The Parks, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. Entries Due byFriday, April 4, 2025. Contest Winners Winners will be notified by email (or mail, when email is unavailable.) Poets will be invited to read their winning poems on Sunday, June …
Join Zoe Byron, 2024-2025 Youth Poet Laureate of Stanislaus County, as she reads poems in celebration of National Poetry Month. Be sure to bring a poem or two to share at the Open Mic, following Zoe's reading. They don't have to be poems you've written! Just come have some fun with us. At the Salida …
Please join us as we bid a fond farewell to 2024-2025 Youth Poet Laureate Zoe Byron, whose tenure as youth laureate is complete at the end of May. She's the second ever Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate and has done a beautiful job representing the voice of youth through her poems. This final reading will …
We’ll be celebrating our incoming youth poet laureate, Valentina Zeff, at a reading/reception at Modesto Junior College’s Science Community Center. Come listen to a few poems, meet youth poets, and learn about the youth poet laureate program. Valentina Zeff is a sixteen-year-old poet from Modesto, California who is currently enrolled in the International Baccalaureate program …
Mini Author Biography Workshop & Youth Poet Laureate Q & A Valentina Zeff, current Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate, answers your questions! Join us on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. as Youth Poet Laureate Valentina Zeff shares tips on how to write an author bio. This is great to have when you're submitting …
Woven Words Tiny Poem Contest: Teen Voices from the Central Valley, presented by MoSt Poetry's Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program, is now open for submissions from Stanislaus County high school students grades 9-12. Poets are invited to submit 1-3 very short poems (3-5 lines). The contest is free and open to anyone living in or …
