Apr 13

MoSt Brings Poetry to Schools!

MoSt Board member Sal Salerno delivers books to Las Palmas Elementary School (April 2018).

Did you know that your donations to the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center help us increase the amount of poetry in elementary school students’ lives? One of our new efforts to promote poetry in Stanislaus County is Poetry Books for Schools, in which we donate brand-new sets of poetry books to school libraries around the county. Our plan, over time, is to gift poetry books to every one of our schools.

In the past year, we have donated stacks of new poetry books to:

Don Pedro Elementary (Ceres)
Empire Elementary (Empire)
Keyes Elementary (Keyes)
Bret Harte Elementary (Modesto City Schools)
Barrington Elementary (Newman)
Cloverland Elementary (Oakdale)
Las Palmas Elementary (Patterson)
California Avenue Elementary (Riverbank)
Chrysler Elementary (Stanislaus Union)
Richard Moon Elementary (Waterford)
Gratton Elementary (Gratton), &
the Juvenile Hall Library.

If you’d like to donate to MoSt–and every little bit helps–please send a check to the address in the upper left sidebar or click the button to donate via PayPal!

5th Annual Benefit Gala

Please join us for Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s 5th Annual Benefit, April 22, 2018!

Our annual benefit will be held from 2-5 p.m. at the Barkin’ Dog Grill. Join us for an afternoon of music, food and drink, poetry fun and games, a silent auction, and supporting the arts in our area.

Tickets are just $10 this year, and they are available online at mostgala2018.eventbrite.co.uk or at the door! All proceeds will benefit the work of MoSt as we continue to promote poetry throughout Stanislaus County with poetry contests, the Modesto Poetry Festival, publications, poetry readings throughout the region, Poetry-on-the-Spot, and many other activities. See our Annual Gala page for photos of the fun we’ve had in previous years.

Mar 07

City of Modesto Poets’ Corner Contest

The City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Contest is accepting submissions until this Friday, March 9, so get your poems in today! Winning entries will be published in a chapbook and poets invited to a public reading on May 6, 2018.

Please use official Poets’ Corner guidelines and entry form (PDF) to submit your work.

Summer Poetry Workshops 2018: Write a Poem; Read a Poem

Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our fourth and final Summer Poetry Workshop of 2018: Write a Poem; Read a Poem with Gary Thomas and Gillian Wegener.

All workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Stanislaus County Library.

Summer Poetry Workshops 2018: Children’s Poetry Workshop

Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our third Summer Poetry Workshop of 2018: a poetry workshop just for kids, with Linda Scheller and friends.

All workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC with materials and inspiration provided. Sponsored by Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and the Stanislaus County Library.