Books Shared at Coffee, Tea, and Poetry

The Park                             John Freeman

Simply to Know its Name                   Robert Aquinas McNally

Felon                           Reginald Betts

Everyday Mojo Songs of the Earth              Yusef Komunyakaa

Pig Dreams: Scenes from the Life of Sylvia              Denise Levertov

The Collected Poems, 1965-2019                 Lucille Clifton

The Really Really Short Poems                 A.R. Ammons

100 Selected Poems                              e.e.cummings

The Blue Estuaries                                 Louise Bogan

Selected Poems                                   Czelaw Milosz

Buffalo Yoga                                    Charles Wright

Deep Gossip                                         Sidney Wade

Where Shall I Wander?                          John Ashbery

Tattoos                            Francisco Alarcón

Body Mutinies                                 Lucia Perillo

Morning in the Burned House                Margaret Atwood

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something        Indigo Moor

Incedendiary Art                               Patricia Smith

A Net to Catch My Body in Its Weaving                Katie Farris

If We Had a Lemon, 

            We’d Throw It and Call It the Sun                       Christopher Citro

Glossary of Unsaid Terms                      Victoria Flanagan

Shrapnel Maps                                      Philip Metres

Forest Primeval                                     Vievee Francis

Earthly Delights                                     Troy Jollimore

Yellow Rain                                           Mai der Vang

The Bell and the Blackbird                     David Whyte

The Road to Isla Negra                          William O’Daly

The World is God’s Language                 Dane Cervine

Falling in Silence                                    Jatuh Bisu

A Prince Albert Wind                             Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Collected Works                                    Lorine Niedecker

Night Sky with Exit Wounds                   Ocean Vuong

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings                          Joy Harjo

American Sunrise                           Joy Harjo

Hawk Parable                           Tyler Mills

Tongue Lyre                       Tyler Mills

Dear All                                    Maggie Anderson

Dialogues with Rising Tides                    Kelli Russell Agodon

Heaven Beneath                                   Anne Marie Macari

The Bastard and the Bishop                          Gerald Fleming

Post-Mortem                                        Heather Altfeld

Ragged Eden                                         Michael Meyerhofer

Hundred-Year Wave                              Rachel Richardson

Foxlogic Fireweed                                 Jennifer K. Sweeney

Ordinary Psalms                                    Julie B. Levine

Bonfire Opera                                     Danusha Laméris

When My Brother Was an Aztec                 Natalie Diaz

Hurdy-Gurdy                                    Tim Seibles

The Carrying                                   Ada Limón

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry Book Discussion: Laure-Ann Bosselaar’s THESE MANY ROOMS

“Think of it: the worlds in this world. “ L.A. Bosselaar

Come join us for conservation about Laure-Anne Bosselaar ‘s most recent book of poetry, These Many Rooms. There will be readings of her poetry during our time together which will be on Zoom, November 17, 2021 at 6:30, facilitated by Janette Jameson.

Prior reading of the book is NOT a requirement of joining us! This is an opportunity simply to learn about the poet and her work.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, These Many Rooms (Four Way Books, 2019). Her collection, Small Gods of Grief (BOA Editions), won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. A New Hunger, (Ausable Press 2008) was an American Library Association Notable Book in 2008.

She grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She taught poetry workshops in Colorado and co-directed the Aspen Writers’ Conference from 1989 to 1992. She is fluent in four languages, and has published poems in French and Flemish. She was a Breadloaf Fellow, was awarded the McEver Chair at Georgia Tech, taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College, at the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, and is part of the founding faculty at the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. She is the widow of poet Kurt Brown and currently lives in Santa Barbara, California

Copies of the book will be available from the Modesto Library–ask at check-out desk or call (209) 558-7808.

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Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Cristina Sandoval & Manny Moreno

The‌ ‌Modesto-Stanislaus‌ ‌Poetry‌ ‌Center‌ ‌features‌ ‌poets Cristina Sandoval and Manny Moreno for the November installment‌ ‌of‌ ‌Second‌ ‌Tuesday‌ ‌Poetry.‌ ‌Join‌ ‌us‌ ‌to hear these two poets read for us as first-time featured poets on Tuesday,‌ November 9, at‌ ‌7‌ ‌pm‌, ‌on‌ ‌Google Meet. Hosted‌ ‌by‌ ‌Stella‌  ‌Beratlis‌ ‌with‌ ‌open‌ ‌mic‌ ‌following‌ ‌the‌ ‌featured‌ ‌readers.‌ ‌ 

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CRISTINA SANDOVAL

Cristina Sandoval is an MFA student at Fresno State University and a poet to the bone. Cristina has been a purveyor of words since she can remember. She is a proud Chicana and is desperately in love with language. She often mixes her two languages, Spanish and English, in an attempt to bridge the beauty and hurt in both. Her work often focuses on family, mental health, and finding meaning in the terrible. She has two books on Amazon, Moon Ride, and We Need Bad Bitches. Her work has been featured in Penumbra, Artifact Nouveau, Exist(ir), and Dystopian Dance Party. Her thesis work is centered around the nature of family, culture, and hair. She is from Modesto, California, and now lives in Fresno. And if you were wondering, yes, she misses Mr. T’s Donuts! 

MANNY MONOLIN

Monolin “Manny” Moreno is the author of four books, the most recent of which is a collection of poems, Longview Road. Manny’s previous works include Scared–Coming Full Circle: A Memoir; his first poetry collection, The Bridge Is Gone; and The Elder: A Tribute, about the importance of elders in the community and about two Native American elders in particular. 

His poems are about growing up in Livingston, where his family’s roots were established in the early 1900s, and about a wide range of topics. 

Manny is a Member of the Black Wolf Honor Society Gourd Clan, a member of Native American Church and Sundances yearly in South Dakota. Manny is of  Yaqui/Tarascan descent. Manny has been featured in interviews on Native Voice TV, Channel 10, Sacramento and Company, KKUP Radio/Indian Time and Two Roads Productions. He has been a speaker at Modesto Junior College and various events. He was nominated for the Pushcart Award in 2011.

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Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Julia B. Levine & Matthew Lippman plus open mic

The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome poets Julia B. Levine and Matthew Lippman on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91357899430. Sign up for Open Mic (3 mins each poet) following the featured poets. 

JULIA B. LEVINE 

Julia B. Levine has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection of poetry, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, (LSU press 2014), first prize in the 2019 Bellevue Literary Review poetry contest, 2019 Public Poetry Awards, 2018 Tiferet Poetry Prize, as well as the 2003 Tampa Review Poetry Prize for Ask, and the 1998 Anhinga Poetry prize as well as a bronze medal from Foreword magazine for her first collection, Practicing for Heaven.  Her fifth and most recent collection, Ordinary Psalms, is now available from LSU press.

MATTHEW LIPPMAN

Matthew Lippman’s collection Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful (2020) is published by Four Way Books. It was the recipient of the 2018 Levis Prize. He is the author of 5 other poetry collections.

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 7 pm PDT

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Coffee, Tea, and Poetry

Salvatore Salerno is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting on behalf of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.  Share a few poems from the latest poetry book that you are reading.  You can even show the poems to us on a screen that you share with us.
Topic: Coffee, Tea, and Poetry
Time: Oct 9, 2021 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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