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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-1-2020/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191210T200000
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-12-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T193000
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, December 5th\, 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-12-2019/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the third 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. \nAsh Young currently lives in Modesto with her husband\, two sons\, and two Pomeranians. She writes poetry about her life\, and hopes to never be famous. \nBorn in Canada\, and of Iraqi heritage\, Zaid Shlah currently resides in Northern California with his family. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines\, journals\, and anthologies in both Canada and the U. S. In May of 2005\, he was awarded the American Academy of Poets Award. His first book of poetry\, Taqsim\, was published in the US and in Canada (Frontenac House\, 2006). His second book of poems and essays is entitled Clockwork (Frontenac House\, 2015). He teaches composition and literature at Modesto Junior College. \nLee Herrick is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower\, Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This Many Miles from Desire. His poems appear widely in literary magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies\, including Columbia Poetry Review\, The Poetry Foundation\, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice and Here: Poems for the Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama. He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (forthcoming in Spring 2020 by Orison Books). Born in Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States\, he served as Fresno Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-12-2019/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:MoSt is pleased to announce another installment of our Poetry Book Club! Join us for a conversation about  Blindspot by Teju Cole. Copies of Blindspot are available at the downtown Modesto library to check out. \nThe book club will be held Wednesday\, November 13 at 6:30 in the conference room at the downtown library and will be facilitated by Janette Jameson.  See you there!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-book-club-11-2019/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20191006T182818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191006T182818Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on November 12th 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-11-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191107T193000
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CREATED:20191006T182713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191006T182713Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, November 7th\, 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-nov-2019/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190923T180525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191006T182615Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on October 15th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto with featured readers Paul Neuman and Amy Miller. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-10-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T193000
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CREATED:20190923T180259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T180259Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, October 3rd\, 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-oct-2019/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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SUMMARY:Members' Book Exchange Party
DESCRIPTION:We’re having a party for our members! \nWhat: A book exchange open-house party! Arrive your duplicate or unwanted poetry books and trade for new-to-you poetry! \nWhere: At a member’s home in Modesto. \nWhen: September 28\, from 2pm to 5pm. \nWhy: To celebrate our members and share our love of poetry! \nJoin us for food\, drink and poetry joy! More formal invitations to come\, but pencil the date in today! And if you aren’t yet a member\, it isn’t too late! Join MoSt today and join us for this poetry celebration!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/members-book-exchange-party/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T203920Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Workshops 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our FINAL Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Tom Portwood will lead a workshop on Writing Poems of Social Justice — the Art of Empathy. \n\nAll experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series. \n\nAll workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Friends of the Modesto Library.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/summer-poetry-workshops-2019-4/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190812T004042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T232242Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Odilia Galván Rodríguez
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for a special upcoming poetry reading with poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez at the College Avenue United Church of Christ. \nAbout Odilia Galván Rodríguez (bio: University of Arizona Poetry Center) \nOdilia Galván Rodríguez\, poet\, writer\, editor\, educator\, and activist\, is the author of six volumes of poetry\, her latest\, The Nature of Things\, is a collaboration with Texas photographer\, Richard Loya\, by Merced College Press 2016. Also\, along with the late Francisco X. Alarcón\, she edited the award-winning anthology\, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice\, University of Arizona Press\, 2016.  This poetry of witness anthology\, the first of its kind\, because it came about because of the on-line organizing work of Alarcón\, Galván Rodriguez\, and other poet-activists which began as a response to the proposal of SB 1070\, the racial profiling law which was eventually passed by the Arizona State Legislature in 2010\, and later that year\, HB 2281which bans ethnic studies. With the advent of the Facebook page Poets Responding (to SB 1070) thousands of poems were submitted witnessing racism\, xenophobia\, and other social justice issues which culminated in the anthology. \nGalván Rodríguez has worked as an editor for various print media such as Matrix Women’s News Magazine\, Community Mural’s Magazine\, and Tricontinental Magazine in Havana\, Cuba. She is currently\, the editor of Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal online; facilitates creative writing workshops nationally\, and is director of Poets Responding (to SB 1070) and Love and Prayers for Fukushima\, both Facebook pages dedicated to bringing attention to social justice issues that affect the lives and wellbeing of many people and encouraging people to act. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies\, and literary journals on and offline. \nAs an activist\, she worked for the United Farm Workers of America AFL-CIO\, The East Bay Institute for Urban Arts\, has served on numerous boards and commissions\, and is currently active in Women’s organizations whose mission it is to educate around environmental justice issues and disseminate an indigenous world view regarding the earth and people’s custodial relationship to it. Odilia Galván Rodríguez has a long and rich history of working for social justice in solidarity with activists from all ethnic groups.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-reading-odilia-galvan-rodriguez/
LOCATION:College Avenue United Church of Christ\, 1341 College Ave\, Modesto\, CA\, 95350\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on September 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190907T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190907T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190812T002531Z
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SUMMARY:The Writers' Block @ Barnes & Noble
DESCRIPTION:Modesto’s Barnes and Noble is hosting The Writer’s Block\, an afternoon celebration of writing in our area\, on September 7 from noon to 5pm. This event will include panels\, readings\, and book signings. This is also a bookfair fundraiser benefiting Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt). Mention the bookfair or use the ID 12545562 and a percentage of the profits from your purchase will go back to MoSt to support the work we do promoting poetry throughout Stanislaus County. \nThis is going to be a great day! We hope you can stop by!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/the-writers-block-barnes-noble/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble\, 3501 McHenry Ave\, Suite E\, Modesto\, CA\, 95356\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190905T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190808T031002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190808T031002Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, September 5th\, 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-8-2019/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190818T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190724T212748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190724T212748Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry on Sunday Series
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the third 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. \nSara Coito is a Central Valley native whose claim to fame is that she and Megan Rapinoe share an alma mater. She seeks to explore ugly emotions\, the struggle and ease of intimacy\, and the plurality of devotion in her poetry. Her other passions include music\, making pictures\, working in kindergarten classrooms\, eggs for breakfast\, and snail mail. You can find her earlier work in Sigma Tau Delta’s Rectangle and University of Portland’s Writers magazine. Connect with her via email at coitosk@gmail.com or Instagram @thecoits. \nIngrid Keriotis is a former MJC English instructor. Her first book of poetry\, It Started with the Wild Horses\, was published in April and is available at ingridkeriotis.com. Ingrid currently teaches at Sierra College in Grass Valley. When it comes to writing poetry\, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” \nJoshua 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 co-editor of the online eco-poetry zine\, Clade Song. He teaches at California State University\, Sacramento.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-on-sunday-series-2/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190817T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190817T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190514T204751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T203843Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Workshops 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our third Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Gillian Wegener will lead a workshop on Poetry of Place. Write new poems inspired by other poems of place and some questions that will help you dig deep and find new creativity in writing about places that are important to us. \n\nAll experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series. \n\nAll workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Friends of the Modesto Library.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/summer-poetry-workshops-2019-3/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190813T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190724T213517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190812T002149Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on August 13th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto\, featuring poets Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao. An open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPos Moua is a Hmong-American writer\, educator\, and poet who lives in Merced with his wife and their five children. He is the author of the chapbook “Towards the World Where the Torches Are Burning” (Swan Scythe Press\, 2001)\, the first published work from a Hmong American poet. He has published work in How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology\, Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing\, UC Davis Poetry Review\, Sacramento’s “Poetry Now\,” and National Poetry.” Pos Moua’s new book\, Karst Mountains Will Bloom\, was published by Blue Oak Press in April 2019. \nYu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei\, Taiwan. Her poetry books & chapbooks were published by Another New Calligraphy\, BOAAT Press\, Dancing Girl Press\, and University of Nebraska Press. Her new short story collection\, Sex & Taipei City\, is now out with Red Hen Press. She maintains a blog at www.yuhanchao.com about nursing school.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-8-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190801T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190724T213335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190724T213335Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, August 1st\, 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-15/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190724T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190514T205205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T203346Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:MoSt is pleased to announce another installment of our Poetry Book Club! Join us for a conversation about Theodore Roethke’s final collection The Far Field. Four copies of The Far Field are available at the downtown Modesto library to check out\, but if you have Roethke’s Collected Poems\, almost the entire collection is included there as well. \nThe book club will be held Wednesday\, July 24 at 6:30 in the conference room at the downtown library and will be facilitated by Salvatore Salerno.  See you there!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-book-club-4/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190720T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190514T204705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T203807Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Workshops 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our second Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Stella Beratlis and Nancy Lewis will lead a workshop on Erasure/Blackout poetry. Participants will create their own new poems based on prompts and examples. See http://newspaperblackout.com/ or http://erasures.wavepoetry.com/ for examples. \n\nAll experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series. \n\nAll workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Friends of the Modesto Library.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/summer-poetry-workshops-2019-2/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190714T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190714T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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SUMMARY:Potluck and Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our annual meeting is coming right up and all members are invited. We’ll have the meeting at 3:00 and a potluck dinner at 4:00. Come here about next year’s plans and all the inner workings of MoSt\, and of course\, we’d love any member input as well. The get-together will be held at a member’s home in Modesto on Sunday\, July 14. You are welcome to come just for the meeting or just for the potluck or for both\, but we’d be so happy to have you join us.  Please email Gillian at info@mostpoetry.org if you’d like more information.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/potluck-and-annual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190709T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on July 9th 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. \nStay tuned for more info!
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-7-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190615T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190615T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190514T204603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T203103Z
UID:1165-1560603600-1560610800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Workshops 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our first Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019! \n\nLinda Scheller from the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center(MoSt) will lead a workshop on Archetypes and Dreams. Participants will read\, discuss\, and write poetry derived from universal ideas and images from dreams. \nAll experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series. \n\nAll workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Friends of the Modesto Library.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/summer-poetry-workshops-2019/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190609T202145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190609T202145Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on June 11th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Stella Beratlis and Gillian Wegener. Wegener has been running the Barkin’ Dog series for the past 10 years and is now handing the reins over to Beratlis\, who will carry on with new energy and all her grace and verve and humor. And there will be cake! \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nStella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink and the poet laureate of Modesto. Her work has been published in California Quarterly\, In Posse Review\, hardpan\, Song of the San Joaquin\, Penumbra\, and Quercus Review as well as the anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She is a librarian at Modesto Junior College. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two collections of poetry\, both from Sixteen Rivers Press\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (2008) and This Sweet Haphazard (2017). Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and is forthcoming from MockingHeart Review. Wegener is a co-founder of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center\, has served as poet laureate for the City of Modesto\, and started this reading series in June of 2009.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-6-2019/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190413T054403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190413T054403Z
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SUMMARY:Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the Awards Ceremony for this year’s Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest! First\, second and third place winners in each category will receive cash awards from the MoSt Poetry Center. Prizes are: First Place $25\, Second Place $15\, Third Place $10. In addition\, the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women will award a $60 Aileen Jaffa Outstanding Poem award in each of two combined categories\, Categories 1 and 2\, and Categories 3 and 4. The current president of the NLAPW Modesto chapter will present the awards\, and you’ll get to hear a reading featuring the winning poems.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/aileen-jaffa-poetry-contest-awards-ceremony-3/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, Gemperle Gallery\, 250 N. Broadway Ave.\, Turlock\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Contests,Poetry on Sunday Series,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190413T054214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T171418Z
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday @ Barkin' Dog
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on May 14th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. Our featured poets will be Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis. \nAn open mic will follow the featured reading\, so bring a poem or two to share. \nPoet and radio commentator Molly Fisk was chosen by the Academy of American Poets as one of the inaugural American Poet Laureate Fellows. She’s also received grants from the NEA and the CA Arts Council. Fisk is the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, among other collections\, and lives in Nevada City\, CA. \nIngrid Keriotis‘ first book of poetry\, It Started with the Wild Horses\, is now available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems are also included in the anthology\, More Than Soil\, More Than Sky: the Modesto Poets. In writing\, she believes in Richard Hugo’s advice: “You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.” Ingrid lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and teaches writing to community college students.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/second-tuesday-barkin-dog-9/
LOCATION:Barkin’ Dog Grill\, 940 11th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190505T160000
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CREATED:20190413T054023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190413T054023Z
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SUMMARY:City of Modesto Poets' Corner Reading
DESCRIPTION:The annual Poets’ Corner contest is open to all Stanislaus County residents. Poets will read their winning poems on Sunday\, May 5\, 2019\, at 1 p.m. at the McHenry Museum\, followed by light refreshments. \nWinning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf\, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/city-of-modesto-poets-corner-reading/
LOCATION:McHenry Museum\, 1402 14th St\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190321T181759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T181759Z
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SUMMARY:MoSt Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday\, May 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.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-board-meeting-14/
CATEGORIES:Board Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T180525
CREATED:20190206T223231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190413T053722Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Book Club
DESCRIPTION:MoSt is pleased to announce another installment of our Poetry Book Club! The meeting will be held on Wednesday\, April 24th from 6:30 to 7:30 at the downtown library. Our featured book is Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith–copies will be available from the Modesto Library or on Amazon\, and we will have a few copies on hand. \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/poetry-book-club-4-2019/
LOCATION:Stanislaus County Library\, 1500 I Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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