Wednesday, April 2, 2025, |  6:30- 8:00 pm | Location: Mill Valley Public Libary (Creekside Room) | 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941

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Let's kick off National Poetry Month with the tender and ferocious poems of Sam Sax and Geffrey Davis! Plus, homemade strawberry shortcake with freshly whipped cream.

Sam Sax is a queer, Jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series, and ‘Bury It' winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Granta, and elsewhere. Sam's received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, Lambda Lit, MacDowell, and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University.

Geffrey Davis is the author of three collections of poetry: One Wild Word Away (2024), Night Angler (2019), and Revising the Storm ​(2014), winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published in ​the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. ​A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis teaches for the University of Arkansas’s MFA in Creative Writing & Translation and for The Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.

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