Third Tuesday Poetry Night at Twin Lotus Thai Restaurant. Featured readers: Moira Magneson and Lenore Myers. Hosted by Bob Stanley. Reading starts at 6:00 pm, followed by open mic. Reservations and pre-ordering are strongly requested — please go to twinlotusthai.com to reserve your table and place your food order.

Moira Magneson has worked as a river guide, artist’s model, truck driver, television writer, editor, and community college writing instructor. A Northern California native, she lives in the Sierra foothills where she has spearheaded many art actions and initiatives, including El Dorado County’s Poetry Out Loud Competition, Veterans’ Voices, Black Lives: An American Overture, and A Courage of Poets. In 2024, she was the resident poet for ForestSong, a community arts project exploring solastalgia, biophilia, and resilience in the face of wildfire devastation. Magneson is the author of A River Called Home: A River Fable, an illustrated novella (Toad Road Press, 2024). In the Eye of the Elephant, her first full-length collection of poems, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2025. She is El Dorado County’s fifth poet laureate.

Lenore Myers was born to artist parents who tried to live as semi-bohemians in the suburbs. When that fell apart, the author spent her childhood and youth moving between different towns in Northern California. After spending more years moving around the U.S. and abroad, she returned to the greater Bay Area to be near family while raising her son. Her chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2023, and her first full-length collection, Afterimages, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in April 2026. Her poems and essays appear in a variety of journals, including LIT, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, and The Southern Review.