MoSt Annual Gala

2016GalaPosterJoin us during our open house for food and drink, music, a silent auction, and poetry. Funds raised at this benefit will help MoSt Poetry Center to continue to bring poetry to schools, senior centers, and community organizations. Just this year, we have held our annual poetry festival in February, are working on establishing a chapbook series for local up-and-coming poets, and are partnering with the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock to bring United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to the Carnegie for a reading and workshop.

Music by Dr. David Chapman and Travis Silvers of the Modesto Junior College Music Department. Silent auction items to include gift baskets, arts and crafts, gift certificates, and more! Please contact info@mostpoetry.org if you have a silent auction item to donate.

Tickets $20 each; includes food and beverage. Tickets are available from MoSt board members, at the door, or online at Eventbrite–just click below.

Eventbrite - Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center Annual Benefit Celebration

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

Come to the Barkin’ Dog on Tuesday, January 12 for a great meal and some great poetry. The reading starts at 6:00 and this month will feature the terrific Kate Asche and poets from the New Year’s Poetry Challenge. Don’t miss out!

Our featured reader will be Kate Asche. Her poetry has appeared in The Missouri Review (audio online) and in Bellingham Review, RHINO, and elsewhere. Her poem “Incoming” was selected by Camille Dungy for the summer 2015 issue of Colorado Review. A graduate of the UC Davis creative writing progroma, she teaches workshops in Sacramento and is contributig editor at Under the Gum Tree. Follow her at social media and at www.kateasche.com. Her chapbook, Our Day in the Labyrinth, came out from Finishingline Press in 2015.

Also this evening, we’ll celebrate the completion of the 7th annual New Year’s Poetry Challenge and hear poems from this year’s poets! See you at the Barkin’ Dog!

Deadline: Poets’ Corner Contest

March 11th is the deadline for this year’s Modesto Poets’ Corner contest! The guidelines are up at https://www.modestogov.com/prnd/poet_corner.asp. Share the link and let everyone and their parents know that this contest is out there!

Dec 07

Join the New Year’s Poetry Challenge

It’s that time of year again! The 7th annual New Year’s Poetry Challenge will start on December 10 and run for 30 days. Each day you will receive a prompt via email. Whether or not you choose to write to the prompt is up to you. No one checks in on your progress and you don’t have to report in at any point. These are just for fun. You can write every day, you can write only when the poetry muse moves you, or you can save them up for later. Toward the end of the 30 days, we’ll put out a call for poems and if you’d like, you can submit your favorite poem from this year’s Challenge. All poems submitted will be compiled into a chapbook; these will be sold to cover printing costs, but nothing more, so they usually run about two or three dollars each. So join the fun! Send an email to info@mostpoetry.org to be added to the list.
And do feel free to share this with poets near and far. The more, the merrier!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

The Second Tuesday Poetry Series

is happening at

the Barkin’ Dog Grill!

~~940 11th Street, Modesto~~

Join us on December 8 at 6:00p.m.

for a great reading,

and come and enjoy a great dinner too.

 

Ed Bearden

Ed Bearden is Modesto’s immediate past poet laureate and recipient of the 2007 literary arts award. His poetry has received three Pushcart prize nominations. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and one full length collection, Riding the Tractor. He has also authored a book of humor and a collection of more than 80 articles published by local newspapers.

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Roberta Bearden
Roberta is a poet, a painter, and a musician. She has been writing poetry for thirty years. She recently had her first full-length poetry book On The Museum Steps published.  She plays ukulele with a small band through Memorial Hospitals complimentary therapies for cancer survivors.  She was selected Outstanding Woman in Stanislaus County in 1991 for her volunteer work with people with disabilities.

Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share!

Download the PDF flyer here. For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org.