Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic following the reading! This month’s featured poets include Mai Der Vang and members of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle.
Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog
Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in Modesto! This month’s featured readers will include MoSt secretary Tom Portwood and Susan Kelly DeWitt.
Tom Portwood is a founding member of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, and serves on its board as its Secretary. His poems have appeared in Modesto Poets Corner, Stanislaus Connections, hardpan, Many More, Describing the Depths, and Song of the San Joaquin, as well as More than Soil, More than Sky: the Modesto Poets anthology. By the Pond is his first chapbook.
Susan Kelly-DeWitt is the author of Spider Season (Cold River Press, 2016) and nine previous poetry collections, including The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press, 2008). A former Wallace Stegner fellow, her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals at home and abroad. She has also been featured at Wordstock, and on Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. For more information, please visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com.
Poet Laureate Reception
Join the Modesto Culture Commission and Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center in welcoming the new City of Modesto Poet Laureate and honoring the outgoing Poet Laureate, our own Gillian Wegener. There will be a poetry reading and light refreshments will be provided.
Jun 21
Time to Renew your MoSt Membership!
Don’t forget to renew your MoSt membership or to become a member for the first time! Members receive a few handy benefits like complimentary copies of MoSt publications, a discount to our annual festival, and a presale option to a big event coming up in the fall. Most of all, your membership fee helps MoSt in its ongoing mission to promote poetry throughout Stanislaus County and Stanislaus County through poetry. You can find a membership sheet to download and mail in right here! Thank you for your support.
May 14
2016-2018 Poet Laureate Application Available
Calling all Modesto poets! The City of Modesto is accepting applications and nominations for the Poet Laureate. This is a non-salaried honorary position for the purpose of presenting original poems at various official functions and occasions. For more information and the application form, visit the City of Modesto website. May 27th is the application deadline.