POETRY READING WITH MARY GILLILAND & JAMES BYRNE

01/22/2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Poetry
Reading

This reading will launch acclaimed author Mary Gilliland’s new collection Within the Shop of the Divine, her first book out in the UK. Mary will also read from and discuss her recent chapbook Red Tide at Sandy Bend. Mary will be joined by poet and translator James Byrne whose most recent books are Nightsongs for Gaia: New & Selected Poems and The Overmind, and the co-translated Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences by Rohingya poet Ro Mehrooz. The event will be followed by a book signing.

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Free. Open to the public. All are welcome.

Odyssey Bookstore
115 W Green Street Lower Level
Ithaca, NY 14850