The Second Tuesday Poetry Series

is happening at

the Barkin’ Dog Grill!

~~940 11^th Street, Modesto~~

Join us on December 8 at 6:00p.m.

for a great reading,

and come and enjoy a great dinner too.

Ed Bearden

Ed Bearden is Modesto’s immediate past poet laureate and recipient of the 2007 literary arts award. His poetry has received three Pushcart prize nominations. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and one full length collection, Riding the Tractor. He has also authored a book of humor and a collection of more than 80 articles published by local newspapers.

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Roberta Bearden
Roberta is a poet, a painter, and a musician. She has been writing poetry for thirty years. She recently had her first full-length poetry book On The Museum Steps published.  She plays ukulele with a small band through Memorial Hospitals complimentary therapies for cancer survivors.  She was selected Outstanding Woman in Stanislaus County in 1991 for her volunteer work with people with disabilities.

Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share!

Download the PDF flyer here. For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org.

The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill! 940 11^th Street, Modesto.

Join us on September 8 at 6:00 p.m. for a great reading, and come and enjoy a great dinner too.

Jeanne Foster
Jeanne, a professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at St. Mary’s College, divides her time between Berkeley, and Italy. Widely published, she is currently working on two Italian-centered projects: a memoir of ballroom dance in Italy and, along with poet Alan Williamson, translations of the poetry of Bianca Tarozzi. Jeanne is co-editor of Appetite: Food as Metaphor (BOA), and her critical work A Music of Grace, explores the sacred in contemporary poetry. Her collection A Blessing of Safe Travel won the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award, and her new collection, Goodbye, Silver Sister, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2015.

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Tom Myers
Tom is a retired elementary teacher who has lived the vast majority of his life in California’s Central Valley. He lives with his wife Anne and assorted pets and is active in the Modesto poetry scene. Much of his work originates from his love of nature – hiking and birding are two of his favorite activities. His poems have appeared in More Than Soil, More Than Sky, hardpan, Quercus Review, Collision II, 4more, Modesto Poets’ Corner, and Stanislaus Connections. He has one chapbook, The Lost Language of Birds.

Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share! For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org.

You can also download a PDF flyer right here.