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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. 
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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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