Save the Date! The Modesto Poetry Festival will be held on Saturday, February 8. It will feature poet Patrice Vecchione doing a workshop, poet Gary Thomas doing another workshop, a lovely lunch, winning poems, and lots of poetic camaraderie. An excellent flier with all kinds of good info is attached for your convenience: MoSt Poetry …
Come join us at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock for our quarterly reading series, featuring Nancy Haskett, Salvatore Salerno, Flora Carter, and Sam Pierstorff. Free and open to the public, with an open mic following the reading. Download the February 23 Carnegie Poster and feel free to share.
Our next meeting is set for Sunday, April 6 at 2:30 at the home of Ed and Roberta Bearden.
The Second Tuesday Poetry Series is happening at the Barkin’ Dog Grill, 940 11th Street, Modesto! Join us on April 8 at 6:00p.m. for a great reading, and come and enjoy a great dinner too. BEVERLY BURCH’s previous poetry collection, Sweet to Burn (Gival Press, 2004) won the Gival Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary …
The 19th Annual Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest is underway. This contest is for students living in or attending school in Stanislaus County. The deadline is April 12. Forms are available at county schools, McHenry Museum, the Mistlin Gallery, the downtown Modesto library, or the Salida library. For more information contact Cleo at cleor36@yahoo.com.
The weekend of April 25-26, the annual convention for the California Federation of Chaparral Poets will be held right here in Modesto. The registration deadline is April 12. If you'd like more info, please contact Cleo Griffith at cleor36@yahoo.com
