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SUMMARY:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop--Using Your Voice: Reading Poems Aloud to Share Their Essence
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop——Salida Library——June 13\, 2026——1:00 to 3:00 p.m. \n Using Your Voice:  Reading Poems Aloud to Share Their Essence \n  How do we let the language in a poem come alive and share its truths when we read it aloud?  How do we create an energy that lets people want to listen?  (Hint:  practice\, practice\, practice…). Join MoSt board member Gary Thomas for this generative workshop writing poetry drafts while exploring a poem’s voice and our voices——without using “Poet Voice.”  Intrigued?  Writing supplies will be provided\, but feel free to bring your favorite pen\, pad\, tablet\, and vocal warmups!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-summer-poetry-workshop-using-your-voice-reading-poems-aloud-to-share-their-essence/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Merced  poets Mai-Linh Hong and Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco. \nDate: Tuesday\, July 14\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PM\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. Event is free; refreshments and books available for purchase at Bookish! \n\nMAI-LINH HONG  \nMai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American refugee poet and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection\, Continental Drift\, won the 2025 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in July 2026. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Waxwing\, Ploughshares\, Copper Nickel\, Wildness\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Maine Review\, and elsewhere. She publishes essays on Asian American and refugee literature in scholarly journals and anthologies. A lifelong crafter\, she is coauthor and coeditor of The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making\, Radical Care\, and Racial Justice (University of California Press\, 2021). She teaches literature at the University of California\, Merced. \n  \nELIZABETH MCMUNN-TETANGCO \nElizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and co-edits One Sentence Poems and First Frost. She also works as a librarian at UC Merced. Her work has appeared in many online and print journals\, and her most recent book\, Salt Shaker Girls\, is available through Cuttlefish Books. 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026july14/
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 Poetry presents Poems That Found Us Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Poems That Found Us\nAn Open Mic Reading \nWhat poem has stayed with you? What lines do you return to again and again? \nJoin us for an evening where readers share poems by other poets—words that have meant something\, sparked something\, changed something. Each reader brings one poem– one voice and 3-4 minutes of space to read the poem. \nWhether you’re a longtime poetry lover or curious about the form\, whether you’ve found your poem already or you’re still looking\, you’re welcome to joins us. \nEvent free; books and refreshments available for purchase. \nAugust 11\, 2026 | 7:00 PM\nBookish Modesto
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-poetry-presents-poems-that-found-us-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry's Saturday at the Carnegie with featured readers Carolyn Miller & Lenore Myers
DESCRIPTION:Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry at the Carnegie readings on August 15 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway Avenue in Turlock\, CA.  Our featured poets are Sixteen Rivers Press poets Carolyn Miller and Lenore Myers (both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided. \nCarolyn Miller lives in San Francisco\, where she writes\, paints\, and works as a freelance book editor. Her books of poetry are After Cocteau and Light\, Moving\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press; Route 66 and Its Sorrows from Terrapin Books; and four limited-edition letterpress chapbooks from Protean Press. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac and have appeared in Smartish Pace\, SALT\, ONE ART\, The Southern Review\, and The Gettysburg Review\, among other journals\, as well as in several anthologies\, including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems: American Places. Her honors include the James Boatwright III Award for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. \n                                                                                                                                                          About Random Universe: “Carolyn Miller’s new poetry collection is a remarkably inclusive work\, with a playfulness in form and structure that feels wonderfully inventive. In these pages\, she takes on ekphrastic responses to Cy Twombly’s art\, “mistranslations” of Milosz and Tranströmer\, and her own translation of an ancient Egyptian text. She creates list-poems of “Lost Language” and “New Lines for Fortune Cookies” and writes about the lives of objects. And through it all\, she shows her remarkable talent for writing about sensuous joy\, joy that is earned\, though haunted by history and the poet’s place in it. I am glad to sit at the banquet table of her Random Universe and feast.” —Julia B. Levine\, author of Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction \nLENORE MYERS was born to artist parents who tried to live as semi-bohemians in the suburbs. When that fell apart\, the author spent her childhood and youth moving between different towns in Northern California. After spending more years moving around the United States and abroad\, she returned to the greater Bay Area to be near family while raising her son. Her chapbook\, Regards to Balthus\, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2023. Her poems and essays appear in a variety of literary journals. \n \nAbout Afterimages: “Conventional forms of ekphrasis are often little more than poetic descriptions of art. But there is nothing conventional about Lenore Myers’s Afterimages. The poems in this fabulous collection go beyond description\, beyond the page\, beyond the canvas\, beyond looking and seeing\, beyond interpretation and reflection\, beyond decoding. They participate in what we might call an expanded ekphrasis that takes the dialogue between art and poetry to new levels of interactivity. This is a book that asks big questions about how we perceive and process the acts of making art and engaging with its aftereffects. Art lasts. It lingers. In our heads and in our hearts.” —Dean Rader\, author of Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetrys-saturday-at-the-carnegie-with-featured-readers-carolyn-miller-lenore-myers/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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SUMMARY:MoSt Summer Workshop - Biographical Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Biographical poetry combines fact with imagination to depict an aspect or overview of an actual person’s life. In this MoSt Poetry Summer Workshop\, we’ll read and discuss examples of biographical poetry featuring historical figures and selected authors’ ancestors. Workshop participants will write first drafts in response to poetry prompts offered by facilitator Linda Scheller\, MoSt Poetry board member and the author of two collections of biographical poetry\, Fierce Light and Laurels. Emerging poets\, experienced writers\, and everyone in between is welcome\, and there’s no need to register in advance for this free workshop. Please join us Saturday\, August 22nd\, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida CA 95368.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-summer-workshop-biographical-poetry/
LOCATION:Salida Public Library\, 4835 Sisk Road\, Salida\, CA\, 95368\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday featuring Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloom
DESCRIPTION:  \nModesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Bay Area poets Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloom\nDate: Tuesday\, September 8\, 2026 Time: 7:00 pm; doors at 6:30 PMWhere: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopping center.Event is free. Refreshments\, books\, and cool bookstore merch available for purchase!\n\nJUDY HALEBSKY\n \nJudy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently\, Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Miller Williams Prize. Born and raised in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she holds an M.F.A. in English & Creative Writing from Mills College and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California\, Davis. Judy’s work has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Millay Colony\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her book Sky=Empty won the New Issues Prize\, and her chapbook  Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-Under-Forty Award from Sixteen Rivers Press. Tree Line was shortlisted for five awards including the Believer Poetry Award and the California Book Award. Along with  poetry\, Halebsky also writes articles\, essays\, plays\, and performs live improvised stories. \nAt Dominican University of California\, she teaches Japanese literature\, poetry\, and live storytelling. She lives in Berkeley with her nature guide and young daughter. \nAbout Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged):\nA translator’s notebook\, an almanac\, an ecological history\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) moves between multiple intersections and sign systems connected in a long glossary poem that serves as the book’s guide to what is lost\, erased\, or disrupted in transition both from experience to written word and from one language\, location\, and time period to another. \nThe role of the literary translator is to bring text from one language into another\, working to at once shift and retain the context of the original—from one alphabet to another\, one point in time to another. These are poems in homage to translation; they rely on concepts that can bridge time and space\, and as a result are as likely to find meaning in donuts or Zumba as they are to find it in the ocean. Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) finds reasons for hope not in how the world should be\, but in how it has always been. \n“Halebsky likes the unleashed energy of poetry\, and in the poems gathered here\, she delivers.” —Billy Collins \n“Under the spell of Bashō’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely its own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look good. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, and make noise. Only a poet this generous\, this wise\, and this rich in language could have made this splendid thing. Read this book and you will wish you were her neighbor.”\n—Katy Peterson\, author of A Piece of Good News \nNICHOLE TURNBLOOM\n \nNichole Turnbloom is the author of Out of the Unexpected: Poems with Sappho. She has an MFA in poetry and completed a facilitation training through the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her poems have been published in Acumen\, California Quarterly\, The Branches\, Garlic Press Lit\, Luna Luna Magazine\, Bear Review\, IWWG’s Anthology Write Forward among other venues. Her work is informed by nearly twenty years of providing somatic therapy to those affected by complex trauma and delves into themes of spiritual fragmentation\, identity and longing. \nAbout OUT OF THE UNEXPECTED: POEMS WITH SAPPHO\nIn Out of the Unexpected\, Nichole Turnbloom reaches into the fragments of Sappho—poet\, musician\, teacher\, the Tenth Muse—and weaves a luminous dialogue between past and present\, voice and silence\, myth and memory. \nDrawing from lost lines and broken songs\, these poems are a testament to what remains\, what is remade\, and what longs to be spoken. Here\, the resonance of Sappho’s lyricism mingles with the raw pulse of modern grief\, rage\, tenderness\, and survival. Through correspondence\, reimagining\, and reflection\, Turnbloom invites readers to step into a timeless conversation—one stitched with longing\, beauty\, and unyielding truth. \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026september8/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival - Come to the Table! A Bilingual Poetry Workshop with Juan Luzuriaga
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Table! Join us in person for the 14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival\, a bilingual poetry conference featuring poet Juan Luzuriaga \n\n\n\n14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival: Come to the Table with Juan Luzuriaga\nRegistration and continental breakfast 9:30-10:00 a.m.\nWorkshop 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.\nLight lunch served \nGet ready for an amazing morning and afternoon at the 14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival\, for a bilingual conference where Spanish and English will be celebrated in poetry. \nGuest poet/facilitator: Juan Luzuriaga \nJoin us in person to experience the powerful words and unique style of Juan 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 book Cotopax Whispers\, a poetry collection exploring migration\, memory\, identity\, language\, and ancestry–was just published by Blue Light Press. \nWhether you’re a poetry lover or just curious\, this generative workshop will inspire you to write poems and celebrate language. \nDon’t miss out on this chance to connect with the local poetry scene and enjoy being in community with other writers. \nTickets $40; Eventbrite fee applies
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/14th-annual-most-poetry-festival-come-to-the-table-a-bilingual-poetry-workshop-with-juan-luzuriaga/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Linda Scheller and Lisa Rosenberg
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 13 as MoSt Poetry presents featured poets Linda Scheller and Lisa Rosenberg\, both with new collections published by The Word Works press. \n7:00 p.m. (6:30 doors) at Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto CA\nEvent free; books\, beverages\, and merch available for purchase. \nLINDA SCHELLER\nLinda Scheller is a San Joaquin Valley educator and author whose poetry\, plays\, and book reviews appear in Slipstream\, Colorado Review\, Terrain\, Notre Dame Review\, and Poetry East\, among many other publications. She serves as vice president of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, letters chair for National League of American Pen Women’s Modesto branch\, and co-\nproducer of KCBP Community Radio’s Arts of the San Joaquin Valley and Women of the Valley. \nHonors include Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations\, Catherine Cushman Leach Poetry Awards\, and California Federation of Chaparral Poets Prizes. Linda is the author of Fierce Light\, published by FutureCycle Press in 2017; Wind & Children\, published by Main Street Rag in 2022\, and The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street\, selected by Ariel Francisco Henriquez Cos for The\nWord Works 2026 Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Laurels\, a collection of biographical poetry and prose honoring 38 historic women\, is forthcoming from Prickly Pear Publishing. \nAbout The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street\n“A wizard at revelatory domestic portraiture and telltale family incidents\, Scheller reconstructs home and examines\, with artfulness and agility\, her German American heritage in an intrepid quest for compassion\, clarity\, and authentic identity.”  Cyrus Cassels\, 2021 Texas Poet Laureate\, author of Lorca to the Umpteenth Power \n“This powerful memoir-in-verse charts the generational haunting of this brave poet’s lineage. From a family tragedy to secrets\, depression\, and recovery\, Scheller has done the difficult work of engaging her ghosts. This is an honest\, sobering\, revelatory book.” Lee Herrick\, California Poet Laureate\, author of In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems \n“The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street is filled with stark\, realistic\, personal yet quite universal poems that paint an intimate portrait of identity\, interpersonal struggles\, loss\, family\, and the ever-present need for empathy.” John Sibley Williams\, author of As One Fire Consumes Another \nLISA ROSENBERG\nLisa Rosenberg is a poet\, essayist\, and engineer-physicist who worked in the US space program. Rooted in lifelong immersion in arts and sciences\, her writing has been recognized by a Leonardo@Djerassi Residency\, Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. In 2017-2 \n018\, she served as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, California\, and began offering public lectures\, essays\, and workshops that center systems and process skills essential to integrative thinking. Rosenberg is the author of the poetry collections Weeds and Stars (2026\, The Word Works\, Hilary Tham Capital Collection) and A Different Physics (2018\, Red Mountain Press\, winner of the American Legacy Book Award)\, as well as essays spanning memoir\, satire\, science\, and travel. Her poems explore interrelatedness across disparate aspects of nature and culture\, from the fantastic to the mundane\, the subatomic to the celestial\, often enacting scientific thinking in structure and mode\, independent of theme. Her literary publications and features include The Marginalian\, POETRY\, The Common\, The Threepenny Review\, Plume\, and many anthologies. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and part time in Ilia\, Greece. \nAbout Weeds and Stars\n  \n\nThe rhythmically grounded\, formally varied poems of Lisa Rosenberg’s Weeds and Stars invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies that surround us\, whether fantastic or ordinary\, subatomic or celestial in scale: odes to Pi and snowflake formation; meditations on urchins and orbital mechanics\, and an interwoven series of uncanny prose poems for resilient plants. This second collection finds lyric voice in the human and nonhuman alike\, bringing into deeper bloom what Robert Pinsky hailed in Rosenberg’s debut: “an informed vision that is social as well as scientific\, personal as well as historical.” Weeds and Stars engages with the tropes and expectations of Western lyric poetry\, and the speaker that emerges is by turns wry\, off-kilter\, and playful\, inviting us to reconsider agency and relation—feather to fire\, plants to politics\, Old Glory to accretion disks. \n“…altogether ravishing…the finest reverie of reality since Diane Ackerman’s The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral\, with the feeling-tone of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and the sensibility of astronomer-poet Rebecca Elson’s A Responsibility to Awe.” —Maria Popova \n“In an age of velocity and vanishing attention\, Lisa Rosenberg’s poems offer a lucid countercurrent…remaking what we think we know of belonging\, of wildness\, of worth.” — Katherine Larson \n“Let us praise the self-seeders\, these sustainable poems\, these marvelous metaphors.” — Indran Amirthanayagam
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2026oct/
LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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