Tuesday, November 12, 2024, | doors open at 6:15 pm event runs from 6:30- 8:00 pm | Location: Mill Valley Library | 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
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MPC is grateful to have Tiffany Midge and Kim Stafford, two beautiful writers from the Pacific Northwest, read for us this month. Come on out and enjoy a poetic feast and some excellent refreshments!
Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the
Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, First American
Art Magazine, World Literature Today, McSweeney’s, and more. Her most recent poetry
collections include Horns, winner of a Wilder Prize Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize, and The
Woman Who Married a Bear, winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Indigenous Poetry Prize
and a Western Heritage Award.
Kim Stafford, founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College,
teaches and travels to raise the human spirit. He is the author of a dozen books of poetry and
prose, including The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s
Craft and 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared. His most recent book is
the poetry collection As the Sky Begins to Change (Red Hen, 2024). He has taught writing in
dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, Mexico, and Bhutan. In 2018
he was named Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate by Governor Kate Brown for a two-year term.