Admission is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of books by Jane Hirshfield will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Winner of the Poetry Center Book Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal and numerous other honors, Hirshfield writes poetry which relates the interconnectedness of the human and natural worlds. She is also a translator of women's poetry and an acclaimed essayist on the subject of poetry and writing in general. Again in 1997 she published two books to abundant critical praise, Nine Gates and her fourth collection of poems, The Lives of the Heart. Given Sugar, Given Salt is her fifth volume of poetry.