Poetry On Saturday: Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve

Carnegie Arts Center

250 North Broadway Avenue, Turlock, California

            Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday readings in person on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock.  Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve from the Bay Area, followed by our Open Mic time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.

Andrena Zawinski is a veteran teacher of writing Jack Hirschman called “an activist poet whose works open up paths of struggle, celebration, revolutionary victories.”  About her fourth full-length poetry collection, Born Under the Influence, Mary Mackey lauds the poems as “tough, smart, beautifully crafted” and Michael Simms says, “we are lucky to have this poet among us.”  Her work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, CQ, Plainsongs, Progressive Magazine, Rattle, and more, and is widely anthologized, including Crossing Class, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute, Raising Lilly Ledbetter, Women Write Resistance, and others with awards from Akron Art Museum, International Human Rights Creators of Justice, Ventura County Poetry Project, Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize, Kenneth Patchen Poetry Prize, and PEN Oakland Award.  She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, but has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about Andrena’s latest book, visit:   https://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/zawinski.html

Born and raised in New England, Susie Meserve is the author of the poetry collection Little Prayers, which won a Blue Light Award from Blue Light Press and was published in 2018.  She is also the author of the chapbook Faith.  Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Elle, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Gulf Coast, Salamander, and more.  She lives in northern California with her family.