Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center & Stanislaus County Library Present Many Voices, One Community, featuring Gillian Wegener and Salvatore Salerno, emeritus and current Poets Laureate of Modesto Celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing your poetry! Read your poetry, or poems from one of your favorite poets. Reading time limited to three minutes per person. Thursday, April 28 at …
Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry, featuring Susan Kelly-Dewitt and Linda Toren. Hosted by Gary Thomas Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 Time: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom--RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf--tqTwjHtzOiKfx1CE232QV992N-gyG After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. About Susan Kelly-Dewitt Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of The Gatherer’s …
Second Tuesday Poetry presents Field Studies, Poems We Love FIELD STUDIES. Maybe poets are social scientists at heart: We ask questions and seek to understand the world, ourselves, each other. For this open mic reading, please come prepared to read a poem that you love–one in which witness, documentation, analysis, and/or understanding are key. You'll …
Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Gary Thomas and Ian Miller Join us at 7 pm on Zoom as we feature Gary Thomas, reading from his new collection All the Connecting Lights. He is joined by poet Ian Miller of Modesto. Hosted by Stella Beratlis Date: Tuesday, Sept 13, 2022 Time: 7:00 pm PST …
Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry Online featuring Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore Join us as we welcome two tremendous poets to our Second Tuesday Poetry series: State of Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells and James Fujinami Moore of Los Angeles. Both have new collections published by Four Way Books. We're pleased to …
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, wrote the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821 in the essay, "A Defence of Poetry." By this, he meant that poetry reflects the real world and that the poet's imagination is the faculty which allows us to perceive beauty in the world--thereby helping create civilization itself. Poets …
