Pathways Potluck and Poetry Reading

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

MoSt Poetry Board Meeting

Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday, July 27 at 2:30 at Tom Portwood’s home. This meeting will serve as our ‘annual’ meeting and will include reports from the president, secretary, and treasurer as well as a budget for the next year, and a membership report from our veep. We will also be discussing the bylaws (newly updated!) and next steps toward being a non profit, and various projects like the festival and the chapbook contest. In addition, we need to discuss not only bringing in new members but appreciating the members we have.

Please contact info@mostpoetry.org for details.

Apr 01

Modesto Bee Features Poem by MoStPoetry’s Gillian Wegener

Our very own Gillian Wegener had a poem, “When the rains finally come,” featured in the Modesto Bee last month. Go take a look! Congrats, Gillian!

MoStPoetry Board Meeting

Our next meeting is set for Sunday, April 6 at 2:30 at the home of Ed and Roberta Bearden.

Second Tuesday Poetry Reading

The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th Street, Modesto!

Join us on April 8 at 6:00p.m. for a great reading, and come and enjoy a great dinner too.

BEVERLY BURCH’s previous poetry collection, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004) won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Two non-fiction books on psychoanalytic theory and sexual orientation have also been published: On Intimate Terms (U. of Ill. Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). An Atlanta native, she’s lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area and has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, CA.

MURRAY SILVERSTEIN’s first collection, Any Old Wolf (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2006) received an Independent Publisher medal for poetry. Silverstein produced the Sixteen Rivers compact disc, Naming the Rivers (2008), and served as executive editor for the press’s anthology, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (2010). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Brooklyn Review, Hunger Mountain, The Louisville Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, and Rattle. A practicing architect and coauthor of four books about architecture, including A Pattern Language (Oxford University Press) and Patterns of Home (The Taunton Press), Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.

Our Most Excellent Open Mic will follow the featured readers, so bring a poem or two to share!

For more information, email info@mostpoetry.org