You are invited to celebrate three gorgeous new titles from Sixteen Rivers, treasured local press. Chrisitina Lloyd, Murray Silverstein, and Alice Templeton will add some magic to your October, and MPC will provide some pumpkiny snacks!

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Manila and San Francisco, Christina Lloyd holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University. Her work appears in a wide variety of publications, including Canadian Woman Studies, EcoTheo, Hive, Meniscus, Poetry Daily, Poetry Ireland, Poet Lore, The North, and SWWIM. Women Twice Removed, published by Sixteen Rivers Press, is her first full-length collection. She lives in San Francisco.

Red Studio is Murray Silverstein’s third book of poems. His first collection, Any Old Wolf (2007), was the winner of Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal for Poetry and was followed by Master of Leaves (2014). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Rattle, ZYZZYVA, The MacGuffin, The Brooklyn Review, West Marin Review, Plainsongs, Nimrod, The Dreaming Machine, and Spillway. Silverstein lives in Oakland, California.

Alice Templeton’s poetry collection The Infinite Field was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in April 2024. Her chapbook Archaeology won the 2008 New Women’s Voices Prize in Poetry from Finishing Line Press, and her poems have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, Nimrod, Poetry, and other publications. She is the author of a scholarly book on Adrienne Rich’s poetics and articles on contemporary poetry and literary theory. Templeton lives in Point Richmond, California.

In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center

About the Marin Poetry Center Reading Series: A vibrant, varied selection of accomplished poets from near and far present their latest work in this lively and engaging monthly series. Doors open at 6:15. Reading begins at 6:30.