Poetry on Sunday @ Carnegie Arts Center

The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) is pleased to announce the third in a series of quarterly poetry readings, The Poetry on Sunday Series, hosted by Carnegie Arts Center (Gemperle Gallery), 250 N. Broadway, Turlock, California on Sunday, August 24, 2014 at 2 pm. The featured readers in August for The Poetry on Sunday Series reading will be Sheila D. Landre, Justin Souza, Linda Gordon Sawyer, and Modesto’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, Ed Bearden. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public. An Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring your words to share.

For more information, please see the attached press release.

Aug 06

Poetry venue in “Homeless in Modesto” web site

Richard Anderson has offered Modesto poets another venue for poems, about our local homeless.

He has been working with the Modesto Peace/Life center on a video documentary on Modesto’s homeless (www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/).

There is a “Poems and Stories” button that leads to www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/#!poems-and-stories/c1yha  which already has nancee maya’s “7th Street Bridge”  and Cleo Griffith’s “Entrenched, He Survives” and “Dust of the Ghost”
Judith Chibante Neal’s “Beggar on Blackstone,” which was in a recent Song of the San Joaquin, is also available.
The plan of the video project is described at www.modestocahomelessdocumentary.org/#!documentary-plan/c1vgm
Take a look at the web site and the project, and if you would like to contribute a poem, please contact Richard at andersonr@mjc.edu.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog Grill

This month at the Barkin’ Dog we will feature Los Angeles poet Lynne Thompson and Stanislaus County poet Linda Scheller.

Attached is a PDF flyer with more information, so please print, post, forward, and otherwise share.
And don’t forget, the featured readers will be followed by our Most Excellent Open Mic, so be sure to bring a poem or two to share.

Standiford Place Poetry Reading

MoSt Poetry members will once again be joining together to read beloved poems for the residents of Standiford Place!

Aug 06

Pathways Potluck and Poetry Reading Oct. 5th

On October 5th MoSt will host a poetry reading and potluck for Pathways, an organization helping youth transition out of foster care. For more information about the merits of Pathways, and to receive the guidelines for submitting poems for a chapbook the sales of which will benefit Pathways, please contact info@mostpoetry.org. We hope you will consider joining us for this worthwhile event. It promises to be a memorable afternoon of poetry, food, and friends.
Yours truly,
Tom Myers
Gordon Preston
Mark Nicoll-Johnson

for the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center