Please join us for a celebration of the recently published books of poems Strong is Your Hold (Galway Kinnell), Space Walk (Tom Sleigh) and Silence Fell (the US Debut for Josephine Dickinson).

Galway Kinnell is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been state poet of Vermont. His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His latest collection, Strong is Your Hold, came out from Houghton Mifflin in 2006. He is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Tom Sleigh's books include After One, Waking, The Chain, The Dreamhouse, Far Side of the Earth, Bula Matari/Smasher of Rocks, and a translation of Euripides' Herakles. His book of essays, Interview With a Ghost, was published in spring, 2006, by Graywolf Press. His new book of poems, Space Walk, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in spring, 2007. Among his many awards are the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, an Academy of Arts and Letter Award in Literature, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College.

Josephine Dickinson was born in London. Following a childhood illness, she became profoundly deaf overnight at the age of six. She read Classics at Oxford then taught music whilst beginning to publish poems and develop a career as a composer under the tutelage of Michael Finnissy, Richard Barrett and others. Following a period as a community arts development worker in London she moved, in 1994, to Alston, a remote town high in the Cumbrian Pennines. There she met and married a retired farmer, who died in 2004. Her first UK book, Scarberry Hill, was published by The Rialto in 2001 and her second, The Voice, by Flambard in 2004. Silence Fell, published by Houghton Mifflin on March, 2007, is her US debut, and contains new poems and a selection from her first two books, arranged in the form of a modern day shepherd’s calendar, around the twelve months of the year. About the Series: Over the past eight years, the Reading Between A and B has brought together more than 400 established and emerging poets from varying aesthetics and backgrounds. Recent readers include Kimiko Hahn, Glyn Maxwell, H.L. Hix, Cole Swenson, Marie Howe, Mary Jo Bang, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Linda Gregg, Jean Valentine, Louis Glück, Forrest Gander, and Rigoberto Gonzalez. The series is curated by Kaveh Bassiri and Mary Austin Speaker. If you would like to subscribe to our email list, please visit our website, readab.com, or email info@readab.com.