North Bay

An immersive performance installation integrates Fain’s choreography with three poems by Jane Hirshfield, embedded in an original score by Dan Wool.

Come roam the various buildings of our campus, engage with artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, see performances, hear readings, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall.

Sinan Antoon (Baghdad, 1967) is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator.

Each event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following.

Admission to each two-hour event is free. So are the words. Come get a taste of something simple, unique, indie.

Event curators: Rebecca Foust and Melissa Stein. Music and sound effects mixed by Franklin Walther of Mill Valley.

Readings.

We are so honored to bring the newly appointed Poet Laureate of California, Dana Gioia, to celebrate the publication of his new collection.

Sit back, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories, raw and without notes.

Launch of her chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.

Multiple participating artists.

Following our guest readers, we'll have time for schmoozing, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit).

Shop Talk: Jedediah Caesar & Kate Costello With Dodie Bellamy.

Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology, rootedness, longing, apocalypse, and the complex cartographies of desire.

Free and open to the public!

A reading and celebration.

Reading and celebration of fifteen Marin Poetry Center members with new books!