O'Hanlon Center for the Arts | 616 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley CA 94941 | Wednesday, September 30th | 2-4 pm

https://www.ohanloncenter.org/events/month/2026-09/

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Join us for the 2026 Distinguished Visiting Poet Reading Series (Fall Edition) featuring  Leslie Ullman, MPC Youth Poet Laureate Elizabeth Foster, and Marin's former Poet Laureate Albert Flynn DeSilver.

Leslie will be reading from her new collection, Unruly Tree: Poems, and will be in conversation with Elizabeth about her writing craft, followed by a generative session on energies made possible by braiding and juxtaposition.

By the end of the session, we will have the book signing and sales.

Leslie's bio:

Leslie Ullman is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Unruly Tree (University of New Mexico Press, 2024), a collection whose poems take their titles from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. She also has published a hybrid collection of craft essays, writing exercises, and poems titled Library of Small Happiness and a recent chapbook titled Self Portrait as Vanishing Act, a playful collection of self-portraits as non-human phenomena. Professor Emerita at U.T.-El Paso, where she taught for 27 years. She also taught for over 40 years in the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships, and a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for poetry. Her website is www.leslieullman.com

Albert's bio:

Albert Flynn DeSilver served as Marin County, California’s very first Poet Laureate from 2008-2010. He is the author of several books of poems, including Letters to Early Street, and his work has appeared in more than 100 literary journals worldwide. Albert is also the author of the memoir Beamish Boy, which was named a “Best Book of 2012” by Kirkus Reviews. His latest nonfiction book, Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life—based on his popular writing workshops by the same name—was published by Sounds True in 2017. Albert coaches writers and teaches writing online at www.albertflynndesilver.com Latest book SOME VOID: New & Selected Poems 1996-2026