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MoSt Poetry’s Great February Events.

Eleventh Annual Poetry Festival with Amanda Moore
February 4, 9:00 AM
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Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt) will host the 11 Annual Poetry Festival on
February 4, 2023 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1528 Oakdale Road, Modesto, Califor-
nia. The event will run from 9 am to 1:30 pm.

Facilitated by Amanda Moore, an awarded-winning, nationally recognized poet from
the Bay Area, attendees will be led through a program titled At the Starting Line, A
Workshop on Poetic Opening, which promises to be very helpful for both new and expe-
rienced poets.

Tickets ($40 each) for the event are available through Eventbrite. Attendance is limited
to the first 44 people who purchase tickets. Coffee, tea, and table snacks will be provid-
ed, and attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch. As in the past, the festival will
include an author’s table and camaraderie with poets and poetry aficionados from
throughout Northern California. Eventbrite link for tickets:
https://most2023fest.eventbrite.com

Poetry On Saturday Reading
February 11 2:00 PM
Join host Gary Thomas for the latest edition of MoSt’s Poetry On Saturday readings in person on February 11 at 2:00 p.m. at the Car-
negie Arts Center in Turlock. Our featured readers are Andrena Zawinski and Susie Meserve from the Bay Area, followed by our Open Mic
time following the featured poets. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.

Andrena Zawinski is a veteran teacher of writing Jack Hirschman called “an activist poet
whose works open up paths of struggle, celebration, revolutionary victories.” About her
fourth full-length poetry collection, Born Under the Influence, Mary Mackey lauds the
poems as “tough, smart, beautifully crafted” and Michael Simms says, “we are lucky to
have this poet among us.” Her work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, CQ, Plainsongs,
Progressive Magazine, Rattle, and more, and is widely anthologized, including Crossing
Class, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tribute, Raising Lilly Ledbetter, Women Write Re-
sistance, and others with awards from Akron Art Museum, International Human Rights
Creators of Justice, Ventura County Poetry Project, Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize, Kenneth
Patchen Poetry Prize, and PEN Oakland Award. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh,
PA, but has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. To find out more about An-
drena’s latest book, visit:
https://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/zawinski.html

More Information, visit www.mostpoetry.org

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