Jan 30
The Parks, Recreation and Neighborhoods Department and the City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Committee are pleased to offer an Annual Poets’ Corner Contest. The contest is open to all Stanislaus County residents and offers two categories for poetry entries: Any kind of poetry on any subject, rhymed or unrhymed. Free verse and form welcome. Group …
Aug 11
August and September are great months for poetry in Stanislaus County–especially this week! Don’t forget to come to the Barkin’ Dog on Tuesday the 13th for our monthly Second Tuesday reading, featuring Pos Moa and Yu-Han Chao (more details here). Also, we’ve got two events coming up this weekend–our penultimate Summer Poetry Workshop for this …
Jan 17
From our Special Guest Poet Indigo Moor: Poetry is not naive. It is a concise language that artistically expresses anemotionally constructed moment. Getting into and out of the poem should be akin to stepping into a flame and exiting a nearly frozen stream… or vice versa. Between these precise bookends, we must exercise a balancing …
Jan 13
Don’t forget to come to the next installment of our FREE Poetry Book Club, coming up on Wednesday, January 23rd at the Modesto Library from 6:30 to 7:30pm. We’ll be looking at and discussing Adamantine by Shin Yu Pai, an award-winning writer, photographer, and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. Read more about her on …
Nov 14
We have officially posted information on our 7th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, taking place on February 2, 2019, with featured Guest Poet Indigo Moor, Sacramento’s Poet Laureate. If you’ve never attended one of our festivals before, you can expect a day of poetry readings, workshops, luncheons, and you can even enter our annual poetry contest …
