Category: Workshops

Write a Tiny Poem: Workshop with Stanislaus Youth Laureate Valentina Zeff

YPL workshop Sat Feb 28 at 1 pm on Zoom

Join us on Zoom this Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. as Youth Poet Laureate Valentina Zeff shares tips on how to write a tiny poem for the Woven Words Teen Contest. She guides you through the contest submission process and shows you how easy it can be to be a PUBLISHED POET! PLUS …

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The Poem Heard in Plain Sight – Workshop with Guest Artist Tama L. Brisbane

1:00-3:00 p.m. PT Saturday, August 31, 2024 in the Modesto Library

The Letter: Writing Resistance in Epistolary Poems

image for Sep 19 poetry workshop

Please check our Events for details on this free poetry workshop scheduled for September 19, 2020 at 1:00 pm.

Poetry This Week!

August and September are great months for poetry in Stanislaus County–especially this week! Don’t forget to come to the Barkin’ Dog on Tuesday the 13th for our monthly Second Tuesday reading, featuring Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao (more details here). Also, we’ve got two events coming up this weekend–our penultimate Summer Poetry Workshop for this …

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Poetry Festival Workshop Theme Announced

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 …

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