Join us for a new event…Coffee, Tea, and Poetry, a way to start the day with poetry! Share what poetry collection you’re reading now and a poem or two from that collection.
Bring your chosen morning beverage and join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
For more detailed Zoom information, please check our latest Poetry Everywhere newsletter or contact us at info@mostpoetry.org!
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 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 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
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
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.
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
