Join us at McHenry Museum on Sunday, June 4 at 1 pm for a reading featuring the winners of the 2023 Poet's Corner Contest, sponsored by the City of Modesto. For contest information, please visit the City of Modesto Poet's Corner page. (Contest info will be updated soon.)
Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center as we present poets Lynn Hansen, Richard Robbins, and Thomas Mitchell in a free on-line poetry reading hosted by Gillian Wegener. ABOUT LYNN HANSEN Lynn M. Hansen is a retired Modesto Junior College professor of marine biology. A member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle, Orinda, CA; MoSt Poetry Center, Modesto; …
Please join us in the Modesto Library's Makerspace on Saturday, June 24, 2023 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for "Questions, Lies, & Repetition," a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Linda Scheller. Participants will read, discuss, and write poetry in this free, in-person workshop open to the public. All ages are welcome, and no prior poetry …
Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center presents Second Tuesday Poetry featuring Aideed Medina and Ramón García, hosted by Stella Beratlis Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Time: 7:00 pm PST on Zoom--RSVP required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYld-CrrzIiE9f-nC5FZF4UnTu3ZCbULvXC. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Open mic: 3 mins per poet, follows the featured readers. Open mic …
Please join us in the Modesto Library Auditorium for "Playing with our ABC's: Poetry Using the Alphabet as Structure," a poetry writing workshop facilitated by Gillian Wegener. This workshop will focus on using the alphabet as structure for new poems. We'll try our hand at abecedarians, observational alphabet poems, and dictionary poems. Walk-ins welcome.
Please join at the Modesto Library to discuss Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Copies of the book are available at the check-out desk of the Modesto Library, courtesy of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center. Facilitated by Tina Marie Curiel-Vega.
