Let’s kick off National Poetry Month with the tender and ferocious poems of Geffrey Davis and Sam Sax! Plus, homemade strawberry shortcake with freshly whipped cream.

Geffrey Davis is the author of three collections of poetry: One Wild Word Away (2024), Night Angler (2019), and Revising the Storm (2014), winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published in New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis teaches for the University of Arkansas’s MFA in Creative Writing & Translation and for The Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.

Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They‘re the author Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They‘re the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Granta and elsewhere. Sam‘s received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, Lambda Lit, MacDowell, and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University.

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.