Members of the literary community will read from All Souls, the posthumously published collection by Saskia Hamilton, whose poems and lyric fragments transform fear, expectation, and memory into art of the highest order. Readers will include Catherine Barnett, Susan Bernofsky, Maureen N. McLane, Maya Popa, Alice Quinn, James Fenton, Rosanna Warren, Sharon Olds, and others. All are invited.

About the Author

Saskia Hamilton (1967-2023) was the author of four collections of poetry, As for Dream, Divide These, Corridor, and All Souls. Her edited volumes include: The Letters of Robert Lowell; Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell; and The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, which received the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation and the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters from the Modern Language Association. She was also the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Co-presented by Graywolf Press and the Office of the Provost, the English Department and the Creative Writing Program at Barnard College.