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Mar 16
Are You Ready for National Poetry Month?
April is National Poetry Month, and there are so many ways to celebrate poetry in your home, community, and everywhere! New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast designed this year’s National Poetry Month poster, which you can request a free copy of from the Academy of American Poets website. Their website has a plethora of other Poetry …
Mar 06
Poets’ Corner Contest Deadline March 11
The Modesto Poets’ Corner contest deadline is coming up. Your poems must be in by March 11. Here’s a link that will take you to more info and to the entry form. (It’s at the bottom of the page.) http://www.modestogov.com/prnd/poet_corner.asp
Nov 26
Join Us This Saturday at Mod Shop!
This Saturday, November 29th, from 6 to 10 pm is Modesto’s own indie craft market, Mod Shop, held downtown each year. MoSt will have a table set up in the Community Corner at the Mistlin Gallery, 1015 J Street. We will have a raffle basket, books and broadsides for sale, and you can even witness …
Aug 06
Poetry venue in “Homeless in Modesto” web site
Richard Anderson has offered Modesto poets another venue for poems, about our local homeless. He has been working with the Modesto Peace/Life center on a video documentary on Modesto’s homeless (www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/). There is a “Poems and Stories” button that leads to www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/#!poems-and-stories/c1yha which already has nancee maya’s “7th Street Bridge” and Cleo Griffith’s “Entrenched, He Survives” and …
Aug 06
Pathways Potluck and Poetry Reading Oct. 5th
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 …