Ina Anderson Poetry Reading

An evening of poetry with Ina Anderson, reading from her new collection Sky Furniture at the Royalton Memorial Library. “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. 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, and Literary North. Several of her poems appeared in the Pie Poets anthologies, Perhaps It Was the Pie, 2014, and The Party Cabinet, 2023. Her first collection, Journey Into Space, published in 2017 by Antrim House, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her recent collection, Sky Furniture, was published by Kelsay Books in 2024.