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Feb 06
Tonight 2/6–Poetry Out Loud County Competition
Join us tonight, February 6th, at MJC’s Little Theater from 7:00 to 9:00 for the county-level Poetry Out Loud competition! Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest for students, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Last year, our county winner took third place at the state level, …
Jan 17
Poetry Festival Workshop Theme Announced
From our Special Guest Poet Indigo Moor: Poetry is not naive. It is a concise language that artistically expresses anemotionally constructed moment. Getting into and out of the poem should be akin to stepping into a flame and exiting a nearly frozen stream… or vice versa. Between these precise bookends, we must exercise a balancing …
Jan 13
MoSt Poetry Book Club January 23rd
Don’t forget to come to the next installment of our FREE Poetry Book Club, coming up on Wednesday, January 23rd at the Modesto Library from 6:30 to 7:30pm. We’ll be looking at and discussing Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai, an award-winning writer, photographer, and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. Read more about her on …
Nov 14
Registration Now Open for Modesto Poetry Festival 2019
We have officially posted information on our 7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, taking place on February 2, 2019, with featured Guest Poet Indigo Moor, Sacramento’s Poet Laureate. If you’ve never attended one of our festivals before, you can expect a day of poetry readings, workshops, luncheons, and you can even enter our annual poetry contest …
Nov 14
Poetry Books for Schools in Fall 2018
This fall, MoSt purchased and donated sets of brand-new kids’ poetry books to five more elementary schools: Chatom, Hughson, Cunningham, Salida, and Westport. All the books were delivered in person by MoSt board members. Our donation to Westport Elementary in Ceres was given in memory of Jan Hightman, a dear friend to many in the …