Poetry On Sunday Series featuring Dane Cervine & Stella Beratlis

Join host Gary Thomas and our featured readers Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine for the Sunday, August 15th edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Sunday Series readings on Zoom, beginning at 2:00 P. M. Pacific Time.  

Stella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink (2015) and her latest collection, Dust Bowl Venus (May 2021).  Her poems have appeared in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us:  Poems from the San Franciso Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and California Fire and Water:  A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets, 2020).  Beratis served as Modesto’s poet laureate from 2016-2020 and works as a librarian there.

Dane Cervine is a poet whose recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii.  Previous poetry books include Kung Fu of the Dark Father, How Therapists Dance, The Jeweled Net of Indra, and What a Father Dreams.  Dane’s poems have won awards from Adrienne Rich, Tony Hoagland, the Atlanta Review, Caesura, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  His work appears in The SUN, the Hudson Review, TriQuarterly, Poetry Flash, Catamaran, Miramar, Rattle, Sycamore Review, and Pedestal Magazine, among others.  You can read more about Dane at his blog: https://danecervine.typepad.com/

Here is the Zoom link to the reading:

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Stella’s latest book, Dust Bowl Venus, and Dane’s new book, The World is God’s Language, have recently been published by Sixteen Rivers Press. For more information about the authors and the books, go to these pages on the Sixteen Rivers site:

https://sixteenrivers.org/authors/stellaberatlis/

https://sixteenrivers.org/authors/dane-cervine/

Our usual Open Mic Time will follow the featured readers.  We look forward to seeing you!