Gigi Bradford, Louisa Newlin - Shakespeare’s Sisters

Thursday, February 16, at 6 p.m.

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE
Gigi Bradford, Louisa Newlin - Shakespeare’s Sisters (Folger Library, $19.99)

Dr. Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, cordially invites you to an evening with Rita Dove, Linda Gregerson, Elizabeth Nuñez, Linda Pastan, Jacqueline Osherow, and Jane Smiley. Contributors to the chapbook published in conjunction with the Folger exhibition Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700

At 6 p.m., there will be an exhibition viewing and at 7 p.m., there will be readings from Shakespeare’s Sisters in the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room. The conversation will be moderated by Gigi Bradford and Louisa Newlin, editors of the Shakespeare's Sisters chapbook

Chapbooks will be available for purchase and a signing will follow the reading. Tickets are available for purchase online or call the box office at 202.544.7077.

For additional information about the Celebration of 1,000 Years of Women Writers,

visit www.folger.edu/womenwriters