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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Rooja Mohassessy & Tamer Said Mostafa
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is proud to present Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Rooja Mohassessy\, author of When Your Sky Runs Into Mine\, and Tamer Mostafa\, author of Where Will I Find America? Hosted by Gillian Wegener.  \nDate: Tuesday\, June 11\, 2024\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: The Artist Lab at Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto CA 95354 \nOpen mic following featured poets (3 min per poet); sign up at the event.  \nROOJA MOHASSESSY\nRooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator. She is a MacDowell Fellow and an MFA graduate of Pacific University\, Oregon. Her ekphrastic debut collection When Your Sky Runs Into Mine (Feb 2023) was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Poetry Award. Rooja has been featured on NPR\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and other poetry podcasts and radio stations. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Poet Lore\, RHINO Poetry\, Southern Humanities Review\, CALYX Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Cream City Review\, The Adroit Journal\, New Letters\, The Rumpus\, The Journal\, Verse Daily\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. Her work is also anthologized in California Fire & Water\, A Climate Crisis Anthology\, and Colossus: Body\, a compilation of writings by Californians writing on the themes of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. Rooja is an editorial assistant at the journal Prairie Schooner. \nAbout WHEN YOUR SKY RUNS INTO MINE\n “Rooja Mohassessy’s debut collection\, WHEN YOUR SKY RUNS INTO MINE\, 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. Ekphrasis is at the core of Mohassessy’s poetics\, resplendent in her responses to works of visual art and in the richly textured images she creates with intricate diction and syntax.”  \n-Shara McCallum  \nTAMER SAID MOSTAFA\nTamer Said Mostafa is an Arab-American\, Muslim poet and storyteller from Stockton\, California. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines such as Zone 3\, Confrontation\, Glass: A Journal of Poetry\, and Freezeray among others. Tamer is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee\, and a graduate of the creative writing program at University of California\, Davis where he won the Lois Ann Lattin Rosenberg Contest for Poetry. His debut\, full length book of poetry\, Where Will I Find America? was released in Summer 2021. Tamer lives life through spirituality\, community work\, and the music of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. \n  \nAbout WHERE WILL I FIND AMERICA?\n“In the debut collection Where Will I Find America?\, Tamer Said Mostafa renders narratives of childhood to adulthood demanding an interrogation of what it means to be a person of other. From body image to intimacy\, these poems beautifully weave inextricable culture and place. Islamic traditions provide the framework for extraordinary love of family as well as witnessing of self as each poem shelters the narrative bravely. We too want to see the past with eloquent bravery\, knowing that its truth is not the same as what we imagine. This collection’s lyrical and visual evocations do no harm in the telling about the harmed. Empathy and love counter the brutality of social order and familial dislocation. As Mostafa brings mind and body into these compassionate poems\, he reveals a hopeful awakening.” \n-Rhony Bhopla
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LOCATION:The Artist Lab at Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
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SUMMARY:MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop #1--Classicontempo: Classic and Contemporary Poems of Love\, Irritation\, Birds\, & More
DESCRIPTION:FREE!  Saturday\, June 15\, 1:00-3:00 p.m. at Modesto Library Auditorium \nJoin MoSt board member Gary Thomas as we discuss–and write to–“ancient” and “modern” poems that deal with common themes such as love\, annoyance\, (in)justice\, and the mashups we encounter between customary and cutting-edge visions of life. Writing supplies will be provided\, but feel free to bring your favorite pen\, pad\, and/or tablet!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-summer-poetry-workshop-1-classicontempo-classic-and-contemporary-poems-of-love-irritation-birds-more/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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