Stella Beratlis
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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.
Nov 21
MoSt’s Poetry Everywhere Initiative: Getting Poetry Books to Schoolkids
In the nearly ten-year history of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center it has taken on few projects more ambitious than to donate sets of brand new poetry books to every public school in the county. But that’s exactly what MoSt adopted as a goal about five years ago and has been working to achieve ever since. …
Dec 23
Barkin’ Dog Grill: We’ll Miss You
MoSt Poetry Center wishes to thank Hanibal Yadegar and the Barkin’ Dog Grill for the many years of support of poetry in our community, They gave a home to our monthly readings and supported our poetry center and our poets in a huge variety of ways. Thank you to The Barkin’ Dog Grill! You will be so missed!
Dec 07
New Year’s Poetry Challenge 13
Time to sign up for NYPC 13, running from December 15, 2021 through January 13, 2022. Get a daily prompt via email every day. Free! Please sign up at https://forms.gle/BJf4fAzpoTG4JzPm9 or see form on our homepage.