The NAACP Youth Video Contest, co-sponsored by MoSt, has come to a close, and you can see the results on local TV 26! The presentation will air on the following dates and times:
Dec 26th: 11am & 8pm
Dec 28th: 1pm & 8pm
Dec 30th: 11am & 8pm
MoSt Board Meeting
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
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