Category: MoStPoetry Updates

2023-2024 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate: Faith A. Delgado

Stanislaus Youth Poet Laureate Applications submission period January 1 - February 27

We’re so thrilled to announce that Faith A. Delgado has been chosen Stanislaus County’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate. She will serve a one-year term, participate in several engagements throughout the year, and receive a $500 honorarium. Janelle Yulo, a junior at Modesto’s Johansen High School, and Zoe Byron, a freshman at Oakdale High School, were …

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MoSt’s Poetry Everywhere Initiative: Getting Poetry Books to Schoolkids

Salida Elementary School receives donation of poetry books from Sal Salerno of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center & Modesto's poet laureate

In the nearly ten-year history of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center it has taken on few projects more ambitious than to donate sets of brand new poetry books to every public school in the county. But that’s exactly what MoSt adopted as a goal about five years ago and has been working to achieve ever since. …

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Salvatore Salerno, Modesto Poet Laureate

Congratulations to MoSt board member Salvatore Salerno, Modesto’s ninth Poet Laureate!

Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest

Co-sponsored by MoSt (Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center) and the National League of American Penwomen (NLAPW), Modesto chapter. Read the complete rules and download the entry form HERE. This contest is offered as a means of encouraging young writers throughout Stanislaus County and as a way to remember poet Aileen Jaffa, the founding President of the …

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Poetry Books for Schools in Spring 2019

This past month, MoSt purchased and donated sets of brand-new kids’ poetry books to five more elementary schools: Paradise Elementary, Walter M. Brown Elementary (Turlock), Orville Wright Elementary, Denair Elementary, and Martone Elementary. The photo here shows MoSt board member Salvatore Salerno delivering the books to Paradise Elementary School. Your memberships and donations make programs …

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