Richard Modiano

Richard Modiano served on the board of directors of the Valley Contemporary Poets from 1995 to 2001. In 2001 he was programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006, and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of poetry events and with Henry Morro, Suzanne Lummis and Liz Camfiord co-founded and named Beyond Baroque Books' sub-imprint The Pacific Coast Poetry Series. In 2019 he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society. The Huffington Post named him as one of 200 people doing the most to promote poetry in the United States.