Poet and translator Jane Hirshfield, author of seven books of poetry, including "Come, Thief," and "After," will speak in Minneapolis at 7 p.m. tonight (Monday, April 15) at Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Av., Mpls.

Hirshfield graduated from Princeton University in the first class that included women. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. She has published four books of poetry in translation, including "Mirabai," which she worked on with Robert Bly.

Her reading this evening is free and open to the public.