Polly Giantonio with Ina Anderson -- Remember the Sweetness & Sky Furniture

Join poet Polly Giantonio for a celebration of her debut collection Remember the Sweetness! Polly will be joined by Ina Anderson who will be reading from her collection Sky Furniture.Remember the Sweetness is a retrospective poetry debut about the beauty of the invisible and the language of the heart.

“A deeply personal exploration of memory, family, and the fleeting moments that shape our lives.” —Jim Bennett, managing editor of PoetryKit.org“What sort of thing is a life? This thing sourced at the whim of two other lives soon gone…” What is a life and who does it answer to? Ina Anderson’s poems embrace connection with myriad other lives: a homeless veteran, a migrant, a weaver in a carpet factory in India. She conjures an imagined, yet-unborn great-granddaughter in an unimaginable future world. All are part of one human family, bound in mutual responsibility to “this thing,” this life. Sky Furniture carries us through a life resonant with care, close awareness, and ample joy. Deftly rendered scenes frame deep human concern, and profound love for what is. This book is a testament of hope.

– Cynthia Huntington, Finalist, National Book Award in Poetry, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
Polly Giantonio’s poems have appeared in various journals including the Comstock Review, Café Review, and Poets & Writers. She lives in rural Vermont and has led writing workshops for the Vermont Arts Council, the Central Vermont Council on Aging, and the Vermont Community Foundation.Ina Anderson was born and raised in Cumbria in the northwest of England. She has now lived
in Vermont for many years.
Her first work was in editing scientific journals,
including the Journal of Neurosurgery, and Icarus: International Journal of Solar System Science,
with editor Carl Sagan.
She later took to teaching, spending over
twenty years at the Community College of Vermont
as a faculty member and student advisor.

Ina’s poems have appeared in many publications, including Birchsong, This Place I Know,
When All This Is Over, The Mountain Troubadour,
Poem Town Randolph, and Literary North.
Several of her poems appeared in the Pie Poets anthologies, Perhaps It Was the Pie, 2014,
and The Party Cabinet, 2023.