Save the Date! The Modesto Poetry Festival will be held on Saturday, February 8. It will feature poet Patrice Vecchione doing a workshop, poet Gary Thomas doing another workshop, a lovely lunch, winning poems, and lots of poetic camaraderie. An excellent flier with all kinds of good info is attached for your convenience: MoSt Poetry Festival flier. We’d love to see you there!
Registration deadline: January 20th.
From the State Theatre’s website: Join us for the 10-year anniversary of the most prestigious and highly anticipated spoken-word event in the Central Valley, featuring previous ILL LIST champions and a few fresh faces – all of whom are renowned spoken-word artists, national and international slam poetry award recipients, most having appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Verses & Flow, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and elsewhere in the media.
Who will become the ultimate slam champion? Through three rounds of original poetry, poets will match metaphors and battle rhyme for rhyme in their quest for $1,500 in cash prizes and the right to be crowned “The ILL LIST Grand Slam Champion.” Randomly selected judges from the audience will award points to poets based on the strength of their poems and the quality of their performance. Cheering, yelling, booing, hissing, whistling, and good-natured heckling are welcome and expected during this world-class literary boxing match. (This is a free-speech event.)
Doors at 7; show at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $20, $27.50, $35, and $50
Our next meeting is scheduled for 2:30 on December 1 at Standiford Place. Agenda to include bylaws revisions, the advisory board, the MoSt Poetry Festival, support for the Modesto Art Museum, and the Stanislaus Poem.
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We will be adding new features to the website soon, including an events calendar and more blog posts, so stay tuned!
