly. \nABOUT SISTER TONGUE\n“Delicious\, provocative\, and incredibly wise\, Farnaz Fatemi transcends years and oceans in these pages. Like gripping a cup and string to the ear\, Sister Tongue is a hopeful missive\, proof of words and their witnesses\, an atlas of the wonder of becoming.”—T Kira Madden\, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls \n“Poet Farnaz Fatemi is the soulful Iranian American truth-teller and wonder-wanderer we’ve needed to hear. In Farsi\, in English\, in Tehran\, or California\, these poems cherish the miracle of connectedness by weaving family threads through time and space—through sisters\, mothers\, grandmothers\, through a changed and changing world. Sister Tongue is a luscious love letter to language(s)\, spoken in a trusting\, intimate voice. The poet recognizes the twinned solace of silence and song\, of sister and self. Loss takes its seat\, as it does\, at the table\, and Fatemi\, with tea\, family history\, powerful memory\, and a new/old tongue\, inscribes it alongside the depths of beauty and joy in this radiant book of passionate understanding.”—Brenda Shaughnessy\, author of The Octopus Museum \n“I praise the present tense of these poems for its tensile strength\, its ability to hold the struggle that is happening in the past\, present\, and future. The way it speaks of the perpetual\, of what it is to be tongue-tied in the presence of one’s other self. ‘Language is geological\,’ this speaker tells us\, ‘a process of accumulation\, and accretion accompanied by landslides.’ In setting out to speak the language of her blood\, she finds herself at once estranged and embraced. Thrilled and defeated. What to do with such a natural disaster? These poems persist in their attempts to bridge worlds\, offering hope of a complex and hard-won reconciliation\, one richly crafted line at a time. In the words of Fatemi\, ‘I want the foreigner in me / to meet the foreigner in me.’”—Danusha Laméris\, author of Bonfire Opera“ \nSister Tongue\, Farnaz Fatemi’s debut poetry collection\, transports us to a place where language must stretch to fit the largeness of human love and longing\, and in doing so\, fills the absences we did not even know we harbored. Sister Tongue begins to say what many of us already know—that borders and countries are too limiting to define us. Her poems offer us both a reckoning and a salve.”—Persis M. Karim\, chair of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-featuring-rooja-mohassessey-farnaz-fatemi/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Deadline for STANISLAUS COUNTY YOUTH POET LAUREATE Contest
DESCRIPTION:Please check our YOUTH POET LAUREATE Contest page for all the details plus application. \nApplications for the 2023 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate open January 1\, 2023! \n\nAre you a teen? Are you SUPER into poetry? We want to hear from you! \nIntroducing the Inaugural process to choose a Youth Poet Laureate for Stanislaus County!  \nTeens ages 15–19 who reside or go to school in Stanislaus County may submit up to five original works of poetry demonstrating their commitment to the mastery of the art and craft of poetry. \nRULES:  \n● Poems may be in any style or form. \n● You must submit at least 3 poems but no more than five poems. \n● Poems must be the original creative work of the poet. Plagiarism will result in immediate disqualification from this and all future Youth Poet Laureate opportunities. \n● All poems must be typed. Single or double spaced\, 12 pt Times New Roman preferred unless the poem’s form dictates the format (example: blackout poetry\, erasures\, visual poetry\, spoken word\, etc.) \n● Brief artist statement/biography describing why you want to be a Youth Poet Laureate. Who inspired you to write poetry? \n● No gratuitous violence or sexual content. No hate speech. No slander. \nSubmission Dates:  \nSUBMIT APPLICATION\nJANUARY 1 – FEBRUARY 27\, 2023.\nEmail PDF application and poem attachment per instructions on application. \n  \nIF SELECTED\, POET:  \n\nwill receive $500\nserve a one-year term from June 1\, 2023 – May 31\, 2024\nmust be available for public appearances throughout Stanislaus County\nmust either live in or be enrolled in a school in Stanislaus County at time of submission and for the entire term if chosen\nmust attest that their work is solely their own original creative work\nwill work with a mentor from the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center; display their poems in the Young Adult section of the Modesto Library and elsewhere; and will mentor others;\nwill write at least 3 poems during their term and present these at events to be decided\n\n\n\n\nwill be asked to participate in at least two poetry events in the community focusing on engaging other youth in poetry. Examples of these possible Youth Poet Laureate activities are as follows:\n\nIf they’d like to create a poetry-related project of their own\, the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will offer assistance/support;\nfeature at a reading as part of the Second Tuesday Reading Series at the end of their term; and/or\nwrite a poem for the City of Modesto’s Poet’s Corner event.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/deadline-for-stanislaus-county-youth-poet-laureate-contest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Contests,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tamer Mostafa & Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Tamer Mostafa and Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, Feb. 14\,  2023\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link\nOpen  Mic Signup: https://forms.gle/d51j2WqGmBrzrTLT9. 3 mins per reader\, please.  \nTAMER MOSTAFA \nTamer Said Mostafa (pronouns: he/him/his)\, a radical social worker by day and poet by night\, is a Stockton\, California native whose poetry has appeared in over twenty literary journals and magazines\, including Confrontation\, Zone 3\, and Freezeray. Tamer is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee whose debut full-length book of poetry\, Where Will I Find America? was released in August\, 2021 and is available online. He is also the author of Which Way Will the Water Drag Our Bodies\, published in 2020.Mostafa is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at University of California\, Davis where he won the Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg Contest for Poetry. As an Arab-American Muslim\, Tamer lives life through spirituality\, community work\, and the music of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. \nCAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS  \nCarol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills and is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts\, MFA in Writing program\, where she received a Merit Scholarship. She is an eleven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and an eight-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 she won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest\, with her manuscript\, Before I Go to Sleep. In 2018 her book In the Making of Goodbyes was nominated for The CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry\, and her poem A Mall in California took 2nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. In 2019 her chapbook An Ode to Hope in the Midst of Pandemonium was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and Epitaph for the Beloved was nominated for The Northern California Book Award. Her latest collection of poems\, Alice in Ruby Slippers\, was short-listed for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and awarded honorable mention in the Poetry category. You can find out more about Carol Lynn’s work by visiting her website: https://www.clgrellaspoetry.com/ \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2651/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry On Saturday: Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve
DESCRIPTION:Carnegie Arts Center  \n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, California \n            Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday readings in person on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock.  Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve from the Bay Area\, followed by our Open Mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nAndrena Zawinski is a veteran teacher of writing Jack Hirschman called “an activist poet whose works open up paths of struggle\, celebration\, revolutionary victories.”  About her fourth full-length poetry collection\, Born Under the Influence\, Mary Mackey lauds the poems as “tough\, smart\, beautifully crafted” and Michael Simms says\, “we are lucky to have this poet among us.”  Her work has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, CQ\, Plainsongs\, Progressive Magazine\, Rattle\, and more\, and is widely anthologized\, including Crossing Class\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter\, Women Write Resistance\, and others with awards from Akron Art Museum\, International Human Rights Creators of Justice\, Ventura County Poetry Project\, Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize\, Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize\, and PEN Oakland Award.  She was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, PA\, but has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about Andrena’s latest book\, visit:   https://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/zawinski.html \n \nBorn and raised in New England\, Susie Meserve is the author of the poetry collection Little Prayers\, which won a Blue Light Award from Blue Light Press and was published in 2018.  She is also the author of the chapbook Faith.  Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, Elle\, The Washington Post\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, Gulf Coast\, Salamander\, and more.  She lives in northern California with her family. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-saturday-reading/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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SUMMARY:11th Annual Poetry Festival with Amanda Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) will host the 11th Annual Poetry Festival on February 4\, 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church\, 1528 Oakdale Road\, Modesto\, California. The event will run from 9 am to 1:30 pm.    \nFacilitated by Amanda Moore\, an awarded-winning\, nationally recognized poet from the Bay Area\, attendees will be led through a program titled At the Starting Line\, A Workshop on Poetic Opening\, which promises to be very helpful for both new and experienced poets.    \nTickets ($40 each) for the event are available through Eventbrite.  Attendance is limited to the first 44 people who purchase tickets. Coffee\, tea\, and table snacks will be provided\, and attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. As in the past\, the festival will include an author’s table and camaraderie with poets and poetry aficionados from throughout Northern California.  Eventbrite link for tickets: https://most2023fest.eventbrite.com  \nAbout Our Workshop Facilitator\, Amanda Moore   \nAmanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry\, Requeening\, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets\, ZZYZVA\, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting\, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is the recipient of writing awards\, residencies\, and fellowships from The Brown Handler Residency\, In Cahoots\, The Writers Grotto\, The Writing Salon\, Brush Creek Arts Foundation\, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.    \nPoetry Co-editor at Women’s Voices for Change and a reader at VIDA Review and INCH\, Amanda is a high school English teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter. https://amandapmoore.com. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/11th-annual-poetry-festival-with-amanda-moore/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Lee Herrick's Scar & Flower
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Modesto Library to discuss Lee’s collection Scar and Flower. Copies available at the service desk at the downtown library. You don’t need to have read the book to join us!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/book-discussion-lee-herricks-scar-flower/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Brad Buchanan and Susan  Cohen\, on Tuesday\, January 10\, 2023 at 7:00 p\,m PST.  Hosted by Stella Beratlis\, city of Modesto poet laureate emeritus. \nRSVP for Zoom link \nOpen  Mic Signup: https://forms.gle/d51j2WqGmBrzrTLT9. 3 minutes per reader\, please.  \nSUSAN COHEN\nSusan Cohen is a journalist and poet in Berkeley\, California. She has been a newspaper reporter\, a contributing writer to the Washington Post Magazine\, and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California. In 2013\, she earned an MFA in poetry. Her third full-length book of poems\, Democracy of Fire\, was released from Broadstone Books on September 30\, 2022; it was a finalist for the Washington Prize\, Wilder Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize\,  \nSusan’s second book of poems\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, won the 2015 David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. It also was a runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize\, finalist for the May Swenson Award\, Blue Lynx Prize\, and Richard Snyder Prize. \nSusan’s first full-length book of poems\, Throat Singing\, was published in 2012 by Cherry Grove Collections. She also wrote two chapbooks: Backstroking (Unfinished Monument Press; 2005)\, which won the Acorn-Rukeyser Prize; and Finding the Sweet Spot (Finishing Line Press; 2009). \nAbout Democracy of Fire\nA thread of elegy runs through Democracy of Fire\, Susan Cohen’s wise and wonderful new poetry collection. Tenderly\, precisely\, these poems record a litany of the world’s ongoing losses: “Greenland’s ice sheet pooling like tears into the ocean\,” elephants\, beetles\, democracies\, “languages left behind like cloaks\,” and “our own bones interred without ceremony.” Cohen shows us our interconnectedness\, a reminder of both the beauty and value of what’s at stake. Yet\, paradoxically\, this vision makes Democracy of Fire a deeply comforting book. Of the planet Mercury she writes\, “…a pinprick ablaze for longer than our species will exist…Between us and it\, there’s a distance far beyond air\, and beyond despair.” \n—Ellen Bass\, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets & author of Indigo \n  \nBrad Buchanan\nBrad Buchanan’s writings have appeared in nearly 200 journals\, and he has also published 4 book-length collections of poetry: his latest\, CHIMERA\, was just published in November 2022. The Miracle Shirker (Poets Corner Press\, 2005)\, Swimming the Mirror: Poems for My Daughter (Roan Press\, 2008)\, and The Scars\, Aligned: A Cancer Narrative (Finishing Line Press\, 2019) as well as two academic books. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Sacramento State University.  He was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma in February 2015\, and underwent a stem cell transplant in 2016\, which involved temporary vision loss and disability\, as well as an ongoing illness: chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease. \nAbout CHIMERA\nBrad Buchanan‘s painfully stunning new collection\, CHIMERA\, continues his explorations of the monstrosities that cancer can create in the lives of human beings as they struggle through invasive testing\, treatments\, recovery\, and the hope of being cancer-free that stem cell transplants offer. Buchanan…documents\, reports\, questions\, disputes both himself and the world cancer and chimerism force him to confront. He helps us see and feel in a most visceral way what it means—for him\, for us\, for those he loves and those who love him—to be engaged in this struggle. “Cancer is not your standard bully\, / it will not back down if confronted / with sufficiently brave defiance. / It doesn’t have a nervous system / to mobilize or sympathize. / The only martial arts it knows/ are patience\, stealth and resilience.” These poems will surprise you with their tenacity\, empathy and ingenious language. \n–Susan Kelly-DeWitt\, author of SPIDER SEASON (Cold River Press\, 2016) and GRAVITATIONAL TUG (Main Street Rag Publishing\, 2020) \n  \nRegister in advance for this reading:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkc-uopzIiE9CmsJAOxm1JzNtUdnMXYXqN \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/jan2023stp/
LOCATION:CA
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:20221213T190000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Beverly Burch and Linda Marie Prather
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry\, featuring Beverly Burch and Linda Marie Prather. Hosted by Modesto poet laureate emeritus Stella Beratlis.  \nDate: Tuesday\, Dec 13\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link \nOpen mic follows featured readers. Please sign up and plan to read for about 3 minutes. \nBeverly Burch\nBeverly Burch’s new book\, Leave Me a Little Want\, was published by Terrapin Books this year. Her last book\, Latter Days of Eve (BkMk Press)\, won the John Ciardi Prize. How a Mirage Works (Sixteen Rivers) was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award. Her first book\, Sweet to Burn (2004)\, won the Gival Poetry Prize and Lambda Literary Award. Beverly’s poems and prose can be found in 32 Poems\, Gulf Coast\, Southern Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Los Angeles Review\, New England Review\, Barrow Street\, Smartish Pace\, and Grist. She also has two psychoanalytic books on women’s sexual and gender relations: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois) and Other Women (Columbia University). Beverly grew up in Atlanta\, GA and has lived many years in Oakland\, CA with her wife.  \nAbout Leave Me a Little Want\n“I love this book and its urgent attention to language and form in the “treacherous province” of our current times. Burch never turns away from the coexistence of the beautiful and the bloody\, the tedious and the risky\, and so I not only trust her\, but feel jolted awake.” \n-Julia Levine\, Ordinary Psalms \n\nLinda Maria Prather \nLinda Marie Prather has five published chapbooks\, the latest Searching Shadows\, Finding Shade\, (Cactus Wren Press). Unforced Rhythms\, (Finishing Line Press) won 3rd place in the NLAPW 2014 Letters Competition. Her full-length book\, Summer Song\, was published in 2016 by Pen Women Press. She edits for Song of The San Joaquin and is a member of National League of American Pen Women\, in Arts and Letters. \nHer poetry appears in More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. Linda’s published\nwidely and received prizes from Penumbra\, Poets’ Dinner Contest\, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle. She has won\nthe Golden Pegasus Award and has been featured poet twice for the Stanislaus Connections poetry column  “A Gathering of Voices.” She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2561/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221126T200000
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SUMMARY:Poetry on the Spot at ModShop
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will be back in action with Poetry on the Spot at Saturday’s Mod Shop Handmade Market. Poets from MoSt will write you a poem right there on the spot using words you choose. We’ll be at Mistlin Gallery  on J Street  between 10th and 11th streets from 2:00 to 8:00 on Saturday\, November 26.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/pots2022/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Poetry on the Spot
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stella Beratlis":MAILTO:stellab@mostpoetry.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221121T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221121T193000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 21\, 2022     6:30-7:30 p.m.       \nStanislaus County Library Makerspace    1500 I Street\, Modesto \n The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón \nJoin host Gary Thomas for a discussion of The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón\, the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.  Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast\, The Slowdown.  Her new book of poetry\, The Hurting Kind\, is out now from Milkweed Editions.  She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. \n5 copies of the book are available (while they last) to check out at the Modesto Library (1500 I Street.). \n An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman\, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner\, National Book Award finalist\, and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.  \n “I have always been too sensitive\, a weeper / from a long line of weepers\,” writes Limón.  “I am the hurting kind.”  What does it mean to be the hurting kind?  To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys\, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world?  To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own\, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? \n \n“Ada Limón’s sixth and latest collection is a testament to the power of sensitivity. As with her previous award-winning books\, The Carrying and Bright Dead Things\, these poems are acutely aware of the natural world. And Limón has a knack for acknowledging nature’s little mysteries in order to fully capture its history and abundance. For her\, evidence of poetry is everywhere. She connects big ideas – fear\, isolation\, even death – with little details\, like field sparrows\, a box of matches or “the body moving / freely.” Above all\, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender.” NPR\, Books We Love \n“”Poetry readers have come to expect greatness from Limón\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award\, and that is exactly what the author offers in The Hurting Kind. . . . My most brief statement on the quality of this collection is this: If you have space to teach just one book of poetry\, make it The Hurting Kind. . . . What Limón manages with The Hurting Kind is rare; the poems are at once highly specific and yet broadly relatable\, both technically masterful and easily comprehensible. In sum\, this collection works equally well for both the avid poetry enthusiast and the reluctant reader. If I was going to try and convince someone that poetry is our most important verbal art\, I would start with The Hurting Kind. . . . The Hurting Kind is a collection that begs to be shared\, and one that will inevitably show signs of wear as readers carry it with them for weeks at a time.”—The Poetry Question \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221119T150000
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SUMMARY:Carnegie Poetry on Saturday Series  2:00 p.m. November 19\, 2022 featuring Bryan Medina & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Saturday\, November 19\, 2022 at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock\, CA  from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for a poetry reading by Bryan Medina and Linda Scheller with an open mic following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \n        S. Bryan Medina is a former student of U. S. poet laureate emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera\, and his poetry has graced stages in the San Francisco BayArea\, Los Angeles\, Las Vegas\, and Kansas City. He founded both the Inner Ear Open Mic and the Beat Down  Slam as a way to free poetry from the confines of academic institutions\, making it accessible to all. Medina\, a long-time art activist\, has been awarded two City of Fresno Commendations\, including the 2014 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award\, for contributions to the rich artistic and cultural heritage in Fresno. He is the author of More than Soil\, Less than Sand and his work has appeared in journals such as Flies\, Cockroaches\, and Poets\, In the Grove\, The San Joaquin Review\, Jubilee\, and Invisible Memoirs\, among others. In 2017 Medina was named Fresno County’s third Poet Laureate\, serving a distinguished two-year term reaching out to the community featuring readings\, school and university visits\, writing workshops\, and meetings with business and political leaders throughout the state of California.  Medina is a Desert Storm/Gulf War veteran and a graduate of Fresno Pacific University.\n\n\n        Linda Scheller is a retired public elementary school teacher and the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce\nLight (FutureCycle Press\, 2017) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag\, 2022) as well as a chapbook\, Halcyon. Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are widely published in journals and anthologies including Colorado Review\, Arkana\, Gyroscope Review\, Plays\, On the Seawall\, Sugar House Review\, Poetry East\, and The Wild Word. She volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio\, tutors adults in literacy and English language acquisition\, and serves on the boards of MoSt Poetry and the Stanislaus County Arts Council. Ms. Scheller is a member of the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women and sings with Modesto Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Her website is lindascheller.com.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/carnegie-poetry-on-saturday-series-200-p-m-november-19-2022-featuring-bryan-medina-linda-scheller/
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:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T082438
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SUMMARY:Kiss Me Like You Voted: Election Night Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world\, wrote the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821 in the essay\, “A Defence of Poetry.” By this\, he meant that poetry reflects the real world and that the poet’s imagination is the faculty  which allows us to perceive beauty in the world–thereby helping create civilization itself. Poets are makers of civilization\, no less–hence\, poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. \nWith this in mind\, we invite you to the Election Day installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series. The November 8 reading is a virtual open mic around the questions: How do we reckon the promise of this country with its violent past and present? How can we love when so much is on the line? How can we NOT love? \nOpen mic 15 poets max; 3 minutes per person–sign up to read at https://forms.gle/izdLKgzryo1uFzwLA \nRSVP for Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscOqhpjgrGNZ9calCIAyo_9KPb7XWmAy_ \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2022nov8/
LOCATION:CA
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:20221011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221011T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells & James Fujinami Moore
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore  \nJoin us as we welcome two tremendous poets to our Second Tuesday Poetry series: State of Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore of Los Angeles. Both have new collections published by Four Way Books. We’re pleased to welcome these poets to our Central Valley poetry community.  Open mic follows featured poets\, 3 min per poet\, please. Sign up for open mic. \nHosted by Stella Beratlis\nDate: Tuesday\, October 11\, 2022\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nRSVP for Zoom link \nCyrus Cassells\nA 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, Cyrus Cassells has also been a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and a Lannan Literary Award. His first book\, The Mud Actor\, was a 1981 National Poetry Series Selection. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. His Catalan translations\, Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. He was nominated for a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his cultural criticism for The Washington Spectator. My Gingerbread Shakespeare\, his first novel\, and his seventh book of poems\, Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? were published in 2021. In 2021\, he was appointed Texas poet laureate\, and in 2022\, Cassells received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and his eighth collection The World That the Shooter Left Us was published by Four Way Press. He lives in Austin and is a tenured full professor at Texas State University. \nAbout The World That the Shooter Left Us\n“Wrestling in the clutches of fury and mourning\, Cassells—long a master purveyor of both the splendor and contradictions of the natural world\, as well as the voluptuary elements of the self—turns his consummate clear-eyed gaze to a bleak and burgeoning brutality that threatens our days\, siphons the spirit and challenges the realm of the poet. The World the Shooter Left Us is a world defined by stark boundaries and firepower\, chalk outlines\, rampant injustices and histories tainted with each and every version of sin. Cassells\, a wily and relentless witness\, doesn’t tiptoe through the maelstrom or allow the reader to turn away. Instead\, he becomes the writer that this moment needs—one with the lyrical skill and decades of experience to craft this revelatory guidebook for our grief.” —Patricia Smith  \n“The World That the Shooter Left Us is poetry of conscience at its most crafted and compassionate. The title poem is an elegy for a beloved Latino lawyer\, murdered by a white assailant over a parking space\, that forces us to contemplate all we have lost in a society bristling with guns\, rage and bigotry. However\, the title of another poem captures the essence of this eloquent collection: “The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency.” In the face of plague after plague—COVID-19\, lethal police violence\, kids in cages\, the end of asylum\, sexual exploitation\, Trumpism—these poems show us a way out\, a vision of transcendence through reclamation of our humanity. Cyrus Cassells demonstrates\, through the resplendent decency of these poems\, that the world the shooter left us is not only a world of death\, but life\, not only bullets\, but poetry.”\n–Martin Espada \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore\nJames Fujinami Moore’s debut collection indecent hours was published by Four Way Books in 2022. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow\, a Bread Loaf Work-Study Fellow\, and the Four Way Books Fellow at the Frost Place Conference in Poetry. He received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nAbout indecent hours \n“James Fujinami Moore’s powerful poems keep intimacy active in their measure and perspectives\, working through a wide range of public and private histories. They close in and zoom out with an intensity of tonal scale\, one that binds an elegance steeped in experience with all the irreducible cuts and marks the poems invoke and depict. Those cuts and marks may be rendered with a surrealist’s touch or a realist’s blunt recall\, as needed\, and with a precise understanding of the various physical and emotive overlapping roles the glimpse\, the conversation\, the story\, the touch\, and the brawl each retain. indecent hours is a terrific book.”  -Anselm Berrigan \n“James Fujinami Moore’s poems possess the uncanny capacity to be at once unsettled and unnervingly lucid. It is this particular power that fuels his searing investigations—into the intimate relationships between representation and violence\, into how families and countries take shape around those who are missing. Moore’s poems are urgent\, achingly searching\, unflinching. Here is a poet who moves as he needs to—flipping foreground and background\, rewinding and replaying\, refusing the distortions of fear.”  –Mary Syzbist  \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvduuqqD4rGdz7w9BSPEysavrDAG4cdbBq\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/oct2022/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Workshop with Kai Coggin
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet Kai Coggin will facilitate a Zoom workshop and read her poetry Saturday\, October 1\, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT. \n$20 per person; please register at https://mostfall2022.eventbrite.com\nto receive Zoom link.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKai Coggin (she/her) is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Mining for Stardust (FlowerSong Press 2021) and INCANDESCENT (Sibling Rivalry Press 2019). She is a queer woman of color who thinks Black Lives Matter\, a teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council and Arkansas Learning Through the Arts\, and host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry. \nRecently  awarded the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award\, named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times\, and nominated as Hot Springs Woman of the Year\, her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize\, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015\, and Best of the Net 2016\, 2018\, 2021— awarded in 2022. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY\, Best of the Net\, Cultural Weekly\, SOLSTICE\,  Bellevue Literary Review\, TAB\, Entropy\, SWWIM\, Split This Rock\, Sinister Wisdom\, Lavender Review\, Tupelo Press\, West Trestle Review\, and elsewhere. Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review\, and on the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Writing Guild. \nShe lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park\, Arkansas.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-workshop-with-kai-coggin/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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