Come join us at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca this weekend! We’ll have a wide range of fabulous readers on the dedicated poetry stage, including Sacramento Poet Laureate Indigo Moor. You can also visit our table in the Authors’ Alley for more information about what we do, and to learn more about becoming a member or volunteer.
Poetry Book Club
MoSt is pleased to announce the start of our Poetry Book Club! Starting in January 2018, we’ll meet four times a year and discuss a different book of poetry each time. Our first meeting will be on Wednesday, January 17 from 6:30 to 7:30 at the downtown library and our featured book will be LOOK by Solmaz Sharif. This is the most recent Northern California Book Award winner in poetry and has been taking the poetry world by storm. The library will have extra copies to check out, but the book is widely available if you’d like to get your own. Either way, you want to read it ahead of time and be prepared some great conversation. More details to follow, but as usual, this event is free and open to the public, and in the meantime, you can find more here: https://solmazsharif.
Oct 09
Join Our New Poetry Book Club
MoSt is pleased to announce the start of our Poetry Book Club! Starting in January 2018, we’ll meet four times a year and discuss a different book of poetry each time. Our first meeting will be on Wednesday, January 17 from 6:30 to 7:30 at the downtown library and our featured book will be LOOK by Solmaz Sharif. This is the most recent Northern California Book Award winner in poetry and has been taking the poetry world by storm. The library will have extra copies to check out, but the book is widely available if you’d like to get your own. Either way, you want to read it ahead of time and be prepared some great conversation. More details to follow, but as usual, this event is free and open to the public, and in the meantime, you can find more here: https://solmazsharif.
Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog
October’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on Tuesday, October 10 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Jim Beggs.
Andrena Zawinski was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA but has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home since 2000. Her latest collection of poetry is Landings. She has two previous collections: Something About (a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award) and Traveling in Reflected Light (a Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize). Her poetry has received accolades for lyricism, form, spirituality, and social concern. She is also Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com.
Jim Beggs has only written perhaps seven poems, but he has written about a poet–his book on Henry Reed (“Naming of Parts”)–and he has set a dozen familiar poems to music or matched them to songs we all know and love.
Local Author Fair @ Modesto Library
MoSt will be at the Modesto Library’s Author’s Fair on September 23 from 10:00 to 1:00. Stop by our table and check out poetry by local authors, find out about poetry events, and ask your poetry questions! Then make sure to attend our poetry workshop inside the library at 1pm with Stella Beratlis.