Our usual Second Tuesday reading is being held a week later — same time, same place — with Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and Alice Anderson. Come join us for a reading followed by our usual open mic!
MoSt Board Meeting
Our next Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26th, at 6:30 pm at Tom Portwood’s home. Please contact info@mostpoetry.org for more information, if you would like to attend. All members are welcome.
Oct 25
Save the Date(s): New Year’s Poetry Challenge
Calling all poets!
The 9th annual New Year’s Poetry Challenge will begin on December 10 and run through January 8. Everyone who is interested will receive a daily poetry prompt and we’ll write ourselves into 2017!
This is a low-pressure challenge — no one checks up on you, no one critiques your work. If you’d like to send in one of your poems toward the end of the Challenge, MoSt will publish it in our annual NYPC chapbook. In the meantime, help the prompter! If you have a great idea for a prompt, please send it to info@mostpoetry.org. If we use it in the Challenge, you will get all kinds of credit, good karma, and poetry love coming your way.
Poetry Reading at the Library
On Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 at the downtown Modesto library, there will be a poetry reading! Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and former Poet Laureate Gillian Wegener will be reading with Bay Area poets Rosa Lane and Nina Lindsay. Stay after the reading for a Q&A and book signing.
All four poets have books published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Join us for a great afternoon!
Sep 27
New Video: U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Great news–even if you missed the wonderful reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera at our own Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock earlier this month, you can still watch the video! Thank you to our volunteer videographer Richard Anderson.
Don’t forget–we also have oodles of other poetry readings on our Videos page!
Juan Felipe Herrera reads at Turlock, 9/18/16 from Richard Anderson Two Roads on Vimeo.