Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in Modesto! This month’s reading features MoSt board member Linda Scheller celebrating her debut poetry collection, Fierce Light, out now from Future Cycle Press. Our second reader is TBA.

Benefit Gala Tickets Now Available Online

2017GalaPoster-FinalYou can now buy tickets online for our annual gala, to be held on Sunday, April 30th at the Barkin’ Dog Grill. Join us for food and drink, music, a silent auction, and poetry. Funds raised at this benefit will help MoSt Poetry Center to continue to bring poetry to schools, senior centers, and community organizations. Just this year, we have held our annual poetry festival in February, created a chapbook for young adult poets, and more.

Join us for music, poetry, food, and wine. Silent auction items to include gift baskets, arts and crafts, gift certificates, and more!

Tickets are $20 each; includes food and beverage. Visit mostbenefit.eventbrite.com to purchase tickets, or you can buy them at the door.

Second Tuesday @ Barkin’ Dog

Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin’ Dog Grill in Modesto! This month’s reading features our own Gillian Wegener reading from her new book This Sweet Haphazard, as well as her fellow Sixteen Rivers poet Erin Rodoni, author of Body, In Good Light.

Save the Date for our Annual Gala!

Please join us for Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s 5th Annual Benefit, Sunday, April 30, 2017!

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 will be available sooner than soon online and from MoSt members. 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.

If you would like to help with the planning of this event, please contact us at info@mostpoetry.org. We’d love to have you be a part of making this event a success!

Annual Benefit Gala

Please join us for Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center’s 5th Annual Benefit, April 30, 2017!

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 $20, and they are available online at mostbenefit.eventbrite.com 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.