We received this from Martin Hickel. He is a fabulous poet and runs this poetry series.

Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif.
Wednesday, July 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, July 15 Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333 will host readings by three distinguished poets associated with the Bay Area. Dorianne Laux, Joe
Millar and Ellen Bass.




Dorianne Laux is the author of Facts About the Moon (W. W. Norton 2005), which was the recipient of the Oregon Book Award, chosen by Ai, and a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award Her other collections include Smoke (BOA Editions, 2000); What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award; and Awake (1990), which was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry. Among her awards are a Pushcart
Prize, an Editor's Choice III Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Laux has taught at the University of Oregon's Program in Creative
Writing. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she serves among the faculty at North Carolina State University's MFA Program.

Joseph Millar is an American poet. He was raised in western Pennsylvania and after an adult life spent mostly in the SF Bay Area and the Northwest, now
lives in North Carolina. Millar received an MA degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. He has worked as a telephone installation foreman and commercial
fisherman and in 1997 gave up this blue collar life to try his hand at teaching. His writing includes two books of poetry, Overtime (Eastern Washington University
Press 2001), a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press 2006), as well as two chapbooks, "Slow Dancer", Cherry
Valley Editions, 1992, and "Nightbound", Idaho Review Press, 2009. He is married to poet Dorianne Laux; they live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ellen Bass's fourth book of poems, The Human Line, was published by Copper Canyon Press in June 2007. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the
groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973), has published several previous volumes of poetry, including Mules
of Love (BOA, 2002) which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including The Atlantic Monthly,
Ms., The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Field. She was awarded the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the University of
Cincinnati, Nimrod/Hardman's Pablo Neruda Prize, The Missouri Review's Larry Levis Award, the Greensboro Poetry Prize, the New Letters Poetry Prize, the
Chautauqua Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a Fellowship from the California Arts Council.

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