Broadside Bookshop presents Leah Nielsen, author of No Magic (Word Press), and Chivas Sandage, author of Hidden Drive (Antrim House), reading and signing their books at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 29, 2013.

Both poets will read and discuss their books, favorite rejection slips, and new work.

The Broadside Bookshop is located at 247 Main Street in Northampton, MA. This event is free and open to the public. For more information: http://www.broadsidebooks.com

Leah Nielsen’s first collection of poetry, No Magic, was published by Word Press, a division of WordTech Communications, in 2005. Most recently, her poems have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, and Rattle. She is currently at work on a second manuscript, Side Effects May Include, a poetic examination of her experience as a chronic pain patient. Born and raised in Williamsburg and Norge, Virginia, she holds a bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She teaches at Westfield State University, in Westfield, MA, and lives there with her husband and two wild and crazy dogs.

Chivas Sandage’s first book of poetry, Hidden Drive, was published by Antrim House in August 2012. Her poems and essays recently appeared in Drunken Boat, Equality Texas, Evergreen Review, The Hartford Courant, Naugatuck River Review, The New Civil Rights Movement, and Morning Song: Poems for New Parents (St. Martin’s Press, ’11). Currently, she’s working on a book-length meditation on how our lives are connected to other lives throughout the world. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Bennington College. Originally from Houston, she lived in the Pioneer Valley from 1995-2010. Sandage facilitates women’s creative writing workshops in Northampton, Massachusetts and Collinsville, Connecticut, where she lives with her wife and daughter. She blogs at http://www.csandage.com.