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May 21 2019

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7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Memorial Tribute to Linda Gregg

This tribute celebrates Linda Gregg’s life and work, with poems and stories from poets and friends. Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Jane Hirshfield and others will gather to read and speak about Linda. Refreshments will be served.

If you plan to attend and/or read, please RSVP to events@marinpoetrycenter.org so we can plan appropriately. Doors open at 6:30, event starts at 7. For directions and a map of Dominican University campus, click HERE. The Mansion is on the far right, just below Edgehill Village.

Linda was raised in Marin County, went to Francis Drake high school and earned her BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Her books include In the Middle Distance (2006); All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008), a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; The Poets & Writers’ Jackson Prize; Things and Flesh (1999), finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Chosen by the Lion (1995); Sacraments of Desire (1992); Alma (1985); and Too Bright to See (1981).

Access the video recording of the memorial (two parts) here:
Part 1   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgw2f-rPfUU&t=168s
Part 2  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOAp2LJ2Pc&t=3s

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