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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday featuring Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloom
DTSTART:20260909T020000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is pleased to present Second 
 Tuesday Poetry featuring Bay Area poets Judy Halebsky and Nichole Turnbloo
 m\nDate: Tuesday\, September 8\, 2026\nTime: 7:00 pm\; doors at 6:30 PM\nW
 here: Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, in the Roseburg Square shopp
 ing center. Event is free. Refreshments\, books\, and cool bookstore merch
  available for purchase!\nJUDY HALEBSKY\n \nJudy Halebsky is the author of
  three poetry collections\, most recently\, Spring and a Thousand Years (U
 nabridged) which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Mil
 ler Williams Prize. Born and raised in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, she holds a
 n M.F.A. in English & Creative Writing from Mills College and a Ph.D. in P
 erformance Studies from the University of California\, Davis. Judy’s wor
 k has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Millay
  Colony\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her book Sky=Empty won the New Is
 sues Prize\, and her chapbook  Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-
 Under-Forty Award from Sixteen Rivers Press. Tree Line was shortlisted for
  five awards including the Believer Poetry Award and the California Book A
 ward. Along with  poetry\, Halebsky also writes articles\, essays\, plays
 \, and performs live improvised stories. \nAt Dominican University of Cali
 fornia\, she teaches Japanese literature\, poetry\, and live storytelling.
  She lives in Berkeley with her nature guide and young daughter. \nAbout S
 pring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged):\nA translator’s notebook\, an a
 lmanac\, an ecological history\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand 
 Years (Unabridged) moves between multiple intersections and sign systems c
 onnected in a long glossary poem that serves as the book’s guide to what
  is lost\, erased\, or disrupted in transition both from experience to wri
 tten word and from one language\, location\, and time period to another. \
 nThe role of the literary translator is to bring text from one language in
 to another\, working to at once shift and retain the context of the origin
 al—from one alphabet to another\, one point in time to another. These ar
 e poems in homage to translation\; they rely on concepts that can bridge t
 ime and space\, and as a result are as likely to find meaning in donuts or
  Zumba as they are to find it in the ocean. Spring and a Thousand Years (U
 nabridged) finds reasons for hope not in how the world should be\, but in
  how it has always been. \n“Halebsky likes the unleashed energy of poetr
 y\, and in the poems gathered here\, she delivers.” —Billy Collins \n
 “Under the spell of Bashō’s haiku\, but written in a voice entirely i
 ts own\, Judy Halebsky’s Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged) is the
  first book of poetry I’ve read in years that makes civilization look go
 od. It makes me want to make dinner\, make love\, and make noise. Only a p
 oet this generous\, this wise\, and this rich in language could have made 
 this splendid thing. Read this book and you will wish you were her neighbo
 r.”\n—Katy Peterson\, author of A Piece of Good News \nNICHOLE TURNBLO
 OM\n \nNichole Turnbloom is the author of Out of the Unexpected: Poems wi
 th Sappho. She has an MFA in poetry and completed a facilitation training
  through the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her poems have been published 
 in Acumen\, California Quarterly\, The Branches\, Garlic Press Lit\, Luna 
 Luna Magazine\, Bear Review\, IWWG’s Anthology Write Forward among oth
 er venues. Her work is informed by nearly twenty years of providing somati
 c therapy to those affected by complex trauma and delves into themes of sp
 iritual fragmentation\, identity and longing. \nAbout OUT OF THE UNEXPECTE
 D: POEMS WITH SAPPHO\nIn Out of the Unexpected\, Nichole Turnbloom reache
 s into the fragments of Sappho—poet\, musician\, teacher\, the Tenth Mus
 e—and weaves a luminous dialogue between past and present\, voice and si
 lence\, myth and memory. \nDrawing from lost lines and broken songs\, thes
 e poems are a testament to what remains\, what is remade\, and what longs 
 to be spoken. Here\, the resonance of Sappho’s lyricism mingles with the
  raw pulse of modern grief\, rage\, tenderness\, and survival. Through cor
 respondence\, reimagining\, and reflection\, Turnbloom invites readers to 
 step into a timeless conversation—one stitched with longing\, beauty\, a
 nd unyielding truth.
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LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, Un
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SUMMARY:14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival - Come to the Table! A Bilingual 
 Poetry Workshop with Juan Luzuriaga
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CATEGORIES:education,festival,literary
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Table! Join us in person for the 14th Annual MoSt 
 Poetry Festival\, a bilingual poetry conference featuring poet Juan Luzuri
 aga \n\n\n\n14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival: Come to the Table with Juan 
 Luzuriaga\nRegistration and continental breakfast 9:30-10:00 a.m.\nWorksho
 p 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.\nLight lunch served \nGet ready for an amazing 
 morning and afternoon at the 14th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival\, for a bili
 ngual conference where Spanish and English will be celebrated in poetry. \
 nGuest poet/facilitator: Juan Luzuriaga \nJoin us in person to experience 
 the powerful words and unique style of Juan Luzuriaga. \nJuan Luzuriaga w
 as born in Guayaquil\, Ecuador\, and immigrated to the U.S. at 16 in 2000.
  He studied Neuroscience at Rutgers University and English at UC Merced. H
 e teaches poetry in prisons\, at Cuesta College\, and California Poets in 
 the Schools. He has been a featured panelist at UC Merced\, Cuesta College
  Central Coast Writers’ Conference\, Litfest and more\, and he is a feat
 ured panelist at the 2026 San Francisco Writers Conference Poetry Summit. 
 \nHe has been published in Acentos Review\, San Diego Poetry Annual\, Mon
 terey Poetry Review\, Cholla Needles\, Poetry Breakfast\, Matchbox Magazin
 e\, and in the anthologies Silence Is Consent\, To Be Completely Honest\,
  and Method Writers Speak. His book Cotopax Whispers\, a poetry collec
 tion exploring migration\, memory\, identity\, language\, and ancestry–w
 as just published by Blue Light Press. \nWhether you’re a poetry lover o
 r just curious\, this generative workshop will inspire you to write poems 
 and celebrate language. \nDon’t miss out on this chance to connect with 
 the local poetry scene and enjoy being in community with other writers. \n
 Tickets $40\; Eventbrite fee applies
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LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, U
 nited States
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/14th-annual-most-poetry-festival-come
 -to-the-table-a-bilingual-poetry-workshop-with-juan-luzuriaga/
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday Poetry with Linda Scheller and Lisa Rosenberg
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CATEGORIES:literary
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 13 as MoSt Poetry presents featured poets L
 inda Scheller and Lisa Rosenberg\, both with new collections published by 
 The Word Works press. \n7:00 p.m. (6:30 doors) at Bookish Modesto\, 811 W.
  Roseburg Ave\, Modesto CA\nEvent free\; books\, beverages\, and merch ava
 ilable for purchase. \nLINDA SCHELLER\nLinda Scheller is a San Joaquin Val
 ley educator and author whose poetry\, plays\, and book reviews appear in 
 Slipstream\, Colorado Review\, Terrain\, Notre Dame Review\, and Poetry Ea
 st\, among many other publications. She serves as vice president of Modest
 o-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, letters chair for National League of American
  Pen Women’s Modesto branch\, and co-\nproducer of KCBP Community Radio
 ’s Arts of the San Joaquin Valley and Women of the Valley. \nHonors incl
 ude Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations\, Catherine Cushman Lea
 ch Poetry Awards\, and California Federation of Chaparral Poets Prizes. Li
 nda is the author of Fierce Light\, published by FutureCycle Press in 2017
 \; Wind & Children\, published by Main Street Rag in 2022\, and The Ghosts
  of 16 Larkin Street\, selected by Ariel Francisco Henriquez Cos for The\n
 Word Works 2026 Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Laurels\, a collection of 
 biographical poetry and prose honoring 38 historic women\, is forthcoming 
 from Prickly Pear Publishing. \nAbout The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street\n“A
  wizard at revelatory domestic portraiture and telltale family incidents\,
  Scheller reconstructs home and examines\, with artfulness and agility\, h
 er German American heritage in an intrepid quest for compassion\, clarity\
 , and authentic identity.”  Cyrus Cassels\, 2021 Texas Poet Laureate\, 
 author of Lorca to the Umpteenth Power \n“This powerful memoir-in-verse 
 charts the generational haunting of this brave poet’s lineage. From a fa
 mily tragedy to secrets\, depression\, and recovery\, Scheller has done th
 e difficult work of engaging her ghosts. This is an honest\, sobering\, re
 velatory book.” Lee Herrick\, California Poet Laureate\, author of In Pr
 aise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems \n“The Ghosts of 16 Larkin S
 treet is filled with stark\, realistic\, personal yet quite universal poem
 s that paint an intimate portrait of identity\, interpersonal struggles\, 
 loss\, family\, and the ever-present need for empathy.” John Sibley Will
 iams\, author of As One Fire Consumes Another \nLISA ROSENBERG\nLisa Rosen
 berg is a poet\, essayist\, and engineer-physicist who worked in the US sp
 ace program. Rooted in lifelong immersion in arts and sciences\, her writi
 ng has been recognized by a Leonardo@Djerassi Residency\, Wallace Stegner 
 Fellowship\, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. In 2017-2 \n018\, she served a
 s Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, California\, and began offering publ
 ic lectures\, essays\, and workshops that center systems and process skill
 s essential to integrative thinking. Rosenberg is the author of the poetry
  collections Weeds and Stars (2026\, The Word Works\, Hilary Tham Capital 
 Collection) and A Different Physics (2018\, Red Mountain Press\, winner of
  the American Legacy Book Award)\, as well as essays spanning memoir\, sat
 ire\, science\, and travel. Her poems explore interrelatedness across disp
 arate aspects of nature and culture\, from the fantastic to the mundane\, 
 the subatomic to the celestial\, often enacting scientific thinking in str
 ucture and mode\, independent of theme. Her literary publications and feat
 ures include The Marginalian\, POETRY\, The Common\, The Threepenny Review
 \, Plume\, and many anthologies. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area a
 nd part time in Ilia\, Greece. \nAbout Weeds and Stars\n  \n\nThe rhythmi
 cally grounded\, formally varied poems of Lisa Rosenberg’s Weeds and Sta
 rs invite possibilities of kinship and transformation in the dichotomies t
 hat surround us\, whether fantastic or ordinary\, subatomic or celestial i
 n scale: odes to Pi and snowflake formation\; meditations on urchins and o
 rbital mechanics\, and an interwoven series of uncanny prose poems for res
 ilient plants. This second collection finds lyric voice in the human and n
 onhuman alike\, bringing into deeper bloom what Robert Pinsky hailed in Ro
 senberg’s debut: “an informed vision that is social as well as scienti
 fic\, personal as well as historical.” Weeds and Stars engages with the 
 tropes and expectations of Western lyric poetry\, and the speaker that eme
 rges is by turns wry\, off-kilter\, and playful\, inviting us to reconside
 r agency and relation—feather to fire\, plants to politics\, Old Glory t
 o accretion disks. \n“…altogether ravishing…the finest reverie of re
 ality since Diane Ackerman’s The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral\, with the 
 feeling-tone of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and the sensibility of astro
 nomer-poet Rebecca Elson’s A Responsibility to Awe.” —Maria Popova 
 \n“In an age of velocity and vanishing attention\, Lisa Rosenberg’s po
 ems offer a lucid countercurrent…remaking what we think we know of belon
 ging\, of wildness\, of worth.” — Katherine Larson \n“Let us praise 
 the self-seeders\, these sustainable poems\, these marvelous metaphors.”
  — Indran Amirthanayagam
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LOCATION:Bookish Modesto\, 811 W. Roseburg Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, Un
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