4th Annual Poetry Festival

You are Invited to the 4th Annual Modesto Poetry Festival featuring Workshops, Luncheon and Poetry Contest. With Special Guest Poets, Authors & Workshop Leaders Troy Jollimore and Heather Altfeld Troy Jollimore is the author of three books of poems: Tom Thomson in Purgatory (2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as At Lake Scugog (2011) and Syllabus of Errors (2015). As a philosopher, Troy authored On Loyalty and Love’s Vision. His poems have been published in the New Yorker, Poetry, McSweeney’s, The Believer and elsewhere. Troy has been the recipient of fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Heather Altfeld won the Inaugural Poets-at-Work Book Prize with her first book of poetry, The Disappearing Theatre (2015). Her poems have appeared in Superstition Review, TLR, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, Cimarron Review, Pleiades and Poetry Northwest, among others. Heather’s “Blueprint for the Infinite” and “Two Pockets” won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, she recently completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and is finishing a new collection of poetry and a children’s book. Contact : St. Paul Episcopal Church Phone : (209) 522-3267 Email : Web Site :