Nov 20

DEADLINE EXTENDED! NAACP Youth Video Contest

MoSt is proud to help co-sponsor this contest!

Do you use artistic expression to help cope with COVID-19 and its impact on your community? Can you record a 3-5 minute video showcasing your creative activities?

NAACP is hosting a Virtual Showcase for you to show off your talent! We are looking for individuals between the ages 14-25 to participate. Every participant will be given a T-Shirt for participation in addition to being placed into a drawing to win some prizes. Your video will be posted on many social media platforms & live TV! If you are 17 and under, please submit a Release Form with your parent signature, along with your video for complete submission. If you haven’t already, please check out our sample video of what we are looking for. In order to participate, you MUST be a resident of Stanislaus County.

The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th.

Click here for more information and the entry form.

MoSt Board Meeting

Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, December 3rd, at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Nov 08

NAACP Youth Video Contest Looking for Entries!

MoSt is proud to help co-sponsor this contest!

Do you use artistic expression to help cope with COVID-19 and its impact on your community? Can you record a 3-5 minute video showcasing your creative activities?

NAACP is hosting a Virtual Showcase for you to show off your talent! We are looking for individuals between the ages 14-25 to participate. Every participant will be given a T-Shirt for participation in addition to being placed into a drawing to win some prizes. Your video will be posted on many social media platforms & live TV! If you are 17 and under, please submit a Release Form with your parent signature, along with your video for complete submission. If you haven’t already, please check out our sample video of what we are looking for. In order to participate, you MUST be a resident of Stanislaus County.

The contest deadline is November 21st.

Click here for the informational video and entry form.

Deadline: NAACP Youth Video Contest

MoSt is proud to help co-sponsor this contest!

Do you use artistic expression to help cope with COVID-19 and its impact on your community? Can you record a 3-5 minute video showcasing your creative activities?

NAACP is hosting a Virtual Showcase for you to show off your talent! We are looking for individuals between the ages 14-25 to participate. Every participant will be given a T-Shirt for participation in addition to being placed into a drawing to win some prizes. Your video will be posted on many social media platforms & live TV! If you are 17 and under, please submit a Release Form with your parent signature, along with your video for complete submission. If you haven’t already, please check out our sample video of what we are looking for. In order to participate, you MUST be a resident of Stanislaus County.

The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th.

Click here for more information and the entry form.

Poetry on Sunday Series

Please join us for the December edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday, December 13th at 2:00 P. M.  While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center, this time we’ll be on ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84608931424

Join us, too, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! And please feel free to download and print our PDF flyer.

Jay DeshpandeJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books) and the new chapbook The Umbrian Sonnets (PANK).  His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Kundiman fellowship, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Saltonstall Arts Colony.  He teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

 

Prageeta SharmaPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art.  A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.​