Irish poets, Seamus Cashman and Joan McBreen will read from their work. Seamus Cashman’s most recent volume of poetry is That Morning Will Come: New and Selected Poetry. The new poems in this collection reflect Cashman's sense of place and of the spiritual groundings of daily life. Secrets, a sequence of thirteen poems written following a visit to Palestine, are passionate responses to contemporary political tragedy. Seamus Cashman is also the founder of one of Ireland's leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press, where he published the work of Benedict Kiely and Sebastian Barry along with many Irish children’s writers.

Joan McBreen is from Sligo, Ireland and moved from teaching to writing poetry in the 1980s. Since then she’s written Winter in the Eye and Heather Island and edited The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets, and The White Page: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets. Joan McBreen’s elegant and finely-tuned lyric voice and subtle simplicity of language make her poems of place and home exceptionally powerful; highlighting moments of universal awareness and reaching beyond the poet's life into our own.