Please join us in welcoming three fabulous Bay Area women for an evening of poems, convivial noshing, and cheerful chatter! We will celebrate Sally Ashton, Susan Cohen, Amy Glynn, and SPRING! In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center.
Sally Ashton is a writer, teacher, and editor of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Author of five books including the just-released Listening to Mars, 2024, she specializes in brief forms across genres. One of her poems is headed to the Moon, November 2024. sallyashton.com
Susan Cohen's third collection, Democracy of Fire, was praised by Ellen Bass as a "wise and wonderful" vision of "our interconnectedness." Her poetry honors include the Red Wheelbarrow Prize judged by Mark Doty, the Terrain Annual Poetry Prize judged by Arthur Sze, and a special mention in Pushcart Prize XLIII.
Amy Glynn is a poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. She has received the Troubadour Prize, the Able Muse Book Award, Poetry Northwest's Carolyn Kizer Award, and two James Merrill House fellowships, among other honors. A Marin County native, she served as inaugural poet laureate for the cities of Lafayette and Orinda, CA, and lives in the East Bay.