Award-winning poets Linda Pastan (Almost an Elegy: New and Selected Poems) and Shelley Puhak (Harbinger: Poems) will read from their latest poetry collections as well as reflect on the themes that run throughout their respective books.   

Linda Pastan is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry and a two-time National Book Award finalist.  She is the former poet laureate of Maryland. 

Shelley Puhak is the author of two prior poetry collections as well as the non-fiction title The Dark Queens. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic.