Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center

Poetry on Sunday Series @ Carnegie
2015-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our next installment of the quarterly Poetry on Sunday series, featuring Louise Kantro, Virginia Dall, Paul Neumann and One Performing Arts Dancing Poetry. This event is FREE and open to the public, with an open mic following the reading. Join us in celebrating the spoken word!
Download a PDF flyer by clicking here!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2015-01-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Join us on Jan. 13 for featured readers Soul Vang from Fresno, author of To Live Here (Imaginary Friend Press, 2014) and Yu-Han Chao from Merced, author of We Grow Old: 53 Chinese Love Poems (Backwater Press, 2009). You can read more about them on the attached flyer and at their websites: www.soulvang.com and yuhanchao.net. This will be an especially great reading because we will also be celebrating the publication of the 6th annual New Year’s Poetry Challenge booklet. See you there!

MoSt Board Meeting
2014-12-14 14:00 - 16:00
Our next Board meeting is scheduled for Sunday, December 14 at 2:00 at Tom Portwood’s home. Please contact info@mostpoetry.org if you would like to attend and need directions.

The ILL LIST 11
2014-12-13 20:00 - 22:00 | State Theatre of Modesto, 1307 J Street , Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is proud to help co-sponsor this year’s sold-out slam poetry invitational, The ILL LIST, at The State Theatre. Come join us for an exciting and raucous evening of poetry!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2014-12-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Second Tuesday Poetry Series continues with readings from Raina J. Leon and Dimitri Keriotis. Raina is a poet from the East Bay, whose book, Boogeyman Dawn, will just knock your socks off. Dimiti is a prose writer from MJC whose first collection of short stories, A Quiet Time, just came out this fall. I know both of these people will be wonderful to hear. The fun will start at 6:00. Our featured readers will be followed by an open mic, so bring a poem or two to share. Here’s the flyer (PDF) — please post, print, and share to your heart’s content. The more, the merrier!

MoSt Poetry Board Meeting
2014-11-20 18:30 - 20:00
Board members and other interested folks are welcome to join us for our monthly board meeting! 6:30 p.m. For more information, please contact info@mostpoetry.org

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
2014-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill! Join us on November 11 at 6:00p.m. for a great reading with HELEN WICKES and FLORA CARTER, and come and enjoy a great dinner too. Open mic after the reading, so bring a poem or two to share! Click here to download a PDF flyer.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog Grill
2014-10-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
This month at the Barkin’ Dog we will feature Sonoma County poet Katherine Hastings and Modesto poet Dana Koster.

Here is a PDF flyer with more information, so please print, post, forward, and otherwise share.

And don’t forget, the featured readers will be followed by our Most Excellent Open Mic, so be sure to bring a poem or two to share.

Pathways Potluck and Poetry Reading
2014-10-05 | Ed and Roberta Bearden’s backyard, Modesto, CA, United States
On October 5th MoSt will host a poetry reading and potluck for Pathways, an organization helping youth transition out of foster care. For more information about the merits of Pathways, and to receive the guidelines for submitting poems for a chapbook the sales of which will benefit Pathways, please contact info@mostpoetry.org. We hope you will consider joining us for this worthwhile event. It promises to be a memorable afternoon of poetry, food, and friends.

Yours truly,
Tom Myers
Gordon Preston
Mark Nicoll-Johnson

for the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center

Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie Arts Center
2014-08-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Carnegie Arts Center, Gemperle Gallery, 250 N. Broadway Ave., Turlock, CA, United States
The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) is pleased to announce the third in a series of quarterly poetry readings, The Poetry on Sunday Series, hosted by Carnegie Arts Center (Gemperle Gallery), 250 N. Broadway, Turlock, California on Sunday, August 24, 2014 at 2 pm. The featured readers in August for The Poetry on Sunday Series reading will be Sheila D. Landre, Justin Souza, Linda Gordon Sawyer, and Modesto’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, Ed Bearden. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public. An Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring your words to share.
For more information, please see the attached press release.

Standiford Place Poetry Reading
2014-08-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Standiford Place, 3420 Shawnee Dr, Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
MoSt Poetry members will once again be joining together to read beloved poems for the residents of Standiford Place!

Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog Grill
2014-08-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
This month at the Barkin’ Dog we will feature Los Angeles poet Lynne Thompson and Stanislaus County poet Linda Scheller.

Attached is a PDF flyer with more information, so please print, post, forward, and otherwise share.

And don’t forget, the featured readers will be followed by our Most Excellent Open Mic, so be sure to bring a poem or two to share.

MoSt Poetry Board Meeting
2014-07-27 14:30 - 16:30
Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, July 27 at 2:30 at Tom Portwood’s home. This meeting will serve as our ‘annual’ meeting and will include reports from the president, secretary, and treasurer as well as a budget for the next year, and a membership report from our veep. We will also be discussing the bylaws (newly updated!) and next steps toward being a non profit, and various projects like the festival and the chapbook contest. In addition, we need to discuss not only bringing in new members but appreciating the members we have.
Please contact info@mostpoetry.org for details.

Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center Gala
2014-05-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
Save the date! The benefit and gala celebration for the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will be held on Sunday, May 4 from 2:00-5:00 pm at the Barkin’ Dog Grill. Join us for an afternoon of music, art, food, and poetry, and help support one of our areas newest arts endeavors. Contact us at info@mostpoetry.org for tickets!

California Federation of Chapparal Poets Annual Convention
2014-04-25 - 2014-04-26 | Wood Colony Hall, 3549 Dakota Ave, Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
The weekend of April 25-26, the annual convention for the California Federation of Chaparral Poets will be held right here in Modesto. The registration deadline is April 12. If you’d like more info, please contact Cleo Griffith at cleor36@yahoo.com

Deadline: 19th Annual Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest
2014-04-12
The 19th Annual Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest is underway. This contest is for students living in or attending school in Stanislaus County. The deadline is April 12. Forms are available at county schools, McHenry Museum, the Mistlin Gallery, the downtown Modesto library, or the Salida library. For more information contact Cleo at cleor36@yahoo.com.

Second Tuesday Poetry Reading
2014-04-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th Street, Modesto!
Join us on April 8 at 6:00p.m. for a great reading, and come and enjoy a great dinner too.
BEVERLY BURCH’s previous poetry collection, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004) won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Two non-fiction books on psychoanalytic theory and sexual orientation have also been published: On Intimate Terms (U. of Ill. Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). An Atlanta native, she’s lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area and has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, CA.
MURRAY SILVERSTEIN’s first collection, Any Old Wolf (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006) received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. Silverstein produced the Sixteen Rivers compact disc, Naming the Rivers (2008), and served as executive editor for the press’s anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, The Louisville Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.
Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share!
For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org

MoStPoetry Board Meeting
2014-04-06 14:30 - 16:30
Our next meeting is set for Sunday, April 6 at 2:30 at the home of Ed and Roberta Bearden.

Poetry on Sunday Series
2014-02-23 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 our quarterly reading series, featuring Nancy Haskett, Salvatore Salerno, Flora Carter, and Sam Pierstorff. Free and open to the public, with an open mic following the reading. Download the February 23 Carnegie Poster and feel free to share.

Modesto Poetry Festival 2014
2014-02-08 09:00 - 16:00 | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1528 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA, 95355, United States
Save the Date! The Modesto Poetry Festival will be held on Saturday, February 8. It will feature poet Patrice Vecchione doing a workshop, poet Gary Thomas doing another workshop, a lovely lunch, winning poems, and lots of poetic camaraderie. An excellent flier with all kinds of good info is attached for your convenience: MoSt Poetry Festival flier. We’d love to see you there!
Registration deadline: January 20th.

High Tea & Poetry @ Queen Bean
2014-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Queen Bean Coffee House, 1126 14th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
This new monthly reading series from playshows.org will continue on the first Thursday of each month and will have both featured poets and an open mic. It is from 7-9pm and will have an intermission. Go and enjoy! More info: http://playshows.org/events-.html

Second Tuesday Poetry Reading
2014-01-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The Second Tuesday Poetry Reading at the Barkin’ Dog will feature Brian Medina and Indigo Moore. The reading starts at 6:00 with an open mic to follow, so bring a poem or two to share.

MoSt Poetry Board Meeting
2014-01-05 14:30 - 16:00 | Standiford Place, 3420 Shawnee Dr, Modesto, CA, 95350, United States
Our next Board meeting will be held on Sunday, Jan. 5 at Standiford Place.

Deadline: Snail Mail Review
2013-12-31
Snail Mail Review is accepting submissions for its next issue until December 31. Find out more at http://www.snailmailreview.com/

Contest Submissions Due for MoSt Poetry Festival
2013-12-20
Contest submissions to the MoSt Poetry Festival are due! And even if you don’t send poems for the contest, sign up to come the festival. It will feature poet Patrice Vecchione doing a workshop, poet Gary Thomas doing another workshop, a lovely lunch, winning poems, and lots of poetic camaraderie. An excellent flier with all kinds of good info is attached for your convenience: MoSt Poetry Festival flier. We’d love to see you there!

Deadline: Song of the San Joaquin
2013-12-15
The Song of the San Joaquin is accepting submissions for its winter issue until December 15. Contact Cleo at cleor36@yahoo.com for submission guidelines and information.

Quercus Review Annual Book Award Contest Deadline
2013-12-13
Today is the last day to get your manuscripts in to the Quercus Review Annual Book Award contest. Guidelines can be found here: http://quercusreviewpress.com/2013/06/22/annual-book-award-2013/

Second Tuesday Poetry Reading
2013-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
The Second Tuesday Poetry Reading at the Barkin’ Dog will feature Paul Neumann and Gordon Preston, both reading from their new books. The reading starts at 6:00 with an open mic to follow, so bring a poem or two to share. A flyer for this reading is here: December 2013 Flyer PDF.

The Ill List 10 Poetry Slam Invitational
2013-12-07 20:00 - 23:00 | State Theatre of Modesto, 1307 J Street , Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
From the State Theatre’s website: Join us for the 10-year anniversary of the most prestigious and highly anticipated spoken-word event in the Central Valley, featuring previous ILL LIST champions and a few fresh faces – all of whom are renowned spoken-word artists, national and international slam poetry award recipients, most having appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Verses & Flow, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and elsewhere in the media.
Who will become the ultimate slam champion? Through three rounds of original poetry, poets will match metaphors and battle rhyme for rhyme in their quest for $1,500 in cash prizes and the right to be crowned “The ILL LIST Grand Slam Champion.” Randomly selected judges from the audience will award points to poets based on the strength of their poems and the quality of their performance. Cheering, yelling, booing, hissing, whistling, and good-natured heckling are welcome and expected during this world-class literary boxing match. (This is a free-speech event.)
Doors at 7; show at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $20, $27.50, $35, and $50

High Tea & Poetry @ Queen Bean
2013-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Queen Bean Coffee House, 1126 14th St, Modesto, CA, 95354, United States
This new monthly reading series from playshows.org will continue on the first Thursday of each month and will have both featured poets and an open mic. It is from 7-9pm and will have an intermission. Go and enjoy! This month’s featured poet is Robert Zenz. More info: http://playshows.org/events-.html
