Stella Beratlis

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MoSt’s Poetry Everywhere Initiative: Getting Poetry Books to Schoolkids

Salida Elementary School receives donation of poetry books from Sal Salerno of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center & Modesto's poet laureate

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. …

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Barkin’ Dog Grill: We’ll Miss You

thank you to Barkin' Dog Grill for its support of poetry in Modesto

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!

New Year’s Poetry Challenge 13

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.

The Letter: Writing Resistance in Epistolary Poems

image for Sep 19 poetry workshop

Please check our Events for details on this free poetry workshop scheduled for September 19, 2020 at 1:00 pm.

Meter Maids to read at Second Tuesday Reading Sep 8

image: meter maids reading

Please check our Events page for the September 8 Second Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring the METER MAIDS.