Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!

Please join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and host Stella Beratlis as we present the first Second Tuesday Poetry reading of 2021! Helping us ring in this year are featured poets Sam Pereira and Dawn Trook, followed by a dynamic open mic.

Sam PereiraSam Pereira is from Los Banos, California; he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, where he was a student in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His books include The Marriage of the Portuguese (L’Epervier Press, 1978), Brittle Water (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1987),[3] and A Cafe in Boca, released in 2007 by Tebot Bach. In December, 2020, Nine Mile Press published Pereira’s seventh collection of poems, True North and Untrue You.

Dawn TrookDawn Trook is a writer, theater producer, performer, and educator. She teaches writing at UC Merced. Though she focuses on non-traditional methods of poetry distribution, she has been published in The Rumpus, Ms Magazine, and several literary journals.

Join us at 7 via Zoom:  https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99542317135

Open mic signups at https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday

Dec 28

NAACP Virtual Showcase on TV 26

The NAACP Youth Video Contest, co-sponsored by MoSt, has come to a close, and you can see the results on local TV 26! The presentation will air on the following dates and times:

Dec 26th: 11am & 8pm

Dec 28th: 1pm & 8pm

Dec 30th: 11am & 8pm

MoSt Board Meeting

Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, January 7th, at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Poetry Book Club

Our MoSt Book Club is back on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 6:30, via Zoom meeting!

We’ll be discussing The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. There are copies available to borrow at the Modesto Public Library. If you’d like one, please email Vicki, our most wonderful librarian contact, at vsalinas@stanlibrary.org.  The discussion will be led by MoSt Board member Linda Scheller.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89965113712

Dec 08

New Year’s Poetry Challenge Starts Soon!

This year’s NYPC will begin on December 15th.   You’ll get your first prompt the night of the 14th!  If you’d like to jump in and join this genial—and hopefully challenging—poetry maelstrom, email us at info@mostpoetry.org.  You will receive a prompt a day for 30 days!  You can choose to write to all the prompts, some of the prompts, or none of the prompts.  It’s all for fun and to keep poetry swirling in the winter.  Toward the end of the 30 days, we’ll put out a call for any poem you’d like to share in an NYPC chapbook. 

Once again, Gary Thomas will be sending out poetry prompts and managing all matters NYPC-related.If you’d like to participate, you need to opt in, even if you’ve done this in the past. That way no one who doesn’t want these prompts gets them. Also, feel free to pass this opportunity on to whomever you think might be interested! The more the merrier!