Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center

Summer Poetry Workshop Series
2020-08-22 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
We’re really excited to share this poetry workshop with you:
The Short Poem Has Something to Say.
Facilitated by Gillian Wegener, this workshop will give participants the chance to read, write, and celebrate the short poem.
Bring your favorite short poem (under 14 lines) to share!
Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 1:00; free and open to the public.
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Poetry on Sunday Series
2020-08-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Please join us for the August edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday, August 16th at 2:00 P. M., featuring three wonderful poets: Linda Jackson Collins, Bob Stanley, and Jenny Tang! While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center, this time we’ll be on ZOOM. Join us, too, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers!

Our Featured Readers:
Originally from Washington, D.C., Linda Jackson Collins studied English and Business at Vanderbilt. Linda rediscovered poetry about a decade ago, and her first book, Painting Trees, came out from Random Lane Press in 2019.
Linda served on the Sacramento Poetry Center’s board for many years and edited its poetry journal, Tule Review. She continues to write and collaborate with other poets from her home in Carmichael where she lives with her husband, Rob.

Bob Stanley has organized and led writing programs and classes for nearly fifty years. He has edited two regional anthologies and published three collections of his own work: Walt Whitman Orders a Cheeseburger (Rattlesnake Press, 2009), Eleven Blue Strings (little m press, 2012), and Miracle Shine (CW Books, 2013). Bob served as Poet Laureate of Sacramento City and County from 2009 to 2012, and he lives in Sacramento with his wife, Joyce Hsiao.

Jenny Tang grew up traveling back and forth between Phoenix, Arizona and Beijing, China. She was first exposed to poetry through attending CalSlam performances at UC Berkeley, and has been featured in LoReLi (Look Read Listen) China, performed as a Sacrificial Poet in the 2019 Chill List Team Competition, and a winner of the 2019 Poet’s Corner Poetry Contest. She is currently a member of the Central Valley Poets Collective.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
2020-08-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on August 11th, 2020, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Featured readers are Jeanne Wagner and TBA. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our email blast with announcements.
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Topic: Second Tuesday Poetry with Jeanne Wagner and Sara Coito
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Summer Poetry Workshop Series
2020-07-18 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
We All Belong Here: Poems of Kindness and Connection
How can we be kind, or make connections with each other, even when to be compassionate is inconvenient, uncomfortable, or even dangerous? Using poems from Healing the Divide (edited by James Crews) and others as prompts, and our own drafts as examples, this workshop will explore how shared poetry can counteract exclusions, encourage equity, and give us strength to carry on in troubling times.
Gary Thomas will facilitate this workshop on Saturday, July 18 from 1:00-2:30 on Zoom. We will send out a Zoom invitation earlier that week as an email blast and on our Facebook page.

Poetry Book Club
2020-07-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Our MoSt Summer Book Club is back on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 6:30, and you don’t even have to drive to the library because it is a Zoom meeting!
We’ll be discussing Natasha Tretheway’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Native Guard. 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.
Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South — where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey’s resonant and beguiling collection is a haunting conversation between personal experience and national history. (from the Houghton Mifflin website)
We’ll send out the Zoom invite via Mailchimp and our Facebook page later this month, so stay tuned!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!
2020-07-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on July 14th, 2020, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer above for more information on our featured poets, Connie Post and Michael Meyerhofer.
Live links for reading here:
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MoSt Annual Meeting
2020-07-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our Annual Meeting is open to all MoSt members! Join us for a Zoom meeting on Sunday, July 12 at 3:00. We’ll be reflecting on the past year, discussing new initiatives, electing/re-electing board members, and getting excited about all the MoSt events we have planned.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to info@mostpoetry.org with MEETING in the subject line, and we’ll send you the Zoom invite. If you are unable to attend, but interested in all the goings-on, we can send you the minutes as soon as those are available. And, of course, if you are interested in becoming part of our board, please let us know!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - On Zoom!
2020-06-09 18:00 - 19:30 | CA
We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on June 9th, 2020, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Please see the flyer above for more information on our featured poets, Karen Terrey and Dane Cervine.

Summer Poetry Workshops 2020
2020-06-06 13:00 - 14:30 | CA
Join us on June 6th for our first Summer Poetry Workshop of 2020 with MoSt Board member Linda Scheller. The topic is “Correspondence and Connections” and it will be a Zoom workshop from 1:00-2:30. Please contact us at info@mostpoetry.org to receive detailed Zoom information!

All experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series.

All workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Friends of the Modesto Library.

MoSt Board Meeting
2020-06-04 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, June 4th, at 6:30 pm, most likely via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León
2020-05-12 18:00 - 19:30 | CA
Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León’s PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales.
Poet, essayist, and translator Ulalume González de León believed that “Everything has already been said,” and, thus, that each act of creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called Ulalume González de León “the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” recognizing the visionary quality of her work.
Plagios (Plagiarisms), just out this year from Sixteen Rivers Press, is the first of three bilingual volumes of González de León’s work. This first volume presents several short collections of poems González de León produced from 1968 to 1971, each of which explores the ephemeral nature of identity and its dependence on the ever-shifting ground of language and memory.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Terry Ehret, one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, has published four collections of poetry, most recently Night Sky Journey from Kelly’s Cove Press. Her literary awards include the National Poetry Series, the California Book Award, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, a nomination for the Northern California Book Reviewer’s Award, and five Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2004–2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches writing.
Nancy J. Morales, a first-generation American of Puerto Rican parents, earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers College, a master’s in teaching English as a Second Language from Adelphi University, and a doctorate in education from Teachers College at Columbia University. She has taught at Dominican University, College of Marin, Sonoma State University, and other schools, from elementary to graduate levels. Currently she is a board member for the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association and teaches Spanish to private clients.
John Johnson’s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals, including Boxcar Poetry Review, Clade Song, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Web Conjunctions. He is a long-time student of the Spanish language and has studied letter-press printing with Iota Press of Sebastopol, producing chapbooks and bilingual broadsides.
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Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog - on Zoom!
2020-05-12 18:00 - 19:00 | CA
Save the date! We will be holding our Second Tuesday poetry reading series on May 12th, 2020, via Zoom. We hope you’ll join us. Check back here for more information soon, or email us at info@mostpoetry.org.

7th Annual MoSt Benefit - CANCELED
2020-04-05 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
It is with deep regret that we’ve cancelled this year’s annual benefit for the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center which was scheduled for April 5. It is more important that all our supporters and friends stay well and safe, so we are forgoing the benefit this year. We won’t be rescheduling, but we do hope to be back with shining colors and bells on in 2021.

Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest Deadline
2020-04-03 | CA
Today is the postmark deadline. Please see the Aileen Jaffa contest page for more information!

MoSt Board Meeting
2020-04-02 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, April 2nd, at 6:30 pm at the house of one of our members. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Second Tuesday Series featuring Josh McKinney & Lisa Dominguez Abraham
2020-03-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Braid fresh flowers into your hair and perform pagan rituals as we ponder the newly-hatched world of SPRING.
Or you could just come to this poetry reading!
Join Modesto poet laureate Stella Beratlis as she presents featured poets Josh McKinney and Lisa Dominguez Abraham.
Joshua McKinney’s most recent book of poetry is Small Sillion (Parlor Press, 2019). His work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. He is the recipient of The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is coeditor of the online ecopoetry zine, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University, Sacramento.
Lisa Dominguez Abraham’s poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Review, North American Review and Poetry East. Her collection Mata Hari Blows a Kiss won the 2016 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest, and her book Coyote Logic came out from Blue Oak Press in February 2019. She works at Cosumnes River College.
Bring a poem to share during our open mic following the featured poets’ readings. Since it’s almost spring, let’s explore the themes darkness and light.

Deadline Poets' Corner Contest: postmark date
2020-03-07 | CA
The Modesto Poets’ Corner Contest is now accepting entries for 2020! This year’s theme is “Kindness and Connection: How do we help to heal the divisions between people, ideas and beliefs? How can we be kind, or make connections with each other, even when being compassionate is inconvenient, uncomfortable or even dangerous?” As always, don’t worry about answering all the guiding questions – they’re designed as a jumping-off point. Feel free to write about whatever kindness and/or connection means to you! And remember, we also accept poems on any topic of your choice in the general category. They do not have to be written recently, they just have to be unpublished.

Entries will be accepted via mail using the entry form below or via email at poetscornermodesto@gmail.com. All work must be postmarked by Saturday. March 7, 2020. Winners will be notified in a post here, on Facebook, and by email in April. We’ll have our annual winners’ reading on Sunday, May 3 at 1:00 p.m. in the McHenry Museum. Happy writing!

Deadline: 4th Annual Lee Nicholson-George Rogers Poetry Contest
2020-03-01 | CA
MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER
THE FOURTH ANNUAL LEE NICHOLSON – GEORGE ROGERS POETRY CONTEST
CONTEST GUIDELINES
MONETARY PRIZES!!!
DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2020
ABOUT LEE NICHOLSON AND GEORGE ROGERS
Beloved by generations of their students, Lee Nicholson and George Rogers dedicated much of their lives to teaching and inspiring the youth of our community. Lee Nicholson was an instructor at Modesto Junior College for thirty-two years, and had earlier taught at Turlock High School. A Modesto native, George Rogers taught for thirty years at Orville Wright Elementary School in Modesto. Both Lee and George were highly accomplished poets and lovers of the creative process, and both will long be remembered for their passionate devotion to the young people whose lives they touched.
This contest is open to all poets residing in Stanislaus County who are 16 to 25 years of age.
􀀀 Send up to three (3) poems, with subjects and themes of your own choosing
􀀀 Poems must be typed in 12 point, Times New Roman, with 1-inch margins
􀀀 32 line limit; longer poems will not be considered
􀀀 Poems must be the poet’s original work and previously unpublished
􀀀 If sending through regular mail, please send two copies of each poem – one copy with the poet’s name, address, email, phone number in the upper right hand corner, as well as the title of the poem, and a second copy of the poem, with the title of the poem, but without the poet’s name, address, e-mail, and phone number.
􀀀 If sending through email, send poems as doc or docx attachments (one attachment with page divisions is fine; three attachments with one poem each is fine); include two copies of each poem – one copy with the poet’s name, address, email, phone number in the upper right hand corner, as well as the title of the poem and a second copy of the poem, with the title of the poem, but without the poet’s name, address, e-mail, and phone number; include CONTEST in the subject line of the email.
2 ways to submit:
Through regular mail to:
MoSt Poetry Center
PO Box 578940
Modesto, CA 95357
or by email to info@mostpoetry.org
Include the word CONTEST in the subject line of your email.
PRIZES:
First Place (awarded for best poem): $100.00
Second Place: $60.00
Third Place: $40.00
Submission dates: November 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020
Poets will be notified via email or phone following the judging process.
Selected poems will be published in a chapbook. All poets submitting
poems will receive two (2) copies of the chapbook
For more information contact: info@mostpoetry.org

Words Worth Speaking: Brandon Leake and Angela Drew
2020-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Modesto Junior College Library & Learning Center, 435 College Ave., Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
The MJC Library & Learning Center and the MJC Black Student Union invite you to a poetry event at the East Campus L & LC.
Featuring performers Brandon Leake and Angela Drew.
Bring a poem to read + submit your work to the WWS zine.
Brandon Leake is an award-winning spoken word poet, artistic educator, and motivational speaker from Stockton, CA. His creative blend of art, charisma, and passion tailored to his own unique personal narrative has taken him across the world as a speaker and performer. Brandon has performed in New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and 36 states around the country for his Dark Side Tour which promotes his first published poetry chapbook and his album Deficients: A Tale From My Dark Side, a project rooted in transparency and healing. Brandon is also the founder and CEO of Called To Move – CTM, an arts organization whose mission is to aid youth in self-actualization and personal development through poetry. Through Called to Move, Brandon had led youth workshops around the world and in his hometown of Stockton.
Angela Drew is a teacher, mother, poet, and spoken word performer who has loved the rhythm of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley, CA, she began writing at age eight and has always understood that words have the power to soothe, stir, or solidify connection. Thus, her lifelong love affair with storytelling began. Angela has performed at various venues throughout the Modesto, Sacramento and Bay Areas, including Modesto Junior College, Modesto’s inaugural “Ill List Poetry Slam” at the State Theater, the Gallo Center for the Arts, in a Sankofa Community Theater production of The Journey—The African American Experience, and at various other venues. Her recent poetry is included in COLLISION VI, the February 2020 exhibit at the Mistlin Gallery which features poet-photographer collaborations

Collision VI: Intersection of Photography and Poetry
2020-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Mistlin Gallery, 1015 J Street, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
COLLISION VI: At the Intersection of Poetry and Photography
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 pm for artists reception and reading at the Mistlin Gallery. Featuring 17 poets, 17 photographers, and 2 painters who merged their talents to create singular work or art consisting of words and images.
Poets:
Gillian Wegener
Sara Coito
Josslyn Turner
Linda Scheller
Angela Drew
Theresa Rojas
Lynn Hansen
Melchor Sahagun
Dan Schmidt
Vielka Solano
Karen Baker
Stella Beratlis
Cristina Sandoval
Sheila Landre
debee lloyd
Lillian Vallee
Sal Salerno
Photographers:
David Schroeder
Rebecca Harvey
Miguel Trejo
Bill Harris
Em McLaren
Shirley Stevens
Carolyn Huff
Noah Wilson
Lorraine Nilson
Krystle Lisek
Dan Souza
Adrian Mendoza
Heath Vanderpol
John Wynn
Alyn Brereton
Peter David Lee
The COLLISION VI exhibit runs from Feb. 4 – 28.
COLLISION VI is a production of FotoModesto, sponsored by FocusOn, a not-for-profit corporation.

Poetry Out Loud County Competition
2020-02-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Little Theatre, MJC, 435 College Ave, Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest for students, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is proud to announce that we will be holding our county-level competition at the MJC Little Theatre on February 12th. Our county winners have earned places at the state level in recent years, so don’t miss the chance to witness this year’s contest!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2020-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Featured poets include Zaid Shlah. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

MoSt Board Meeting
2020-02-06 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, February 6th, at 6:30 pm at the house of one of our members. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Poetry on Sunday Series
2020-02-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for 2020’s first installment of our quarterly reading series! Click the image at right to download the PDF flyer, and see below for bios of our featured readers.
Barbara Swift Brauer is a freelance writer living in San Geronimo, California. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies as well as in art exhibitions and installations. She is the author of two collections from Sixteen Rivers Press: Rain, Like a Thief (2019) and At Ease in the Borrowed World (2013). With portrait artist Jackie Kirk, Barbara is coauthor of the nonfiction book, Witness: The Artist’s Vision in “The Face of AIDS” (Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996).
Bethanie Humphreys is a writer, editor, and mixed-media visual artist. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, SPC Art Gallery curator, Associate Editor for Tule Review, and was Editor-in-Chief for the 2015 American River Review. Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019, and her poetry, short fiction, and art have appeared in various publications in the U.S. and U.K. including: Artemis, Nonbinary Review, The Found Poetry Review, American River Review, and Sacramento Voices. She is a California Certified Naturalist and teaches creative writing workshops as a certified Amherst Writers and Artists method instructor.
Maya Khosla is the poet laureate of Sonoma County (2018–20). Her new poetry book is All the Fires of Wind and Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2019). Her work in the natural world has led her into the wild, to the page, and to the screen. She has documented forests, fire scientists, and firefighters talking about ways to be wise about wildfire. Maya’s work has taken her across coastal India, Kenya, and the United States. Her poems have also been collected in Keel Bone (Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, Bear Star Press) and in Heart of the Tearing (Red Dust Press). Her essays have appeared in Flyway, Yes Magazine, Humans and Nature, and elsewhere. She has written for the films Village of Dust, City of Water, and Shifting Undercurrents, and is working on a film about being “Firewise” in a time of climate change.

8th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival
2020-02-01 09:30 - 16:00 | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1528 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA, 95355, United States
We are thrilled to announce the details of our 8th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, coming up on February 1st, 2020!
Each year in February we organize and hold an all-day poetry festival featuring workshops, readings, and a featured poet. This year, we are proud to welcome Lee Herrick and Camille Norton as our guest poets and workshop leaders.
Join us on Saturday, February 1st, 2020 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Modesto for a day of poetry, learning, and inspiration! Click on the image at right to download the PDF flyer, and you can click here to download the registration form (which also has details about this year’s festival poetry contest).
Themes for this year’s contest are 1. The Graceful Stumble; 2. Handling Earth with Care; 3. Notre Dame; 4. Following a Thread. Submissions to the poetry contest must be postmarked by the CONTEST DEADLINE: JANUARY 11, 2020. Please see the form for more information.

Lee Herrick has authored three poetry books, Scar and Flower, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This
Many Miles from Desire. His poems have also appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (forthcoming in Spring, 2020 from Orison Books). Born in Daejeon, Korea, Lee served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College and Fresno City College.
Camille Norton’s first collection of poems, published by HarperPerennial, was a National Poetry Series winner in 2004. Other honors include the Grolier Prize in Poetry, accolades from the National Endowment
of the Humanities, and residencies at the MacDowell Art Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Professor of English at University of the Pacific in Stockton, Camille co-edited Resurgent: New Writing by Women, featuring experimental writing by women in literature, film, and the visual arts. Her latest poetry book is A Folio in the Dark (Sixteen Rivers).

Poetry Book Club
2020-01-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Stanislaus County Library, 1500 I Street, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
MoSt is pleased to announce another installment of our Poetry Book Club! Join us for a conversation about Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky. Copies of Deaf Republic will be available at the downtown Modesto library to check out in the near future.
The book club will be held Wednesday, January 22 at 6:30 in the conference room at the downtown library and will be facilitated by Stella Beratlis. See you there!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2020-01-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on January 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.

Poetry Festival Contest Deadline
2020-01-11 | CA
Today’s the postmark deadline for the poetry contest held at our annual Modesto Poetry Festival! For more information, take a look at the main event page.

MoSt Board Meeting
2020-01-09 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9th, at 6:30 pm at the house of one of our members. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2019-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on December 10th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so bring a poem or two to share.
