Tiffany Midge & Kim Stafford (MPC Poetry Reading Series) In-Person
The Marin Poetry Center is lucky and 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. Midge’s books of essays are Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s and The Dreamcatcher in the Wry, both from Bison Books. Midge is a columnist for High Country News and aspires to be the Distinguished Writer in Residence for Seattle’s Space Needle.
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.
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.