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Poetry on Sunday Series

February 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm PST - 4:00 pm PST

Please join us for the February edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday, February 21st at 2:00 P.M., featuring local poets Ed Bearden and Cleo Griffith.  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center, this time we’ll be on ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83974391144

Open Mic Time follows, including poems from the New Year’s Poetry Challenge.

Free and open to the public. Join us in celebrating the written and spoken word!


Ed Bearden has been published in Penumbra, Quercus Review, In The Grove and the anthology More Than Soil, More Than Sky:  The Modesto Poets.  He is the recipient of the 2007 Award in Literary Arts presented by the Stanislaus Arts Council.  His poetry has received three Pushcart Prize nominations.  He was the 2008-2012 Poet Laureate for the City of Modesto.  His work is scheduled to appear later this year in Evening Street Review.

Cleo Griffith was Chair of the Editorial Board of Song of the San Joaquin for its first twelve years and remains on the Board in its 17th year.  She is vice-president of the Modesto branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Widely published, she lives in Salida, California with her cats Amber and Neil.

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Date:
February 21, 2021
Time:
2:00 pm PST - 4:00 pm PST
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Venue

Zoom

Organizer

Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center