Marin Poetry Center

MPC Member Anthology 2026

Members only, please update your membership first! https://marinpoetrycenter.org/join-us/ The 2026 Anthology Theme is: REVOLUTION Submissions for the 2026 Anthology are open MARCH 21st - MAY 21st Be creative. Be thoughtful. The American Revolution? The Industrial Revolution? Or is it the AI revolution? Maybe it’s the revolution of the sun around the sun. Or a spinning top? - […]

Yearly Potluck & Poetry: A Community Holiday Read Around

Monday, December 8, 2025, |  6:00- 8:00 pm | Location: Falkirk Cultural Center | 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael Registration is required (click text to register) Join us for a cozy evening of poetry and delicious food at the Falkirk Cultural Center, a historic 1886 San Rafael (Marin County) mansion. This in-person event is the […]

Marin County Fair Poetry Reading

Marin County Fair High School Poetry Reading Featuring Youth Poet Laureates of Marin and Finalists  Hosted by Marin Poet Laureate, Francesca Bell, and Emceed by YPL Coordinator, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes Thursday, July 3 at 4 pm | Marin Center Showcase Theater | 20 Ave of the Flags, San Rafael (Attendees must enter through designated fair entrances) 

The Anthology 2025 Launch

You're Invited!The Anthology (2025) Celebration Click Text To Register  Registration opens September 15th  Join us for an evening of poetry, community, and celebration as we unveil The Anthology (2025). Monday, October 6, 2025 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM | Mill Valley Library – Creekside Room | 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941 Come celebrate the […]

Potluck & Poetry: A Community Holiday Read Around

Monday, December 9, 2024, |  6:00- 8:00 pm | Location: Falkirk Cultural Center | 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael Registration is required (click text to register) Join us for a cozy evening of poetry and delicious food at the Falkirk Cultural Center, a historic 1886 San Rafael (Marin County) mansion. This in-person event is the […]

Potluck & Poetry: A Community Holiday Read Around

Monday, December 11th  6:30pm | Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael Sign up here Join us for a cozy evening of poetry and delicious food at the Falkirk Cultural Center, a historic 1886 mansion in San Rafael (Marin County). This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to share a poem and indulge in a potluck feast with […]

Pandemic-Published Poets & Costume Celebration

MPC and The Marin Shakespeare Company present Pandemic-Published Poets & Costume Celebration THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26th | 7-9PM MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE - 514 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL Join us in celebrating just a few of many MPC members (and writers everywhere!) who published books and chapbooks during the pandemic […]

Beat Not Beat: Poetry Among the Redwoods

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th | 6:30-8:00 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY SIGN UP HERE:https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11249694 History continues to repeat itself in the rapidly shifting climate of 21st-century America.  How far have we come from McCarthyism, the KKK, public lynching, the struggle for equal rights, and women no longer having rights to their own bodies across much of the […]

2023 High School Anthology Launch

TUESDAY, MAY 23 | 6PM GARDEN ROOM | 1st FLOOR EDGEHILL MANSION Dominican University, 75 Magnolia Ave, San Rafael Marin Poetry Center & Dominican University of California MFA Program in Creative Writing Present:  A celebration and reading of student work selected by judge Joan Baranow, founder and teacher at the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative […]

An Evening With Poet Laureates

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 7PM CREEKSIDE ROOM | MILL VALLEY LIBRARY Registration required. Register here.  Join us as we celebrate and toast the newly appointed California Poet Laureate, Lee Herrick! He will be joined by current San Francisco Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and Marin County Poet Laureate Emerita, Becky Foust. Each will share poems and […]

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