Sarah Dickenson Snyder & Laura Foley -- To Eve & Sister in a Different Movie

Join poets Sarah Dickeson Snyder and Laura Foley for an evening of poetry! They be reading from their latest collections; To Eve and Sister in a Different Movie.In To Eve, Sarah Dickenson Snyder dismantles the mythology of blame and rewrites the story of the first woman as one of agency, hunger, and sacred curiosity. Both intimate and expansive, this book-length poem insists that knowledge is not a fall, but a beginning.In Sister in a Different Movie, four sisters confront a legacy of war trauma, mental illness, and enduring bonds. Through imagistic, musically rich poems, the youngest seeks to understand their father’s past and its impact, discovering that even estrangement cannot sever the deep, complicated ties between siblings that shape lives.After years in the classroom, Sarah Dickenson Snyder now carves in stone, sculls on the Connecticut River, and rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has five poetry collections: The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), With a Polaroid Camera (2019), and Now These Three Remain (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2023), and To Eve (Nixes Mate Review 2026). Several poems have been nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prizes. Work is in Rattle, Verse Daily, and RHINO. sarahdickensonsnyder.comThe winner of an Eric Hoffer Award, the Good Books Poetry Award, and others, Laura Foley is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently, Sister in a Different Movie. She has been published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso, One Art, American Life in Poetry, featured often on The Writer’s Almanac, and included in anthologies such as How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. She holds graduate degrees in Literature from Columbia University, and lives with her wife on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in New Hampshire.