Join us for our monthly Poetry Reading Series featuring Rebecca Foust, Lucille Lang Day & Elizabeth Herron.

Rebecca Foust’s eight books include YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems, soon to be issued in a second edition by Blue Light Press, and ONLY (Four Way Books 2022). Her poems, appearing in Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, POETRY, Southern Review and elsewhere, won the James Dickey and Fischer Prizes in 2024, and in recent years, the New Ohio Review, Pablo Neruda, James Hearst, and Poetry International prizes. Other recognitions include fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and Sewanee.  

Lucille Lang Day is the author of four poetry chapbooks and seven full-length collections, most recently Birds of San Pancho and Becoming an Ancestor. The Cosmos and Me: New and Selected Poems will be published by Trio House Press in October 2026. She has also edited three poetry anthologies and published two children’s books and a memoir. Her poems have appeared in more than 200 publications, such as The Cincinnati Review, The Hudson Review, River Styx, The Threepenny Review, Scientific American, ZYZZYVA, and Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and eleven Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the founder and publisher of a small press, Scarlet Tanager Books. lucillelangday.com

Elizabeth Herron, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2022–2024) is author of Insistent Grace, In the Cities of Sleep (Fernwood Press) and The Poet’s House; Desire Being Full of Distances. Her work has appeared widely, including in Reflections; West Marin Review; Comstock Review; Ecopoetry of California; Parabola; Mysticism & Awakening. She’s a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers. Herron’s new book, In the Cities of Sleep was shortlisted for the California Book Award.  She says poetry is a "process of sorting images and words, it might be thought of like ransacking a pile of laundry to find the other sock."