The deadline for our first annual student chapbook contest has been extended to January 1st, 2017! If you or someone you know is interested in entering poetry in the contest, read more about the guidelines here on our official contest page.
Nov 24
Local Poetry Publication Opportunity!
From our friends at Stanislaus Connections:
Poetry about the themes of peace, justice and/or a sustainable environment can be submitted for A Gathering of Voices in Stanislaus Connections, a monthly publication of the Modesto Peace/Life Center. We accept original new and previously published poetry from poets of all ages.
Criteria for publishing: original poetry on topics listed above, a high resolution jpeg, and an activist/poetry bio.
Please send submissions to seekerseer@sbcglobal.net.
Website: www.stanislausconnections.org
Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on December 4th at 2 pm–feel free to print and distribute the flyer, available as a PDF right here.
Featured readers:
Stella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015) and co-editor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets. Alkali Sink was a nominee for the Northern California Book Award in poetry this year. Stella was also very recently appointed Modesto Poet Laureate for the 2016-2018 term. She lives in the Central Valley and works as a public librarian in Tracy.
Rhony Bhopla was born in London and raised in California. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Sacramento Poetry Center, is the editor of Poetry Now, and moderates a weekly poetry workshop at the Sacramento Library. Rhony holds a Bachelor of Science with a minor in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Davis, and a multiple-subject teaching credential from San Francisco State University. Her work appears in: Medusa’s Kitchen, Brevities, Sacramento Voices, Flumes, among others. Ceremony, Rhony’s chapbook, includes reveries on ancestral themes.
debee loyd lives in modesto, writing, making music, teaching and reaching to put eager fingers on faux-ivory keys. Gathering inspiration from everywhere.
creds: one chapbook, noon, twilight, midnight, published by Kathy Kieth, Rattlesnake Press, 2005
time in the poet laureate box for the city of modesto
hours and fortunes spent chasing elusive spaces in my brain where the best poetry hides. Finally decided to excavate on my own.
“poems visit like rain. Am always waiting for the next downpour”.
Gillian Wegener has had poetry published in Spillway, Packinghouse Review, Sow’s Ear, and Wherewithal. Her chapbook Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other was published by In the Grove Press in 2001, and her first full-length collection of poetry, The Opposite of Clairvoyance was published in 2008 by Sixteen Rivers Press. Her second collection, This Sweet Haphazard, will be published in early 2017. In the meantime, she hosts the monthly 2nd Tuesday Reading Series, is founding president of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, and served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto from 2012-2016.
Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog *Date Change
Our usual Second Tuesday reading is being held a week later — same time, same place — with Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and Alice Anderson. Come join us for a reading followed by our usual open mic!
MoSt Board Meeting
Our next Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26th, at 6:30 pm at Tom Portwood’s home. Please contact info@mostpoetry.org for more information, if you would like to attend. All members are welcome.