BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center - ECPv6.15.13//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240203T140000
DTSTAMP:20260425T034856
CREATED:20231212T190405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T194836Z
UID:3084-1706954400-1706968800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:12th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival with Maya Khosla
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Festival\nSaturday\, February 3\, 2024\n“Writing the Way Through Wild Spaces”\nWorkshop leader: Maya Khosla\, Wildlife Biologist\, Poet\, Filmmaker\nCarnegie Arts Center       250 N. Broadway        Turlock\, CA\n10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.\nDoors open at 9:30 a.m. — continental breakfast included\n$40 RSVP at https://poetryfestival12.eventbrite.com\n  \n\n \n\n\nMaya Khosla is a biologist and writer. As Sonoma County Poet Laureate (2018-2020)\, she brought Sonoma’s communities together to heal through gatherings\, field walks\, and shared writing after the recent wildfires. Her books include “All the Fires of Wind and Light” (Sixteen Rivers Press; 2020 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award)\, “Keel Bone” (Bear Star Press; Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize). She is the winner of the 2023 Fund for Wild Nature Grassroots Activist Award and co-winner of the Environmentalist of the Year Award from 2020 Sonoma County Conservation Council (SCCC). Her work has been featured in For the Wild\, her writing was part of the award-winning documentary films including “Village of Dust\, City of Water\,” about the water crises in rural India. \n\n\n\nScan to purchase your ticket\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/12th-annual-most-poetry-festival-with-maya-khosla/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Other Events,Workshops
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Facebook-event-cover_Festival2023-1920-x-1080-px-e1703101663501.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T034856
CREATED:20240119T211642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T212106Z
UID:3156-1707850800-1707854400@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:MoSt Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Angela Drew & Linda Scheller
DESCRIPTION:Please join us Tuesday\, February 13th\, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. PST for a poetry reading featuring Angela Drew and Linda Scheller at Prospect Theater Project’s Artist Lab\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto CA. Hosted by Gillian Wegener\, this free event will include an open mic. \nAngela Mason-Drew is a mother\, dancer\, poet\, spoken word performer and self-proclaimed linguistic artist who has loved the rhythm and sounds of words for as long as she can remember. Born in Berkeley\, CA\, she began writing at age 8 and has always understood that words have the power to soothe\, stir\, or solidify connection. Her lifelong love affair with storytelling began in the sandbox of her childhood playground and she has played with the magic of words ever since. Angela is a graduate of Holy Names University in Oakland\, CA\, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is a proud Bay Area native and shares stories from her current home in the Central Valley. To learn more about Angela and her word artistry\, visit her on Instagram @she_spits_fire Facebook @Angela Drew (Angela Mason) and online at www.elderberrywine.org. \n \nLinda Scheller is the author of two books of poetry\, Fierce Light (FutureCycle Press) and Wind & Children (Main Street Rag Publishing Company). Her poetry\, plays\, and book reviews are published in numerous journals and anthologies including Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Poem\, Sugar House Review\, Slipstream\, and Colorado Review. Recent honors include Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations\, and her manuscript Laurels was a finalist for the 2023 Aryamati Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award. Ms. Scheller is a retired educator who volunteers as a programmer for KCBP Community Radio. For more information\, please go to her website\, lindascheller.com. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-second-tuesday-poetry-reading-featuring-angela-drew-linda-scheller/
LOCATION:Prospect Theater Project\, 1214 K Street\, Modesto\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Second Tuesday
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MoSt-Gala-2017-0001.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240217T110000
DTSTAMP:20260425T034856
CREATED:20240125T213356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T213356Z
UID:3175-1708164000-1708167600@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club - Information Desk by Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Book Club meets at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday\, February 17\, 2024 at BakeShop\, 11th Street in downtown Modesto to discuss Information Desk by Robyn Schiff. You can pick up a copy of the book at the Stanislaus County Library’s Modesto Branch. Here’s what the publisher\, Penguin Random House\, has to say: \n\n\n\nABOUT INFORMATION DESK\nNew York Times Book Review Edtitors’ Choice \n“Among the year’s highlights . . . groundbreaking\, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries\, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.” —Washington Post \n“An effluvial rush of memory\, desire\, data\, and metaphor . . . It’s bracing to encounter a mind so voracious\, so unapologetic in its intelligence.” —New York Review of Books \nA book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, from a writer whose work offers “something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world” (Dan Chiasson\, The New Yorker) \nRobyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk\, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history\, material\, and memory\, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum’s encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. \nNovelistic in its sweep\, frantically informative\, and deeply intimate in its private recollections\, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns\, including illusion\, deception\, self-deception\, complicity\, lecherous coworkers\, the composition of pigment\, the scattering of seeds\, ideas\, and capital\, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way\, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses—parasitic wasps—in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-information-desk-by-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:BakeShop\, 940 Eleventh Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/9780143136804.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240224T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T034856
CREATED:20240109T012835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T013006Z
UID:3136-1708783200-1708786800@www.mostpoetry.org
SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry On Saturday featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt & Mary Mackey
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 North Broadway in Turlock\, for a MoSt Poetry reading featuring Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Mary Mackey on Saturday\, February 24\, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. PST.  An open mic will follow the featured poets\, and light refreshments will be available. This reading\, hosted by Gary Thomas\, is free and open to the public. \nSusan Kelly-DeWitt is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the author of Gatherer’s Alphabet (Gunpowder Press\, CA Poets Prize\, 2022)\, Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag\, 2020)\, Spider Season (Cold River Press\, 2016)\, The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press\, 2008) and a number of previous small press collections. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, and in print and online journals at home and abroad. She is currently a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, the Northern California Book Reviewers Association and a contributing editor for Poetry Flash. A new book\, Frangible Operas: Selected Uncollected is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. For more information\, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com. \n  \nMary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers\, tramping through tropical jungles\, being swarmed by army ants\, and reading. She is the author of eight poetry collections\, including Sugar Zone\, winner of a PEN Award\, and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams\, winner of a the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. Her poetry has been praised by Wendell Berry\, Jane Hirshfield\, D. Nurkse\, Al Young\, Rafael Jesús González\, and Maxine Hong Kingston for its beauty\, precision\, originality\, and extraordinary range. She is also the author of 14 novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion.  Recent honors and awards include: \n2023 City of Angels Women’s Film Festival Award Official Selection for Best Feature Screenplay for “The Stand In.” The screenplay is an adaptation of Mary Mackey’s novel of the same title\, published under her pen name “Kate Clemens.” \nNorthern California Book Reviews Award Finalist for “Creativity: Where Poems Begin\, Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in 2023. \nWinner of City of Angels Film Festival for Best Short Screenplay for “Time Piece “ 2022. \n“Lady Danger\,” Nominated for Best Feature-Length Screenplay\, City of Angels Womens Film Festival\, 2022. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-on-saturday-featuring-susan-kelly-dewitt-mary-mackey/
LOCATION:Carnegie Arts Center\, 250 N. Broadway\, Turlock\, CA\, 95380\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry on Saturday,Readings
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mostpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Floral-Facebook-Event-Cover-1-e1704762772699.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR