Apr 19

Announcing the 2015 Poets’ Corner Contest Winners

This year’s Poets’ Corner contest has come to an end, and the results are in! Check below for the names of all the winning poets, and make sure to come celebrate with them (and us)! The winning poems will be read at the Poets’ Corner Contest Reception to be held on Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. on the Main Floor at the McHenry Museum, 1402 I Street.

Winning poems will be printed in a booklet that will be placed in the Poets’ Bookshelf, which contains published works by local writers and will be kept at the McHenry Museum. Each winner will receive a copy of the booklet.

Winners in the Adult – General Submissions Category
Ed Bearden for The Call
Pat Egenberger for Three Haiku
Lynn Hansen for Choir of Canaries
Nancy Haskett for Crayola Memories
Louise Kantro for Elegy for Felix
Angelique Limatoc Arnold for A Good Sunny Day
Nancee Kinkaid Maya for San Luis National Wildlife Refuge
Tom Portwood for Christmas Season, 1958
Gary Thomas for and to the young ravens when they cry

Winners in the Adult – Special Submissions Category
Roberta Bearden for Still Gray Morning
Virginia Dall for Signals
Pat Egenberger for Earth
Tom Myers for Transformation
Stephen E. Peters for Bristlecone
Linda Marie Prather for Tree Trimming
Gordon Preston for Last Summer Eggs
Mary Rodgers for Ranchito Rio Tuolumne
Naomi Ward for Kentucky Memory
Gillian Wegener for Rain After Drought

Winners in the Children – General Submission Category
Katherine Andrews for A Mother’s Lie
Hayden Dinsdale for Animals Being Happy
Arshaun Faraji for Snow
Ann Marie Hendricks for My Dog Princess
Elsa Jesberg for Apple Tree
Tabitha Jory for Orca, oh Orca
Jose Guadalupe Martinez for Three Haiku
Ella Oliver for Family
Annabelle Rousseau for Untitled
Austin Salazar for The Lonesome Cowboy
Gabriella Sanchez for Unable to Justify
Katelin Urgo for Her Mind

Winners in the Children – Special Submission Category
Carson Carranza for Fire on Ice
Vinay Channaveerappa for A Dancer Called ‘Fire’
Avery Cloward for Down There
Lizzie Doll for Fire
Maeg Domingo for Brother Son and Sister Moon
Emma Garber for The Rain of Beauty
Nandini Naidu for Rain! Rain!
Raymond Noriega for Fire
Agustin Valdes for Elemental Beauty

Apr 09

Tickets Now Available for Our 2nd Annual Benefit!

Our first year was so fun that we thought we should do it again. Come join us on Sunday, May 3rd, from 2-5 pm at the Barkin’ Dog Grill. Tickets are only $20 and are available online at Eventbrite as well as directly from MoSt board members.

Enjoy food, drinks, and music while mingling with poetry-minded friends. Bid on silent auction items, including art from local artists, original crafts from local artisans, and poetry book baskets. Maybe even write a few lines of poetry yourself–we’ll have writing prompts and ideas on hand.

Your attendance helps us raise money to support the creation, enjoyment, and dissemination of POETRY in the Stanislaus County region. Hope to see you there!

Facebook members can also join the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1420506498260268/

Check out photos from last year’s event here.

2nd Annual MoSt Poetry Center Benefit

Tix available at EventBrite: http://mopogala.eventbrite.com/

Our first year was so fun that we thought we should do it again.

Enjoy food, drinks, and music while mingling with poetry-minded friends. Bid on silent auction items, including art from local artists, original crafts from local artisans, and poetry book baskets.

Maybe even write a few lines of poetry yourself–we’ll have writing prompts and ideas on hand.

Your attendance helps us raise money to support the creation, enjoyment, and dissemination of POETRY in the Stanislaus County region. Hope to see you there!

You can also join our Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/1420506498260268/

Check out photos from last year’s event here.

Slam on Rye

On April 16, the legendary Slam-on Rye will return at 7:30 at the Prospect Theater in downtown Modesto. Tickets are sold out, but if you’ve already got yours, you’re guaranteed a good time. The slam will feature Stockton/LA poet “Saint” and Oakland poet “Queen D.”

Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts

The Hildegard Festival is sponsored by the College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and will convene on the CSU Stanislaus campus March 26-29, 2015. The purpose of the Hildegard Festival is to celebrate the creative work of women in the arts and to provide opportunities for participating artists to engage one another and gain familiarity with one another’s creative work.

On March 27, the Hildegard Festival at CSU Stanislaus will host a chamber music concert with poetry interludes, starting at 4:30 in the Snider Music Hall. Several local poets will be participating, so don’t miss out.