Our next MoSt Poetry Board meeting will be held on Thursday, December 3rd, at 6:30 pm via Zoom. If you are interested in attending, please email info@mostpoetry.org for more information.
Nov 08
NAACP Youth Video Contest Looking for Entries!
MoSt is proud to help co-sponsor this contest!
Do you use artistic expression to help cope with COVID-19 and its impact on your community? Can you record a 3-5 minute video showcasing your creative activities?
NAACP is hosting a Virtual Showcase for you to show off your talent! We are looking for individuals between the ages 14-25 to participate. Every participant will be given a T-Shirt for participation in addition to being placed into a drawing to win some prizes. Your video will be posted on many social media platforms & live TV! If you are 17 and under, please submit a Release Form with your parent signature, along with your video for complete submission. If you haven’t already, please check out our sample video of what we are looking for. In order to participate, you MUST be a resident of Stanislaus County.
The contest deadline is November 21st.
Deadline: NAACP Youth Video Contest
MoSt is proud to help co-sponsor this contest!
Do you use artistic expression to help cope with COVID-19 and its impact on your community? Can you record a 3-5 minute video showcasing your creative activities?
NAACP is hosting a Virtual Showcase for you to show off your talent! We are looking for individuals between the ages 14-25 to participate. Every participant will be given a T-Shirt for participation in addition to being placed into a drawing to win some prizes. Your video will be posted on many social media platforms & live TV! If you are 17 and under, please submit a Release Form with your parent signature, along with your video for complete submission. If you haven’t already, please check out our sample video of what we are looking for. In order to participate, you MUST be a resident of Stanislaus County.
The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th.
Poetry on Sunday Series
Please join us for the December edition of MoSt’s quarterly Poetry On Sunday Readings on Sunday, December 13th at 2:00 P. M. While we look forward to a time we can all gather again at the Carnegie Arts Center, this time we’ll be on ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84608931424
Join us, too, for the Open Mic time following the featured readers! And please feel free to download and print our PDF flyer.
Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books) and the new chapbook The Umbrian Sonnets (PANK). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Kundiman fellowship, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. He teaches at Brooklyn Poets and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019), Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013), Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books, 2007), The Opening Question (Fence Books, 2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race, Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award and a finalist for the 2020 Four Quartets Prize, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College.
Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog – on Zoom!
Join us for the NOVEMBER installment of the Second Tuesday Poetry series on November 10th at 7:00 pm, hosted by Stella Beratlis. We are pleased to feature poets Aideed Medina of Fresno and Jon Grammatico of Modesto.
Aideed Medina, poet and spoken word artist, creates and performs poetry in English, or Spanish, as dictated by the inspiration of each individual piece. She enjoys mentoring high school students under the direction of the Fresno Poet Laureate, Bryan Medina, with the Poetry Out Loud Program, and for youth slam competitions throughout the California central valley. She was honored to be the 2017 Representative for the Loud Mouth Poetry Slam of Visalia, CA at the Women of the World Poetry Slam DTX, and recently received the 2017 Fresno Arts Council Horizon Award for her contributions to the city’s artistic and cultural scene in the category of individual artist. She is currently working on her first two manuscripts, “A California Dime” and “Mis Papelitos.” Her work has appeared in Revista Literaria Austral, Fresno State’s Club Austral literary magazine and Flies, Cockroaches and Poets, the Chicano Writers and Artists Association journal. Online she has work on La Bloga, Poets Responding, Art of the Commune: La comuna, and as part of a collection of original art songs composed for The Opera Remix, Fresno Grand Opera.
Jon Grammatico has been writing poems since his high school days but began reading at local open mics last year. Jon received his Bachelor of Arts in Gender Studies and his Master of Social Work from Stanislaus State. He currently works as a social worker with Stanislaus County in the Public Health Department, functioning as the HIV/AIDS program coordinator and is the recently elected President of MoPride, the leading LGBTQ+ organization in Stanislaus county. When he is not writing, Jon spends his time tending to his 30+ house plants, caring for his two cats and dog, and listening to music. He currently lives in Turlock, CA with his partner.
Zoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99171810028
Open mic following the featured readers; sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/berattle/secondtuesday