On Saturday, October 29 at 2:00 at the downtown Modesto library, there will be a poetry reading! Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and former Poet Laureate Gillian Wegener will be reading with Bay Area poets Rosa Lane and Nina Lindsay. Stay after the reading for a Q&A and book signing. All four poets have books …
Our usual Second Tuesday reading is being held a week later -- same time, same place -- with Modesto Poet Laureate Stella Beratlis and Alice Anderson. Come join us for a reading followed by our usual open mic!
Our Poetry on Sunday quarterly reading series at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock continues on December 4th at 2 pm--feel free to print and distribute the flyer, available as a PDF right here. Featured readers: Stella Beratlis is the author of Alkali Sink (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015) and co-editor of the collection More Than Soil, …
EDITED: The deadline has been extended to January 1st! Today is the deadline for our first annual Lee Nicholson-George Rogers Award! Read more about the contest here.
Join us at the Barkin' Dog for the January edition of the Second Tuesday Reading Series. Our featured readers will wow and inspire us with their work, and our Most Excellent Open Mic will knock your socks off. Susan Cohen is the author of two poetry chapbooks and two full-length collections, including A Different Wakeful …
Official Press Release: MODESTO WRITERS JOIN NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO “RE-INAUGURATE” DEMOCRACY “Writers Resist” Event Planned Locally for January 15th, 2017 MODESTO, California, December 31, 2016 — A recent Facebook post unleashed a nationwide movement of writers organizing and promoting independent “Writers Resist” events to reclaim democracy planned for January 15, 2017. The flagship Writers Resist …
