Thursday, April 2nd, 2026, |  6:30- 8:00 pm | Location: Mill Valley Public Library (Creekside Room) | 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Join us for our monthly Poetry Reading Series featuring Joan Baranow, Catharine Clark-Sayles & Wendy Williams

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Joan Baranow is the author of seven poetry books, including Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, winner of the Brick Road Press contest. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, Nostos, JAMA, and elsewhere. A Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow and member of the Community of Writers, she founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Dominican University of CA. With her husband, David Watts, she produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine. Her feature-length documentary, The Time We Have, presents an intimate portrait of a teenager facing terminal illness. She is currently producing poetry and healing videos for her YouTube channel, youtube.com/@poetryandhealing.

Catharine Clark-Sayles has written three books and one chapbook. One Breath and Lifeboat, published by Tebot Back Press, and her recent book, The Telling, The Listening, published by Saint Julian Press, in 2023. Her chapbook, Brats, was published by Finishing Line Press. Catharine is a retired physician after 40 years in practice. She has an MFA in poetry and narrative medicine from Dominican University.

Wendy Patrice Williams is the author of the poetry collection In Chaparral: Life on the Georgetown Divide, California (Cold River Press) and two chapbooks, Some New Forgetting and Bayley House Bard.  Her poems appear in numerous publications, including Sacramento Voices, Tule Review, The Common Ground Review, Basin Bards: 44 Klamath Falls Poets, and Canary: a Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Her memoir, Autobiography of a Sea Creature: Healing the Trauma of Infant Surgery, was recently published by the University of California Health Humanities Press. She served on the Sacramento Poetry Center Board for five years, hosting monthly poetry readings. Besides hiking the trails of southern Oregon, you can find her at https://www.wendywilliamsauthor.org. She also appears in the film Cutdown: Infant Surgery without Anesthesia, https://cutdownfilm.com.

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