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 …
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 …
Jul 12
MoSt is excited to announce that California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia, will be at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for a reading and conversation. This event is free and open to all, so please join us for a wonderful evening of poetry. For more information, please see the event page on our calendar!
Sep 27
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 …
Sep 27
Each year in February we organize and hold an all-day poetry festival featuring workshops, readings, and a featured poet. This year, we are proud to welcome featured poet Susan Wooldridge as our guest poet and workshop leader. Join us on Saturday, February 4th, 2017 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Modesto for a day of …
