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PoetryView – Haiku Capitol of the World

PoetryView – Haiku Capitol of the World

By Sam Pierstorff Can Modesto become the Haiku Capital of the World? Every other month at LoFi Diner, Burn & Rave has been hosting an epic beatnik Poetry Night and Haiku Battle, popularizing the format and pitting haiku against haiku in a fun and inspirational battle until a winner emerges! These short form poems, which […]

By December 29, 2023 0 Comments Read More →
MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER ANNOUNCES STANISLAUS COUNTY’S INAUGURAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE

MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER ANNOUNCES STANISLAUS COUNTY’S INAUGURAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE

MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER ANNOUNCES STANISLAUS COUNTY’S INAUGURAL YOUTH POET LAUREATE (Modesto, CA – May 15, 2023)  Faith A. Delgado of Turlock, a junior at Pitman High School, was selected as the Inaugural Stanislaus County Youth Poet Laureate. She will serve a one-year term, participate in several engagements throughout the year, and receive a $500 honorarium. […]

By May 16, 2023 Read More →
Thoughts on Stella Beratlis

Thoughts on Stella Beratlis

Thoughts on Stella Beratlis By Sam Pierstorff If you are lucky enough to call Stella Beratlis a friend, you are truly lucky to have a fighter (metaphorically speaking) on your side. Stella knows the pen is mightier than the sword and she wields it well. Stella is an academic and an activist, a poet and […]

By March 5, 2021 Read More →
PoetryView – MoSt Poetry Challenge

PoetryView – MoSt Poetry Challenge

PoetryView December is the time to get creative with your words and phrases. Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will host the 2nd Tuesday Poetry Reading featuring Meg Withers and Odilia Galvan Rodriguez on December 8 at 7:00 pm online and a Zoom invitation can be found on their Facebook page after December 1. Be part of the […]

By December 3, 2020 0 Comments Read More →
PoetryView – Love in the Time of Coronavirus

PoetryView – Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Love-in-the-Time-of-Coronavirus.docx Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Sam Pierstorff, @njapoet Six feet feels like a hundred miles when handshakes are forbidden and high fives have been replaced by winks and head nods like we are all flirting inside a crowded bar, but the bar is our kitchen—the strangers are our neighbors walking past dusty […]

PoetryView – The Ill List

PoetryView – The Ill List

PoetryView Ill List Poetry Slam One of the most amazing nights of the year turns 15! Yes, the Ill List, where poets from all over the USA converge to go head to head in verbal poetry combat at the State Theatre produced by Sam Pierstorff and Ruhi Sheikh is an annual sold-out success and the […]

By December 1, 2019 0 Comments Read More →
All AgesView – Try Some Poetry

All AgesView – Try Some Poetry

AllAgesView By Sofia Johnson Happy August Modesto! I hope everyone is having a great summer and looking forward to the upcoming school year. Last month, I had the opportunity to watch a Poetry Slam “The Chill List” at the State Theater and it inspired me to write about the poetry scene right here in Modesto. […]

PoetryView – 26.2 Mile Run

PoetryView – 26.2 Mile Run

Dear 26.2-Mile Run by Sam Pierstorff, #NinjaPoet I have been drinking a lot lately, slugging shots of honey whiskey, watching you all night leaning over the bar, legs so long an airplane could land on your hamstrings. I want you more than you want me. We both know that. But still you flirt with your […]

By March 4, 2019 Read More →
MJC presents Sam Pierstorff in Positive People Speaker Series

MJC presents Sam Pierstorff in Positive People Speaker Series

MJC presents Sam Pierstorff in Positive People Speaker Series (Modesto, CA) – Sam Pierstorff, professor of English at MJC and former Poet Laureate for the City of Modesto, is the final spring semester presenter for MJC’s Positive People Speaker Series.  The free, public presentation is Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in the Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning […]

By February 22, 2019 Read More →
Never Letting Go

Never Letting Go

Never Letting Go  by Dave Storm Far beyond the smoke and the haze. In the midst of the fire and the flames. Go our prayers for the lives that they save. For the ones, with their lives, that they gave. For the love that is selfless of blame. Because saving lives, is no game. It’s […]

By November 21, 2018 Read More →
Where We’re At

Where We’re At

Where We’re At By Dave Storm   The hot summer days drift away in a craze, As the cool windy breeze, blows the leaves from the trees. Where the fowls of the air, sing abroad everywhere. To remind us that ‘fall’ is now near. For fall is a time, that we all can embrace. When […]

By October 1, 2018 Read More →
Graffiti-Con Review in Prose

Graffiti-Con Review in Prose

Graffiti-Con Review By Dave Storm Well hello loyal readers of “MView” It is I Dave Storm, staying IN-TUNE. IN-TUNE with our readers In tune with our town. In tune with tomorrow Everywhere, all around. Let’s start up our engines And stomp on the gas. And color our worlds, With Comic-Art flash. Steering our way, through aisles of […]

By July 20, 2018 Read More →
AllAgesView – Ready to “Rock”

AllAgesView – Ready to “Rock”

AllAgesView By Leia Johnson 2018 is going to rock. Between The Shire Community Space soon opening downtown and the Mother Lode Mineral Society’s Rock and Gem Show occurring in early March, there are a lot of exciting things coming up in our area! The Shire is an incredible venue that has supported local musicians, artist […]

By February 18, 2018 Read More →
Bad Seed An Album Come Alive

Bad Seed An Album Come Alive

“BAD SEED: An Album Come Alive” Music by Mattea Overstreet Written by Summer Krafft Directed by Traci Sprague A passion project for all involved, this ONE WEEKEND ONLY event started with Mattea’s debut EP, BAD SEED, released in June of 2017, which sparked a narrative for her long-time friend and collaborator, Summer Krafft. She wrote […]

By January 29, 2018 Read More →
Love in Dead Silence

Love in Dead Silence

Love in Dead Silence Special Guest Writer Shannon Carmack Mize Center Stage Conservatory is what community theatre is all about. It is located in the basement theater of the City Center downtown on J street. You’ve probably passed the building hundreds of times without ever even thinking about what was going on inside. You can […]

By April 17, 2017 Read More →