VirtualPoets! Kim Shuck hosts featured poets David Gorin and Caroline Goodwin and the open mic that follows.

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David Gorin is the author of To a Distant Country, selected by Jennifer Chang for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and forthcoming in 2025. His writing received the 2023 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and has been supported by MacDowell and Millay Arts. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA, MA, and MPhil in English Literature from Yale University. In recent years he has taught creative writing and literature at the Pratt Institute, Deep Springs College, Stanford Continuing Studies, Eastern Correctional Facility (via the Bard Prison Initiative), and Yale. He is the curator of the WAVEMACHINE poetry + performance series in San Francisco. Follow him on Instagram @davidgorin and via www.davidgorin.net.

Caroline Goodwin’s recent books are Old Snow, White Sun (JackLeg Press), Madrigals (Big Yes Press), and Matanuska  (Aquifer Press, Wales, UK). A former Stegner Fellow in poetry, she teaches at California College of the Arts, Stanford Continuing Studies, and UC Berkeley Extension; from 2014-16 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, where she lives on the coast with her two pugs, Jimi Hendrix and Lyric.