Celebrate National Poetry Month with us!

We're thrilled to host poets Laura Moriarty, Elizabeth Herron, and youth poet Athena Ryan at NBLA in the first of a regular series of readings to highlight the literary and print arts.

• FREE and open to the public - please RSVP

• Light refreshments served

• Beautiful hand-set broadsides available with donation to NBLA

Laura Moriarty was the Director of the American Poetry Archives at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University for many years. She has taught at Naropa University and Mills College. She was Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution for two decades. She won the Poetry Center Book Award in 1983, a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award in Poetry in 1992, a New Langton Arts Award in Literature 1998 and a Fund for Poetry grant in 2007. Her most recent book of poetry is Personal Volcano from Nightboat Books. Her Which Walks is forthcoming, also from Nightboat.

Author of four previous books of poetry and five chapbooks as well as, most recently, In the Cities of Sleep from Fernwood Press, Elizabeth C. Herron also writes about the importance of natural systems in the well-being of all life. The Mesa Refuge for Writers, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Foundation for Deep Ecology have supported her work. She is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Writers and lives with her husband in Northern California where she is the current Poet Laureate of Sonoma County.