Category: Workshops

The Poem Heard in Plain Sight – Workshop with Guest Artist Tama L. Brisbane

1:00-3:00 p.m. PT Saturday, August 31, 2024 in the Modesto Library

The Letter: Writing Resistance in Epistolary Poems

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Please check our Events for details on this free poetry workshop scheduled for September 19, 2020 at 1:00 pm.

Poetry This Week!

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 …

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Poetry Festival Workshop Theme Announced

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 …

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Registration Now Open for Modesto Poetry Festival 2019

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 …

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