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Dec 16
13th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival – Feb. 1, 2025
Featuring workshop facilitator and guest poet Michael Meyerhofer: Pulling Up the Floorboards: Two Radical Approaches to Revision. RSVP $40 + ticketing fee. Price includes continental breakfast and a light lunch.. Saturday, February 1, 2025 · 10am – 2pm PST. Doors at 9:45am. RSVP Eventbrite.
Nov 29
NYPC16 Is Underway! Sign Up Now
Heads up & pens out: Our New Year’s Poetry Challenge has begun, and although you may have missed a few days, you can jump right in by completing the opt-in form on our homepage. Halfway through the Challenge, you will receive prompts 1-15 in one email if you’d like to catch up on writing to …
Nov 21
Reading/Open Mic & Book Launch Tues Nov 26
Attend the Reading and Book Launch for Gary Thomas’s O YES WE BREATHE at Prospect Theater Project on Tuesday Nov. 26 at 7 pm.
May 10
Oakdale High’s Zoe Byron Selected as 2024-25 Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate
We’re excited to share that Zoe Byron of Oakdale has been selected as our next youth laureate. Zoe Byron, a sophomore at Oakdale High School, was selected as the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate for 2024-2025. She will serve a one-year term, participate in several engagements throughout the year, and receive a $500 honorarium. Cameron …
Aug 28
Poetry Books for Hart-Ransom
As part of our Poetry Everywhere initiative, we’ve been delivering libraries of poetry books to elementary schools in Stanislaus County. On August 26, 2023, MoSt board member & Modesto’s current poet laureate Salvatore Salerno dropped off a trove of tasty poetry collections to Hart-Ransom Charter School. Pictured are Salerno and an employee of the school.