David Koehn and Maw Shein Win will brighten any mid-winter blues we may have with the beauty of their poems and persons. Witty repartee and delicious snacks will also be served.

David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize with his first book, "Twine" (Bauhan Publishing, 2013). Judith Kitchen in the Georgia Review applauded it as “illuminated”and complicated”by invention.” He published "Compendium" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017), revisiting Donald Justice's approach to prosody. Koehn's second book of poems, "Scatterplot" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020), per a review in Gulfstream, "helps make sense of the world."  "Sur," his third full-length collection, was released by Omnidawn in the fall of 2024.  Koehn's writing appears in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, Diagram, McSweeney's, The Greensboro Review, North American Review, The Rumpus, Smartish Pace, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, Zyzzva, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. He earned his BA in Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon and an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Florida. David has taught a post-graduate workshop, “Prosody as A Form of Revision,” for the last decade and a post-graduate workshop, “Forms: Breaking The Bowl,” for the past five years both online for Omnidawn.

Maw Shein Win's latest full-length poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn, 2024). Her previous full-length collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for the Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Her work has recently been published in The American Poetry Review, The Margins, The Bangalore Review, and other literary journals. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. Win's previous collections include Invisible Gifts and two chapbooks, Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone. Win often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers and her Process Note Series features poets on their process. LiteraryCherry is an ongoing project in collaboration with Adrian Jesus de la Peña. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at USF and is a member of The Writers Grotto. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a literary community. mawsheinwin.com

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.