Tuesday, January 14, 2025, | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Location: Mill Valley Library (Creekside Room)  |  375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941

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Join Marin County Poet Laureate, Francesca Bell, for a generative workshop. Each month, participants will discuss poems and poetic devices and then spend time writing together to various imaginative prompts. Please register so we know how many people to expect.

Facilitator: Francesca Bell is a poet and translator. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Julie Suk Award, and What Small Sound (Red Hen Press, 2023). She translated Max Sessner’s collection, Whoever Drowned Here (Red Hen Press, 2023), from its original German. Her work appears widely in magazines such as ELLE, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, North American Review, Mid-American Review, and Rattle. Bell grew up in Washington and Idaho and did not complete middle school, high school, or college. She is the former poetry editor of River Styx, the translation editor of Los Angeles Review, and the Marin County Poet Laureate. She lives with her family in Novato.

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