Poetry on Sunday Series

Please join us for the August edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday, August 16^th at 2:00 P. M., featuring three wonderful poets:  Linda Jackson Collins, Bob Stanley, and Jenny Tang!  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center, this time we’ll be on ZOOM.  Join us, too, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers!

Our Featured Readers:

Originally from Washington, D.C., Linda Jackson Collins studied English and Business at Vanderbilt. Linda rediscovered poetry about a decade ago, and her first book, Painting Trees, came out from Random Lane Press in 2019.

Linda served on the Sacramento Poetry Center’s board for many years and edited its poetry journal, Tule Review. She continues to write and collaborate with other poets from her home in Carmichael where she lives with her husband, Rob.

Bob Stanley has organized and led writing programs and classes for nearly fifty years.  He has edited two regional anthologies and published three collections of his own work: Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger (Rattlesnake Press, 2009), Eleven Blue Strings (little m press, 2012), and Miracle Shine (CW Books, 2013). Bob served as Poet Laureate of Sacramento City and County from 2009 to 2012, and he lives in Sacramento with his wife, Joyce Hsiao.

        Jenny Tang grew up traveling back and forth between Phoenix, Arizona and Beijing, China. She was first exposed to poetry through attending CalSlam performances at UC Berkeley, and has been featured in LoReLi (Look Read Listen) China, performed as a Sacrificial Poet in the 2019 Chill List Team Competition, and a winner of the 2019 Poet’s Corner Poetry Contest. She is currently a member of the Central Valley Poets Collective.