“Only in Russia is poetry respected, it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?” — Osip Mandelstam
There must be something in Marin’s air that seeds poetry. How many among the other 3,143 counties or their equivalents have produced not one, but two poet laureates of the United States? Kay Ryan, a Fairfax resident, is the most recent one and has served two annual terms.…