MoSt Poets will do Poetry-on-the-Spot for the Third Thursday Art Walk in downtown Modesto at Preservation Coffee. Poetry on the Spot means: you pick 5 words, we write you a poem!
This very special reading will feature the winning youth poets from the Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest, administered by MoSt and the Modesto Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. Please join us! Download the PDF flyer here. Read more about the competition on our Contests page.
Join Modesto Poet Laureate Gillian Wegener, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt), and the Modesto Library for the first in a series of poetry workshops. Come read and write poetry focused on place -- the places we love and the places that haunt us. Play with image, metaphor, and rhythm and bring place alive for those who read …
Join the Modesto Culture Commission and Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center in welcoming the new City of Modesto Poet Laureate and honoring the outgoing Poet Laureate, our own Gillian Wegener. There will be a poetry reading and light refreshments will be provided.
Join us for our monthly reading series and open mic at the Barkin' Dog Grill in Modesto! This month's featured readers will include MoSt secretary Tom Portwood and Susan Kelly DeWitt. Tom Portwood is a founding member of the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center, and serves on its board as its Secretary. His poems have appeared in Modesto …
Save the date for a workshop on Persona Poetry at the Modesto Library with MoSt Board member Linda Scheller. This free workshop is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information contact the Modesto Library at (209) 558-7814. Sponsored by Friends of the Modesto Library, Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.
