Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

September’s 2nd Tuesday Reading Series is on September 12 at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog! Our featured poets are Erica Goss and Ed Coletti.

Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California from 2013-2016. She is the author of Night Court (2014, Pushpen Press) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2012, Finishing Line Press) Her latest poetry collection, Wild Place, won the 2016 Lyrebird Prize from Glass Lyre Press. Widely published, Erica was the host of Word to Word, a Show About Poetry, on KCAT Cable TV in Los Gatos, and wrote The Third Form, a column about video poetry, for Connotation Press. She is the co-founder of Media Poetry Studio, a poetry-and-film camp for teen girls. Erica lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches classes in poetry and video.

Ed Coletti is a poet, painter, fiction writer and middling chess player.  Recent poems  have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, North American Review, Volt, Spillway, and Blueline.  Most recent poetry collection The Problem With Breathing (Edwin Smith Publishing –Little Rock- 2015).  Ed also curates the popular ten-year-old blog “No Money In Poetry.” He lives with his wife Joyce in Santa Rosa, California.

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Check Out Our 2017 Annual Gala Photos

Thanks to the wonderful work of Justin Souza and Photos Just So, we’ve got a beautiful selection of pictures from our fourth annual gala earlier this year: poets, musicians, supporters, artwork from the silent auction, food and drink, and, of course, POETRY. Click here to take a look!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

Join us for a great reading this Tuesday, August 8 at the Barkin’ Dog in downtown Modesto at 6:00. This month’s poets are Modesto’s own Gordon Preston and William O’Daly.

William O’Daly has translated eight books of poetry by Pablo Neruda, all published with Copper Canyon Press. He’ll publish his ninth book of Neruda’s poetry, Book of Twilight, with Copper Canyon in October, 2017. His collection of poems, Water Ways, was published in 2017, and his homage to Neruda, The Road to Isla Negra, in 2015, both by Folded Word Press.

Gordon Preston has appeared in Cutbank, Five Points, Miramar, Missouri Review, and Rattle. He is a founding member of MoSt, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. His newest publication is What Morning Brings, a mini-chapbook from Tiger’s Eye Press Infinities.

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie

Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on August 27 at 2 pm–feel free to print and distribute the flyer, available as a PDF right here.

Featured readers:

Sy Margaret Baldwin was born and raised in the West Midlands of England. Presently she lives in the Sierra of California where she worked from 1992 to 2008 as a Wildlife Technician for the Stanislaus National Forest. Her poems has been published widely in literary magazines. Her poetry collection, Signal Fires, was published in 2014 by Word Project Press.

Salvatore Salerno has an M.F.A. from University of North Carolina, where he was awarded The Academy of American Poets University Prize. He worked as a poet and playwright in the Visiting Artist Program in North Carolina. More than 110 of his poems have appeared in such magazines as Descant, Poem, and Quercus Review. His poetry books are Sunleaf, Inkboat and the recently released New Wine in Old Barrels. Salvatore is a founding member of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.

Linda Scheller‘s writing has appeared in nearly 50 journals and anthologies including Notre Dame Review, Lone Star Legacy, Slipstream, Howling Dog, Hawaii Pacific Review, and The Distillery. FutureCycle Press recently published Ms. Scheller’s first book, Fierce Light, a collection of persona poems based on years of research into the lives and accomplishments of 36 women from world history and culture. For more information, visit her website at www.lindascheller.com.

Gillian Wegener is the author of a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001), a full-length collection, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and was a coeditor of More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011). Her most recent collection, This Sweet Haphazard, was published this year by Sixteen Rivers Press.  She is founding president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto, and has run the Second Tuesday Reading Series for the past eight years. She lives in Modesto with her husband, daughter, and a button-eating dog.

MoSt Board Meeting

Our next Board meeting is Thursday, August 3 at 6:30 at Tom Portwood’s home–email info@mostpoetry.org for more information!