Join us for a celebration of youth LGBTQIA+ poetry.

Hosted by Marin County Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador Ezra Buell, this event aims to build community and empower young queer people and allies to express themselves through their art. Youth poets of all experience levels are encouraged to read! 

If you would like to read your work, please sign up here. All LGBTQIA+ community members and allies are welcome to attend and listen; no sign-up required.

Snacks and warm drinks will be provided.

Paul Hoover’s most recent book of poetry is O, and Green (MadHat Press, 2021), about which critic Marjorie Perloff commented, “His terse, densely packed lines, often arranged in triads, carry on, more than any other lyric I’ve seen, the Williams tradition: “the more you / watch the cat / the more abstract / it gets.” Editor of two editions of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and the annual magazine, New American Writing, he lives in Mill Valley and teaches at San Francisco State University.

Colleen Morton Busch's debut collection, SMOLDER, won Ex Ophidia Press's Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Contest and was published in July. Colleen Busch is the author of Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire-a work of nonfiction selected by Publisher’s Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Barnes & Noble as a best book of the year. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Willow Springs, Sycamore Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Belleview Literary Review. She is a lay-ordained Zen practitioner and currently serves as president of the Berkeley Zen Center.