Free + Open mic. Oakland poet, Marty Williams's work appears most recently in Atlanta Review, The Heron Tree and Poetry East, as well as in anthologies, Bearing Witness: Poetry By Teachers About Teaching and Winged: New Writing About Bees. With the Bay Area Writing Project and Amherst Writers and Artists, Marty leads writing workshops through Room to Write for writers of all ages. She also co-coordinates the monthly Bay Area Writing Project reading series, Teachers Write – Writers Teach. Marty is currently working on a manuscript, The Forest Within, poems about hometown Oakland, California, and her homeground, Alaska.