BOOK LAUNCH – Linda Scheller’s The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street

DATE: Sunday, October 25, 2026
TIME: 2PM
LOCATION: Prospect Theater Project, 1214 K St, Modesto

Join us for a reading, book signing, music performance, and refreshments!

The Book Launch Celebration features a collaborative performance of music by local professionals Anne Martin, Alison Peltier, Jana Hunn, Hauk Graham, and Peter Grimaldi in response to select poems from The Ghosts of 16 Larkin Street, published by The Word Works. This artistic presentation will enable guests to enjoy a memorable, unique synthesis of instrumental music and poetry.

Prior to the collaborative performance, Dr. Mai-Linh Hong, scholar and UC Merced professor of literature, will read from her award-winning debut poetry collection Continental Drift. Refreshments, live pre- and post-show music, a Q & A, and book signing are all components of the book launch celebration on Sunday, October 25th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Prospect Theater Project, 1214 K Street, Modesto.

Free parking is available in the lot across the street from the theater.

Linda Scheller is the author of three poetry books and a forthcoming hybrid collection. Her poetry, plays, and book reviews are published in Slipstream, Colorado Review, Poetry East, Hawaii Pacific Review, and elsewhere. She serves as vice president of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and letters chair of National League of American Pen Women’s Modesto Branch. Her website is lindascheller.com.

There are only 100 tickets available, so please RSVP as soon as possible in order to secure a seat. 

The link for tickets and information is https://www.prospecttheaterproject.org/events/book-launch-linda-schellers-the-ghosts-of-16-larkin-street