Join this virtual event on Zoom as Marin Poetry Center members read their own work as published in this year’s anthology IDENTITY AND THE SELF. Register in advance here. Click here to learn more about the Anthology and purchase a copy. Note from the editor: What makes any of us who we are? What masks […]

The annual event to launch the Marin Poetry Center is always popular. It starts the Marin Poetry Center fall season, Members read and hear selections from this unique anthology. This is an evening of reconnecting with other members with a glass of wine, some cake, and the launch of our unique anthology.

A reception, reading, and presentation of 55 high school poets by Marin County Poet Laureate Terry Lucas. Marin Poetry Center extends its deepest gratitude to anthology editor Jayne McPherson, to the others who helped create the anthology and event, and also to The Marin School for hosting it. Copies of the anthology “Sand & Salt […]

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of  Resistance and Resilience, was conceived in response to the 2016 presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states, high schools and nursing homes, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante to […]

Margaret Gibson is the poet laureate of Connecticut and has been short-listed for the National Book Award. Her lyrical and meditative poems celebrate the “sometimes painful, sometimes joyful experience of unfolding Consciousness.” Her books include Signs, Long Walks in the Afternoon (which was a Lamont Poetry Selection), The Vigil, Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems, One Body, Second Nature, Broken Cup, and the […]

This special evening will kick off with a video introduction and reading from a few special guests, followed by 20 “live” readings from the collection. Our host for the evening is Yeva Johnson.