Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, January 7th, at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.
Poetry Book Club
Our MoSt Book Club is back on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 6:30, via Zoom meeting!
We’ll be discussing The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. There are copies available to borrow at the Modesto Public Library. If you’d like one, please email Vicki, our most wonderful librarian contact, at vsalinas@stanlibrary.org. The discussion will be led by MoSt Board member Linda Scheller.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89965113712
Dec 08
New Year’s Poetry Challenge Starts Soon!
This year’s NYPC will begin on December 15th. You’ll get your first prompt the night of the 14th! If you’d like to jump in and join this genial—and hopefully challenging—poetry maelstrom, email us at info@mostpoetry.org. You will receive a prompt a day for 30 days! You can choose to write to all the prompts, some of the prompts, or none of the prompts. It’s all for fun and to keep poetry swirling in the winter. Toward the end of the 30 days, we’ll put out a call for any poem you’d like to share in an NYPC chapbook.
Once again, Gary Thomas will be sending out poetry prompts and managing all matters NYPC-related.If you’d like to participate, you need to opt in, even if you’ve done this in the past. That way no one who doesn’t want these prompts gets them. Also, feel free to pass this opportunity on to whomever you think might be interested! The more the merrier!
Poetry Workshop: Finding Inspiration from Surprising Sources
Finding Inspiration from Surprising Sources:
A Workshop Event with Maw Shein Win
And!! Two afternoon workshops :
The News from Poetry, with Gary Thomas
Poetry from Phrases, with Linda Scheller
When: Saturday, February 6, 2020 10:00 am-2:00pm
Where: Zoom Event (please register below for details)
Registration: $15 – Click here to register via Eventbrite!
Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito, California (2016 – 2018), and her new full-length poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House on Omnidawn. She often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers. Visit her website at mawsheinwin.com
Click below to download a PDF flyer:
Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – On Zoom!
The MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER and your host Stella Beratlis are pleased to welcome Odilia Galván Rodríguez and Meg Withers for Second Tuesday Poetry on December 8, 2020. Join the reading via Zoom at 7 pm: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91826874769
Odilia Galván Rodríguez is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, and social justice activist, the author of six volumes of poetry. Her latest is The Color of Light, FlowerSong Books, 2019. She is a long-time community organizer and volunteer and has been the editor for Matrix Women’s News Magazine, Community Murals Magazine and Tricontinental Magazine in Havana, Cuba. She currently edits two journals: Cloud Women’s Quarterly and Anacua Literary Arts.
Galván Rodríguez co-founded the Facebook page “Poets Responding,” and co-authored the groundbreaking, award winning anthology, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, University of Arizona Press. Her poetry and writings have appeared in numerous anthologies, and literary journals. She is a practitioner of Indigenous Spiritual and Healing Traditions and strives to live a simple life based on the indigenous worldview of her ancestors.
Meg Withers has been writing to save her sanity since she was about 9. She has been published in literary journals and other creative projects. She has been anthologized, and has three published books: Must Be Present to Win (Ghost Road 2005), A Communion of Saints (TinFish 2008), and Shadowed: Unheard Voices (Press at Fresno State 2014).
Her fourth book, Particular Odyssey: In Search, is forthcoming from Prickly Pear Press, and is likely to be published in 2021, barring the unforeseen circumstances of life these days. The basis for Meg’s work is concern with the attempt to silence voices.
Open mic follows the featured readers. Please sign up in advance at https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday.