MoSt’s 10th Anniversary Fundraiser w/ CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick & Stan Cty Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado

Join us on the afternoon of Saturday, September 23, 2023 for an afternoon of wine, hors d’oeuvres, and readings by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado.

Your ticket supports poetry in Stanislaus County, including monthly reading series in Modesto and Turlock; sets of poetry books for area schools; Poetry Out Loud; poetry readings at senior communities; free poetry workshops and poetry book discussions at the Modesto Library; the Youth Poet Laureate program; poetry on the spot at events across the county; annual workshops by noted poets from across California, the Modesto Poetry Festival every February, and much more!

TICKET SALES END FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th AT MIDNIGHT.  $50 purchase through https://poetrygala2023.brownpapertickets.com/. 

Please email info@mostpoetry.org to request sliding scale price. 

Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate Reading and Reception

Please join us to celebrate our finalists for the Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate contest 2023-2024. Meet our finalists, Janelle Yulo of Modesto and Zoe Byron of Oakdale, and our Youth Poet Laureate Faith Delgado. With readings and refreshments.

At The Loft, 3rd floor of the Carnegie Arts Center,

Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate program is a partnership between Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, Stanislaus County Library, Stanislaus County Office of Education, MJC’s School of Language Arts and Education, and the Stanislaus Library Foundation.

Second Tuesday Poetry Reading with Molly Fisk & Ingrid Keriotis

Please join us for a  poetry reading featuring Molly Fisk and Ingrid Keriotis with an open mic to follow.

RSVP with the link below.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Aug 8, 2023 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-yorzMjG9Nu0FHzh0Uy7TVpsE81x9PiAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Poetry on Saturday Reading featuring Connie Post and Francesca Bell

MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday Reading
August 12, 2023  2:00 p.m. PST
Carnegie Arts Center (250 North Broadway Avenue, Turlock, California)
Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On
Saturday readings in person on August 12 at 2:00 p.m. at the Carnegie
Arts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Livermore poet laureate
emeritus Connie Post and Marin County poet laureate Francesca Bell
(both with new books out!) followed by our Open Mic time after the
featured poets. This event is free and open to the public, and light
refreshments will be provided.
Connie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. Her
work has appeared in Calyx, Comstock Review, One, Cold Mountain
Review, Slipstream, Spillway, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review,
Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. She has two full-length
books from Glass Lyre Press, entitled Floodwater and Prime Meridian.
Her most recent book, Between Twilight, is from New York Quarterly
books, and she has a recent chapbook, Broken Metronome, about her
brother’s journey with Parkinson’s.
Francesca Bell is the author of Bright Stain, a finalist for the Washington
State Book Award and the Julie Suk Award, and What Small Sound,, and is
the translator of Max Sessner’s Whoever Drowned Here, all from Red Hen
Press. Her work appears in B O D Y, ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books,
New England Review, North American Review, Mid-American Review, and
Rattle. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx, the translation editor
of Los Angeles Review, and the poet laureate of Marin County. She lives
with her family in Novato, California.
 

July Book Club: FELON by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Please join at the Modesto Library to discuss Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Copies of the book are available at the check-out desk of the Modesto Library, courtesy of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Facilitated by Tina Marie Curiel-Vega.