Marin Poetry Center

Poetry as a Way of Looking at Life

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 6:30PM - 8:00PM | MILL VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY REGISTER HERE Perhaps you’ve always wondered what people see in poetry. Maybe you’re already a practicing poet in need of camaraderie and outside inspiration. Either way, this free, generative, welcoming poetry workshop is for you. Each session, we will read and examine some poems. We will discuss what the poems are […]

Building Bridges Book Club

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20th | 6:30-7:30 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (CONFERENCE ROOM) SIGN UP HERE Read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and like to take a closer look at form, structure, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask […]

Building Bridges Book Club

TUESDAY, JANUARY 16th | 6:30-7:30 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (CONFERENCE ROOM) SIGN UP HERE Read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and like to take a closer look at form, structure, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask […]

The Marin Poetry Center’s Member Appreciation Workshop: Docupoetry & Experimental Poetics with Dr. Taylor Byas

Thursday, November 30th, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm on Zoom This Zoom class considers how we might combine historical research with our own personal poetic expressions and experimentations. During this 1 1/2 hour course, we will discuss what docupoetry entails, look at some examples, and discuss their conventions and how they incorporate outside texts, then […]

Poetry Round Table Workshop

FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH | 6:30-8:00 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY Virtual workshop on Zoom. Click the link below to register. SIGN UP HERE In this virtual Round Table Workshop, attendees share an original poem-in-progress and receive positive feedback and craft suggestions from fellow participants. Calvin Ahlgren, longtime Marin poet and workshop facilitator, will continue […]

Building Bridges Book Club

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20th | 6:30-7:30 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (CONFERENCE ROOM) SIGN UP HERE Read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and like to take a closer look at form, structure, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask […]

Building Bridges Book Club

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16th | 6:30-7:30 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (CONFERENCE ROOM) SIGN UP HERE Building Bridges Book Club is an opportunity to read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and would like to take a closer look at form, structure, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive, and participants […]

Where the Door Opens: Writing Poetry of Place

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1st | 3:00-5:00 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (SMART GARDEN) SIGN UP HERE: https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/10977846 Host: Emilie Lygren This series of three generative poetry workshops will focus on writing about place. To spark ideas for poems, we will explore the local environment, make use of scientific observation skills, call on our memories, and consider historical […]

Poetry as a Way of Looking at Life

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th | 6:30-8:00 PM MILL VALLEY LIBRARY (CREEKSIDE ROOM) SIGN UP HERE: https://millvalleylibrary.libcal.com/event/11074356 Host: Francesca Bell Perhaps you’ve always wondered what people see in poetry. Maybe you’re already a practicing poet in need of some camaraderie and outside inspiration. Either way, this free, generative, welcoming poetry workshop is for you. In each session, […]

Life, Death & Poetry: A Workshop

Marin Poetry Center’s Youth Ambassador Program, in collaboration with the Problem Library, presents… Life, Death & Poetry: A Workshop Sunday, August 20, 1-2pm 1288 15th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94122 In “Life, Death, & Poetry,” we invite the public to participate in a four-part poetry and art workshop revolving around our interpretations of the stages […]

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