MoSt is pleased to announce another installment of our Poetry Book Club! The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 23rd from 6:30 to 7:30 at the downtown library. Our featured book is Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai--copies are available from the Modesto Library or on Amazon, and we will have a few copies on …
We are thrilled to announce the details of our 7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, coming up on February 2nd, 2019! 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 back featured poet Indigo Moor, Sacramento's Poet Laureate, as …
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 6th. Last year, our county winner took third …
Our next Board meeting will be held on February 7th at 6:30 pm. If you are interested in attending, please contact us at info@mostpoetry.org.
Join us for the Second Tuesday Barkin’ Dog reading on February 12th at 6:00 at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in downtown Modesto. We’ll be featuring the poetry of beloved local poets Virginia Dall, George Rogers, and Lee Nicholson, read by members of the MoSt poetry community. An open mic will follow the featured reading, so …
Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for the first 2019 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. Derek D. Brown is an author, poet, and venture expressionist based in Los Angeles. His premiere …
