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SUMMARY:An Evening with Poet Laureates
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate and toast the newly appointed 
 California Poet Laureate\, Lee Herrick! He will be joined by current San 
 Francisco Poet Laureate\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and Marin County Poet 
 Laureate Emerita\, Becky Foust. Each will share poems and we’ll have a 
 Poet Laureate Panel for question and answers\, followed by a short 
 reception to honor Lee. In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Society. 
 Registration is Required.\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\nLee Herrick is the California 
 Poet Laureate. He is the author of three books of poems: Scar and Flower\, 
 Gardening Secrets of the Dead\, and This Many Miles from Desire. He is 
 co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and 
 Spirit. His writing appears in anthologies such as HERE: Poems for the 
 Planet\, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama\; Indivisible: Poems of 
 Social Justice\, with an introduction by Common\; and Dear America: Letters 
 of Hope\, Habitat\, Defiance\, and Democracy\, among others. Born in 
 Daejeon\, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months\, Lee is a 
 Fresno Poet Laureate emeritus that teaches at Fresno City College and the 
 MFA program at the University of Nevada\, Reno at Lake 
 Tahoe.\n\n\n\n\nTongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker\, and 
 educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, 
 We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing 
 tool throughout the country. His book titled\, Someone's Dead Already was 
 nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book Heaven Is All 
 Goodbyes was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series\, was 
 shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award 
 and an American Book Award. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet 
 laureate.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\nRebecca Foust’s fourth full-length book ONLY 
 (Four Way Books 2022) received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. 
 Recognitions include runner up for the 2022 Missouri Review Editors Prize\, 
 winner of the Pablo Neruda\, CP Cavafy\, and James Hearst poetry prizes\, a 
 Marin County Poet Laureateship\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, 
 MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Recent poems are in The Common\, Five Points\, 
 Ploughshares\, POETRY\, and Quarterly West.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Anji Brenner":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.gov
CATEGORIES:In Person, Poetry
CONTACT;CN="Anji Brenner":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.gov
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