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Poetry on Sunday Series @ Carnegie
May 31, 2015 @ 2:00 pm PDT - 4:00 pm PDT
Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our next installment of the quarterly Poetry on Sunday series, featuring Stella Beratlis, Brian Wright, Jessica Dickman and Linda Prather.. This event is FREE and open to the public, with an open mic following the reading. Join us in celebrating the spoken word!
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From the official press release:
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) is pleased to announce the third in a series of quarterly poetry readings, The Poetry on Sunday Series, hosted by Carnegie Arts Center (Gemperle Gallery), 250 N. Broadway, Turlock, California on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 2 pm. The featured readers in May for The Poetry on Sunday Series reading will be Stella Beratlis, Jessica Dickman, Brian Wright and Linda Marie Prather. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public. An Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring your words to share.
FEATURED READERS SHORT BIOGRAPHIES:
STELLA BERATLIS up in a Greek-American family in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Quercus Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin, California Quarterly, and other journals, as well as in the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011). Beratlis is a librarian in Modesto, where she lives with her daughter. She has just published her first collection of poems entitled Alkali Sink (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015).
JESSICA DICKMAN is a Central Valley native, but as a child she grew up both in the heat of the Arizona desert and the iciness of New England. Returning to the Central Valley in her post-adolescent years, Dickman attended Modesto Junior College and completed her B.A. in English at CSU Stanislaus. She is a current graduate student in Rhetoric and Teaching Writing. Dickman, an avid yogi, molds young minds as a substitute teacher and tutor. Her passions lay in education and helping others attain their highest potential.
BRIAN WRIGHT is a third generation native Californian. Brian received his BA in English from California State University, Stanislaus and an MA In English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He has published locally since the 1970s. He is a retired high school English teacher who divides his time between the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada.
LINDA MARIE PRATHER says much of her poetry is inspired by what Charles Wright speaks of as, “language, landscape, and the idea of God”. The image of things in landscape is often her springboard into writing. Linda has four chapbooks published, the latest Unforced Rhythms, from Finishing Line Press, which won 3rd Place award in the NLAPW 2014 Biennial Letters Competition. Her first full-length manuscript, Summer Song, is waiting to be released. She is an editor for Song of The San Joaquin, a Modesto resident and artist who belongs to the National League of American Pen Women, in Arts and Letters. Her poetry appears in More Than Soil, More Than Sky/ The Modesto Poets. She has been published widely and received prizes from Penumbra, Poets’ Dinner Contest, Ina Coolbrith Circle, the Golden Pegasus Award, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Linda has three works of art and a poem in the Inspiring Women show at Carnegie Arts Center (2015).