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MoSt Poetry Book Club: The Art of Drowning

Stanislaus County Library 1500 I Street, Modesto, CA, United States Free, facilitated by Modesto Poet Laureate Salvatore Salerno. See event listing for details. Book available at the Modesto Library.

MoSt Poetry Book Club

Join host Salvatore Salerno for a discussion of The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus. MoSt Book Club will meet Monday, April 22, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the Maker Space of the Stanislaus County Library, 1500 I Street, Modesto CA. Participants may pick up a free copy of The Art …

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MoSt Poetry Book Club – Information Desk by Robyn Schiff

MoSt Poetry Book Club meets at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at BakeShop, 11th Street in downtown Modesto to discuss Information Desk by Robyn Schiff. You can pick up a copy of the book at the Stanislaus County Library’s Modesto Branch. Here’s what the publisher, Penguin Random House, has to say: ABOUT INFORMATION DESK …

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MoSt Poetry Book Club

november book club featuring W.S. Merwin at Modesto Library Nov. 13

“The late W.S. Merwin might as well have been called Merlin, for the seemingly magical changes of his work during his long career.  The poems in Present Company are like impressionist or even abstract paintings.  If you scan them quickly, they will seem to be out of focus, but if you read more slowly, stopping and lingering, …

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MoSt Poetry Book Club

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.