Jan 17
From our Special Guest Poet Indigo Moor: Poetry is not naive. It is a concise language that artistically expresses anemotionally constructed moment. Getting into and out of the poem should be akin to stepping into a flame and exiting a nearly frozen stream… or vice versa. Between these precise bookends, we must exercise a balancing …
Jan 13
Don’t forget to come to the next installment of our FREE Poetry Book Club, coming up on Wednesday, January 23rd at the Modesto Library from 6:30 to 7:30pm. We’ll be looking at and discussing Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai, an award-winning writer, photographer, and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. Read more about her on …
Nov 14
We have officially posted information on our 7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, taking place on February 2, 2019, with featured Guest Poet Indigo Moor, Sacramento’s Poet Laureate. If you’ve never attended one of our festivals before, you can expect a day of poetry readings, workshops, luncheons, and you can even enter our annual poetry contest …
Oct 18
You’re invited to burn it all down to a pile of ashes (figuratively) so we can start all over again. Please join Modesto poet laureate Stella Beratlis, Shanyn Avila, and Tom Portwood us for a night of poetry & community & friendship. Featuring guests Manny Moreno, Lillian Vallee, members of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle, …
Sep 12
Join us this Saturday, September 15th at the Downtown Modesto Library for our final Summer Poetry Workshop of 2018, Write a Poem, Read a Poem with Gary Thomas and Gillian Wegener. Attendees will be guided through the poem-writing process and learn helpful hints and tips for reading your work aloud! The workshop is FREE AND …
