Marin Poetry Center Poets published in the Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Volume Eleven -- 2008 will be reading from their works.
Contributors include:

Charles Harper Webb 's latest book of poems, Amplified Dog, was published in 2006 by Red Hen Press. Previous books include Hot Popsicles and Liver (U of Wisconsin), Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies (BOA), and Reading the Water (Northeastern U). Webb has received the Morse Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollak Prize, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. A former rock musician, and a licensed psychotherapist, Webb directs Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Jack Hirschman is a former poet-laureate of San Francisco (2006-2008) and currently the poet-in-residence with the Friends of the San Francisco public Library. He has a BA from City College of New York, and an MA and Ph. D from Indiana University. In the 50s and 60s, Hirschman taught at Dartmouth College and UCLA, from which he he was fired for encouraging his students to resist the draft. Hirschman is also a painter and collagist, and has translated over 50 books from German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Albanian, Haitian and Greek. He is an assistant editor at the left-wing literary journal Left Curve and is a correspondent for The People’s Tribune. Among his many volumes of poetry are A Correspondence of Americans (Indiana U. Press, 1960), Black Alephs (Trigram Press, 1969), Lyripol (City Lights, 1976), The Bottom Line (Curbstone, 1988), and Endless Threshold (Curbstone, 1992). His most recent collection of poems is The Arcanes, published in Salerno, Italy by Multimedia Edizioni. City Lights Books has published his Front Lines (1993) and this year his Poet Laureate book, All That's Left.

Come celebrate the holidays in poetry style!
Bring a a poem for the read-around (25 lines max!) .
And a dish to share:      A – H: Dessert      I – P: Salad       Q – Z: Main Dish

Jasper Bernes is the author of Starsdown (in girum imus, 2007). He is a graduate student in English at UC Berkeley and lives in Albany, CA with Anna Shapiro and their son, Noah.

Peter Campion is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, and editor of the journal Literary Imagination. He's the author of two books of poems, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009) both from the University of Chicago Press. His poems and prose have appeared recently in ArtNews, the Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New Republic, Sculpture, Slate, and The Yale Review. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, he's the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.

Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press. She has also edited Emily Dickinson’s poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, where she is Olivia C. Filippi Professor of Poetry. She is also involved in anti-war activism with CodePink, a grassroots social justice group founded by women.

Troy Jollimore won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry for his first collection, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Believer, Pleiades, and The Walrus. A chapbook of recent work, The Solipsist, will be published by Bear Star Press in fall 2008. A native of Nova Scotia, Canada, he holds a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University and is currently an Associate Professor in the philosophy department at California State University, Chico.

In 1999, seven writers created a collective press dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. Ten years, ten new members, and eighteen books later, please join us for a gala celebration.

Valerie Berry • Dan Bellm • Terry Ehret • Gerald Fleming • Margaret Kaufman
Lynne Knight • Jackie Kudler • Nina Lindsay • Carolyn Miller
Susan Sibbet • Murray Silverstein • Gillian Wegener • Helen Wickes

Peter Campion is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, and editor of the journal Literary Imagination. He's the author of two books of poems, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009) both from the University of Chicago Press. His poems and prose have appeared recently in ArtNews, the Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New Republic, Sculpture, Slate, and The Yale Review. A former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, he's the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.

Suzanne Lummis' poems appear in the anthologies California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present, Poems of the American West (Knopf), Poetry Daily, Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology and in major literary publications in the US and UK, including The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review and Ploughshares. Her last collection, In Danger, was part of The California Poetry Series (Heyday Books /Roundhouse Press). She's completed a new collection, Open 24 Hours. Suzanne teaches several levels of poetry through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program including a course she developed — Poetry and the Movies: The Poem Noir. Poetry Flash says of her, "As writer, influential teacher and poetic instigator, Suzanne Lummis cuts a kind of kind of diva-impresario figure on the L.A. literary scene."

Niloufar Talebi, born in London to Iranian parents, is an award-winning translator. She founded The Translation Project in 2003 to bring contemporary Iranian literature to wide audiences with innovative book, theater and multimedia projects. Ms. Talebi is the editor and translator of BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, August 2008). She also created Midnight Approaches, a DVD of short videos and ICARUS/RISE, a multimedia theatrical piece, both based on new Iranian Poetry.

Susan Parker, writer and poet from Benicia, California, grew up with a love for all things Western. Her passion for cowboy poetry was sparked in 2003, after attending the Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. She regularly performs her original poetry as well as the classics, some of which are included on her CD, She Rode a Wild Horse.
Intrigued by pioneering women of the West, Susan has become a student of their writings: "I hear their voices as they pour out loneliness and frustration onto the page. Their courage and determination beg me to share their work."
When Susan isn’t performing or writing, she rides and volunteers at the Shingletown Wild Horse Sanctuary, where she gathers inspiration for her Western poetry.

Mick Vernon is the author of The Lyrical Lawman Rides, a book of original cowboy poetry (and CD by the same title). He pens poems about his time spent in the saddle working cattle with the Dobbas outfit in the Sierras near Auburn, California, and about other reflections of western life. He recites and sings original, contemporary, and classic favorites.
Currently the Artistic Director for the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival, Mick has held that position and/or the president’s position for six of the ten years the Monterey festival has existed.
A former part-time farrier, Big Sur trail ride guide, and a twenty-five year law enforcement veteran, Mick has performed at the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival, the California Rodeo Poetry Gathering, the Red Mule Ranch Cowboy Campfire, and numerous other venues.