Virtual event on Zoom. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link upon registration.

The Community of Writers, the Marin Poetry Center and the Mill Valley Public Library invite you to a virtual book launch of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers. The evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop.

Join Cornelius Eady, Brenda Hillman, Evie Shockley (via recording) along with Pulitzer Prize winners Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, and Gregory Pardlo, and others to celebrate the publication of this extraordinary anthology, as they read and discuss poems first written during the Community of Writers’ Poetry Workshop.

Hosted by editor Lisa Alvarez;  evening emcee, Meryl Natchez; opening music by Cornelius Eady and his CE Trio.