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2025 Youth Poet Laureate Contest Open

Stanislaus Youth Poet Laureate Applications submission period January 1 - February 27

Our Youth Poet Laureate contest is open for 2025-2026! Go to the YPL Contest to read about the role, rules for applying, and more! Contest runs through March 3, 2025.

13th Annual MoSt Poetry Festival – Feb. 1, 2025

Featuring workshop facilitator and guest poet Michael Meyerhofer: Pulling Up the Floorboards: Two Radical Approaches to Revision. RSVP $40 + ticketing fee. Price includes continental breakfast and a light lunch.. Saturday, February 1, 2025 · 10am – 2pm PST. Doors at 9:45am. RSVP Eventbrite.

7th Annual MoSt Benefit

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Support poetry in Stanislaus County and buy a ticket to our annual fundraiser. Only $20; purchase online or at the door.

Join us at the Great Valley Bookfest!

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Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center is once again pleased to announce that we will have a table at the Great Valley Bookfest, and our own Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis will be hosting the Poets’ Corner featuring an exciting list of poets from our region. The Great Valley Bookfest takes place on October 12th from 10am to …

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Tonight 2/6–Poetry Out Loud County Competition

Join us tonight, February 6th, at MJC’s Little Theater from 7:00 to 9:00 for the county-level Poetry Out Loud competition! Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest for students, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Last year, our county winner took third place at the state level, …

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