Stella Beratlis

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13th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival – Feb. 1, 2025

Featuring workshop facilitator and guest poet Michael Meyerhofer: Pulling Up the Floorboards: Two Radical Approaches to Revision. RSVP $40 + ticketing fee. Price includes continental breakfast and a light lunch.. Saturday, February 1, 2025 · 10am – 2pm PST. Doors at 9:45am. RSVP Eventbrite.

Reading/Open Mic & Book Launch Tues Nov 26

Gary Thomas book launch & reading Nov. 26 7 pm

Attend the Reading and Book Launch for Gary Thomas’s O YES WE BREATHE at Prospect Theater Project on Tuesday Nov. 26 at 7 pm.

Oakdale High’s Zoe Byron Selected as 2024-25 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate

Zoe Byron with her dog

We’re excited to share that Zoe Byron of Oakdale has been selected as our next youth laureate. Zoe Byron,  a sophomore at Oakdale High School, was selected as the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate for 2024-2025. She will serve a one-year term, participate in several engagements throughout the year, and receive a $500 honorarium. Cameron …

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Poetry Books for Hart-Ransom

Poetry books dropped off at Hart-Ransom Charter School. Pictured: Salvatore Salerno on the left and female school employee on the right; standing in front of black background with banner reading Excellence in Education: Watch us Soar.

As part of our Poetry Everywhere initiative, we’ve been delivering libraries of poetry books to elementary schools in Stanislaus County. On August 26, 2023, MoSt board member & Modesto’s current poet laureate Salvatore Salerno dropped off a trove of tasty poetry collections to Hart-Ransom Charter School. Pictured are Salerno and an employee of the school.

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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