S U N S E T P O E T R Y  B Y  T H E B A Y
  Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333
333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif.
Wednesday, September 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Zara Raab, Mark Turpin, Gillian Conoley & Stefanie Marlis


Zara Raab’s poems appear in West Branch, Arts & Letters, Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has literary reviews now (or forthcoming) in Poetry Flash, Rattle on-line, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Colorado Review. Her Book of Gretel came out this spring; her first full-length collection, Swimming the Eel, is due out in 2011. She lives and writes in San Francisco.

Mark Turpin's first full-length collection, Hammer, published by Sarabande Books, won the Ploughshares' Zacharis First Book Award in 2004.  In 1997 he received a Whiting award.  His poems have appeared in the The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and Slate among others; they have been read on the Lehr News Hour (for Labor Day) and by Garrison Keillor for The Writer's Almanac.  His work appears in many anthologies, and is also embedded in a Berkeley sidewalk as part of the Addison Street Anthology, selected by Bob Hass.  He is the son of a Presbyterian minister. He received a Masters in Poetry from Boston University at age 47, otherwise, he has spent 25 years working construction and building houses. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.

Gillian Conoley was born in Austin Texas, where, on its rural outskirts, her father and mother owned and operated a radio station. Her most recent collection is THE PLOT GENIE with Omnidawn Publishing (fall 2009), which is just going into its second printing. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including PROFANE HALO, LOVERS IN THE USED WORLD, and TALL STRANGER, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has received many prizes, including the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Fund for Poetry Award, and has been anthologized in over 20 national and international anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s American Hybrid, Counterpath’s Postmodern Lyricism, and Oscar Mondadori’s Nuova Poesia Americana. Editor and founder of Volt magazine, she teaches in the Program for Writers and Poets at Sonoma State University. She is currently translating Henri Michaux’s Four Hundred Men on the Cross.

Stefanie Marlis's first book of poetry, Slow Joy, won the Brittingham Prize from the University of Wisconsin in 1989 and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in 1990. She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as three California prizes: two Marin Arts Council Awards and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Zyzzyva, Arshile, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Manoa, The Gettysburg Review, and Volt. Marlis has taught at the College of Marin, San Francisco State University, and the University of San Francisco. She now makes her living as a freelance copywriter. In this capacity, she has recently written a book entitled The Art of the Bath for Chronicle Books. Marlis lives in San Anselmo, California, with her dog, Io.

Studio 333 Art Gallery ~ 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, Calif. -- (415) 331-8272
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