Eva Salzman and Philip Nikolayev will be reading at the Pierre Menard Galley in Harvard Square on Sunday, May 22. The free reading begins at 6 p.m., and will be followed by free wine.

Eva Salzman is an American poet long resident in London. She has co-edited Women's Work: an anthology of international poetry, due out from Seren shortly. Her own latest book, Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems, is published by Bloodaxe, available from Dufour in the USA. She will also read poems by her late friend, the poet Sarah Hannah, whose books Longing Distance and The Latest Inflorescence, both appearing posthumously, are published by Tupelo.

Philip Nikolayev's fourth collection of poems, Letters from Aldenderry, is out of from Salt (UK). He is the translator of Samuel Beckett's French poems, the editor of the Complete Poems of Samuel Beckett (in preparation), and the editor of Fulcrum: an annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. He will read his original poems as well as his translations from Beckett. Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.

Pierre Menard Gallery is located at 10 Arrow Street in Cambridge, just around the corner from Cafe Pamplona, and is easily accessed via the Harvard Square T Stop on the Red Line.