This series features literary partners who are sheltering in place together. Couples will chat, read favorites from their own and each others’ work, and tell us what this period has been like for them. Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book […]
Due to technical difficulties at the JCC, this recording starts about in the middle of the event. Mill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield‘s most recent, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf, 2020). Among her many honors are the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the […]
Poster Art by Emma Krause. Youth activist Harita Kalvai invites you to join a youth-led climate change poetry event on behalf of The Marin Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and The School of Environmental Leadership. This inspiring Zoom event will feature live spoken word performances by local youth poets, as well as presentations on a variety of climate change topics. This event is co-hosted […]
The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers. The evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop. Pulitzer Prize winners […]
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have the opportunity to appear together. Yona Harvey has published two collection of poetry: Hemming the Water, for which she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and You Don’t Have to Go […]
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and writers. Rachel Richardson is the author of two books of poetry, Copperhead (2011) and Hundred-Year Wave (2016), both selections in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment […]
This reading series, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who work together, live together, or a combination of both—to chat, read favorites from their own and each others’ work, and tell us what collaboration offers their creative practice. Aimee […]
This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, pairing local Bay Area poets with visiting poets and writers. Rick Barot‘s fourth book, The Galleons (Milkweed Editions) was included on the NY Public Library’s 2020 Top Ten Poetry Books and longlisted for the National Book Award. He has […]
This year’s traveling show readings will take place online and feature an incredible line-up of MPC’s new and longtime members, including a guest reading by MPC’s Inaugural Youth Poet Ambassador, Harita Kalvai on Sunday, June 20. Episode 1 features MPC members Peggy Shimmelman, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Marshell Lane, Mary Jean Pramik, Jodi Hottel, and Susan […]
