The Collected Poets Series featuring Josephine Dickinson and Sharon Dolin

The Collected Poets Series highlights the work of established and emerging poets. Each event showcases the remarkable local poets of Western Massachusetts and the finest regional, national, and international talent.
Josephine Dickinson has published four collections of poetry, Scarberry Hill (The Rialto, UK, 2001), The Voice (Flambard, UK, 2004), Silence Fell (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA, 2007) and Night Journey (Flambard, UK, November 2008). She grew up in London, read classics and philosophy at Oxford and had a career as a composer before moving to Cumbria, UK, where she lives on a tiny hill farm high up in the Pennines near Alston. Earth Journey is her latest project, a collaboration with painter Lionel Playford and film maker Alastair Simmons.
Sharon Dolin’s fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). Recent winner of a Pushcart Prize (2011), she is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School and also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.