Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our second Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Stella Beratlis and Nancy Lewis will lead a workshop on Erasure/Blackout poetry. Participants will create their own new poems based on prompts and examples. See http://newspaperblackout.com/ or http://erasures.wavepoetry.com/ for examples. All experience levels are welcome. This event is part of …
Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our third Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Gillian Wegener will lead a workshop on Poetry of Place. Write new poems inspired by other poems of place and some questions that will help you dig deep and find new creativity in writing about places that are important to us. …
Join us at the Downtown Modesto Library for our FINAL Summer Poetry Workshop of 2019. Tom Portwood will lead a workshop on Writing Poems of Social Justice -- the Art of Empathy. All experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the MoSt Summer Poetry Workshop series. All workshops are FREE TO THE PUBLIC …
We are thrilled to announce the details of our 8th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival, coming up on February 1st, 2020! 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 Lee Herrick and Camille Norton as our guest poets …
Join us on June 6th for our first Summer Poetry Workshop of 2020 with MoSt Board member Linda Scheller. The topic is "Correspondence and Connections" and it will be a Zoom workshop from 1:00-2:30. Please contact us at info@mostpoetry.org to receive detailed Zoom information! All experience levels are welcome. This event is part of the …
We All Belong Here: Poems of Kindness and Connection How can we be kind, or make connections with each other, even when to be compassionate is inconvenient, uncomfortable, or even dangerous? Using poems from Healing the Divide (edited by James Crews) and others as prompts, and our own drafts as examples, this workshop will explore how shared poetry …
