Poetry on Sunday Series

Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the third installment of our quarterly reading series! Click the image at right to download the PDF flyer, and see below for bios of our featured readers.

Sara Coito is a Central Valley native whose claim to fame is that she and Megan Rapinoe share an alma mater. She seeks to explore ugly emotions, the struggle and ease of intimacy, and the plurality of devotion in her poetry. Her other passions include music, making pictures, working in kindergarten classrooms, eggs for breakfast, and snail mail. You can find her earlier work in Sigma Tau Delta’s Rectangle and University of Portland’s Writers magazine. Connect with her via email at coitosk@gmail.com or Instagram @thecoits.

Ingrid Keriotis is a former MJC English instructor. Her first book of poetry, It Started with the Wild Horses, was published in April and is available at ingridkeriotis.com. Ingrid currently teaches at Sierra College in Grass Valley. When it comes to writing poetry, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”

Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online eco-poetry zine, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University, Sacramento.