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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry on Saturday featuring Christina Lloyd & Alice Templeton
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry On Saturday Reading\nNovember 9\, 2024\n2:00 p.m. PST\nCarnegie Arts Center\n250 North Broadway Avenue\, Turlock\, CA\n\n     Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s (MoSt’s) Poetry On Saturday in-person readings on November 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue) in Turlock. Our featured poets are Christina Lloyd and Alice Templeton\, both with new books out from Sixteen Rivers Press. An Open Mic time will follow the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will be provided.\n\n\n     Born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco\, Christina Lloyd holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in a wide variety of publications\, including Canadian Woman Studies\, EcoTheo\, Hive\, Meniscus\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry Ireland\, Poet Lore\, The North\, and SWWIM. Women Twice Removed\, published by Sixteen Rivers Press\, is her first full-length collection. She lives in San Francisco. \n \n     Alice Templeton’s poems and short stories have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review\, Bellingham Review\, Calyx\, North American Review\, Poetry\, and other publications. Her work was a finalist for the 2020 Neruda Prize from Nimrod\, and her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press. She is also the author of a critical book on Adrienne Rich’s poetics and scholarly articles on contemporary poetics\, cultural criticism\, and literary theory. Originally from Tennessee\, Templeton lives in Point Richmond\, California.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-christina-lloyd-alice-templeton/
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 featuring John Shoptaw and Murray Silverstein
DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is excited to present Second Tuesday Poetry with featured poets Murray Silverstein and John Shoptaw.  \nDate: Tuesday\, November 12\, 2024\nTime: 7:00 pm PST\nWhere: Artist Lab at the Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto CA 95354  \nJoin us at this reading featuring noted East Bay poets John Shoptaw and Murray Silverstein\, with open mic following our guest poets. Featured poets will be reading from their new collections\, which will be available for purchase and signing.  \nMurray Silverstein\nRed Studio is Murray Silverstein’s third book of poems. His first collection\, Any Old Wolf (2007)\, was the winner of the Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal for Poetry and was followed by Master of Leaves (2014). His poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, The MacGuffin\, The Brooklyn Review\, West Marin Review\, Plainsongs\, Nimrod\, The Dreaming Machine\, and Spillway. \nThe senior editor for two Sixteen Rivers anthologies\, America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (2018)\, which received the Independent Publisher’s Silver Medal for anthologies\, and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010)\, he also directs the Sixteen Rivers Press Youth Poetry Project\, which has published three chapbooks by teen poets: Anthems (2022)\, Dear Earth (2023)\, and Our Own Light (2024). A practicing architect for forty years and coauthor of four books on architecture\, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press)\, Silverstein lives in Oakland\, California. \nJohn Shoptaw\nJohn Shoptaw\, a leading voice in ecopoetics\, is widely published in literary journals and magazines\, including Arion\, Kenyon Review\, The New Yorker\, and Poetry.  His first poetry collection\, Times Beach (2015)\, won the Notre Dame Review Book Prize and the Northern California Book Award in Poetry.  Shoptaw is the author of On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery’s Poetry\, the libretto for Eric Sawyer’s opera Our American Cousin (Boston Modern Orchestra Project)\, and a number of essays on poetry and poetics\, including “Why Ecopoetry?” (Poetry). He teaches in the UC Berkeley English Department.  \nFrom the Foreword to Near Earth Objects\, by Jenny O’Dell:  \nIn Near-Earth Object\, Shoptaw explores the interactions\, sometimes dark and sometimes joyful\, between humans and the non-human natural world. Resisting the human exceptionalism that in its many forms can block imaginative access to the world\, Shoptaw entertains the perspectives of a host of others: a cricket\, a bat\, a nuthatch\, a carnival bear\, a tree’s shade\, cherubim\, an asteroid\, and Earth herself. \nPatrick Davis\, publisher at Unbound Edition Press\, said\, “John’s remarkable work is formally attuned\, entirely accessible\, and urgently relevant. His ecopoetics\, on full display in Near-Earth Object\, propel a vital voice for our challenging times.”
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2024novsecondtues/
LOCATION:The Artist Lab at Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Second Tuesday
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SUMMARY:Poetry Book Club: In Praise of Late Wonder by Lee Herrick
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the latest edition of the MoSt Poetry Book Club\, when we’ll be discussing California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick’s excellent new collection\, In Praise of Late Wonder! We’ll meet on Sunday\, November 17th\, 2024 at 2pm\, at Panera Bread\, 2103 McHenry Avenue\, in Modesto. \nIn the meantime\, pick up a copy of Lee’s book\, which is now available at the front desk of the Modesto Library. Tom Portwood will lead a discussion about the collection that afternoon. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2024novbookclub/
LOCATION:Panera\, 2103 McHenry A\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Open Mic featuring Youth Poet Laureate Zoe Byron
DESCRIPTION:Please join Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and Stanislaus County Library at a poetry reading and open mic at the Oakdale Library\, featuring Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Zoe Byron. Bring a poem—your own or a favorite–to share at open mic. Reading starts at 12:00; free and open to all. \nZoe\, a student at Oakdale High School\, was selected by a panel of judges to serve as the county’s second Youth Poet Laureate. The Youth Poet Laureate program is a partnership between MoSt Poetry\, Stanislaus County Library\, SCOE\, and MJC’s School of Language Arts & Education. For more info: ypl@mostpoetry.org.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/2024novypl/
LOCATION:Oakdale Library\, 151 South First Avenue\, Oakdale\, CA\, 95361\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Youth Poet Laureate,Youth Poetry
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SUMMARY:Reading/Open Mic & Book Launch for Gary Thomas's O YES WE BREATHE
DESCRIPTION:O Yes We Breathe is a collection of earthborn connections\, a ragged inquiry into our commonalities and yearnings as humans. Divided into four sections (Hard News & Kittens in Trees\, If Memory Serves\, Liaisons Ordinaires\, and Ready to Step Into Waves) these poems address “current” events\, the acts of recollection and reminiscence\, mortal-to-mortal relationships\, and unexpected spiritual encounters and connections. Embedded and resting at rock bottom in this landscape of dusty farms\, remnants from news and history\, summonings of childhood scraps and souvenirs\, and arguments for and within love is the awareness that each of us matters simply because of what we all share. \n<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>\nGary Thomas writes with a gentility that belies razor-sharp observations of the human condition\, and the humans conditioned to excuse\, ignore and embrace it. O Yes We Breathe is stuffed full of poems posing questions. Will you reminisce\, nodding in agreement\, despair and clench in anger\, gasp at a sudden nuance\, squirm with uncomfortable recognition? Yeah\, you will. But mostly you’ll just marvel…\n——Tama L. Brisbane\, Literary Arts Consultant\, Stockton Poet Laureate Emerita \nIn his new collection\, O Yes We Breathe\, Gary Thomas seamlessly weaves days-gone-by boyhood pastoral with the post-pandemic political and spiritual present. Moving between poems\, I was transfixed by the gentle music within these pages. “I am beholden to beauty that breathes any way it can—” As inhale\, Thomas’ keen eye for detail sharpens the blade of these poems on the sandstone grit of his father’s lessons on life. As exhale\, Thomas delivers poignant and tender incantations summoning the deeper\, higher self. “If all we ever have is what we trade invisibly in our hulls of flesh and fluidity\, we can learn to care for what we have. We can partake our full portion as family. We can breathe easy.” Each poem is a circle within itself “still working with some astonishment\,” rippling outward\, a whole world. This collection: “Let it light the corners.”\n——Kai Coggin\, Poet Laureate of Hot Springs\, Arkansas\, author of Mother of Other Kingdoms and Mining for Stardust \nO Yes We Breathe chronicles a poet’s joyful boyhood and explores\, with wonder\, a changing world. A farmer’s son\, Thomas writes with precision and imagination about nature and human nature through the lens of a “sandstone fireplace\,” “ten prayer things\,” or the miracles of everyday life. He writes\, “I wish we were us again instead of our shadows. I wish/ you were the weather and here. I wish I was abundance.” This is a large-hearted poet\, a book of abundance\, a pleasure through and through.\n——Lee Herrick\, California Poet Laureate\, author of In Praise of Late Wonder:\nNew and Selected Poems and Scar and Flower \n  \nGary Thomas grew up on a peach farm outside Empire\, California. Prior to retirement\, he taught eighth grade language arts for thirty-one years and junior college English for seven. He has presented poetry workshops for literary organizations\, festivals\, and conferences. His poems have been published or accepted for publication in The Comstock Review\, MockingHeart Review\, Atticus Review\, River Heron Review\, Barzakh\, Blue Heron Review\, Split Rock Review\, Book of Matches\, Hole in the Head Review\, and The Banyan Review among others\, and in the anthology More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. He is a founding member of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) and of the Stanislaus County writing group known as The Licensed Fools. A full-length collection\, All the Connecting Lights\, was released in August 2022 from Finishing Line Press.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/thomasoyes/
LOCATION:Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings
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