May 16 at the Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker St., in Woodstock. o Paul Elisha will sign his book of poetry “Swash,” at 3:30 p.m. The Golden Notebook in Woodstock is host of the event. May 14 in Vanderlyn Hall lounge on the campus of Ulster County Community College in Stone Ridge. o Andrea Lee will read from and sign her book “Lost Hearts in Italy” at 4 p.m. May 16 in Oblongs Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery Row in Rhinebeck. o Mary Gaitskill, a National Book Award finalist, will read from her book “Don’t Cry” at 7:30 p.m. Stein is the author of 13 books of poetry, including a new verse translation of “The Odyssey” and “The Hat Rack Tree.” His prose includes a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, “Persephone Unveiled,” “The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum” and a collaborative study with George Quasha, “An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings.” Suggested donation, $10. Sunday at the Deep Listening Institute, suite 303 of the Shirt Factory at 77 Cornell St. o Charles Stein will be featured in a “conversation” and salon reading of his unpublished manuscripts at Live Letters Aloud from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday in Barnes & Noble, South Road, Poughkeepsie. o Nava Atlas, author of “Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife,” will read from and sign her book at 3 p.m. today in the Roth Hall bookstore at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. BOOK SIGNINGS, READINGS o Peter Rose will sign her book, “Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch” from noon to 2 p.m. Will Nixon, of Woodstock, author of “My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse” as well as two chapbooks, is winner of the 2001 Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award.

Del Marbrook, of Germantown, author of “Far From Algiers,” is winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from Kent State University Press.

Spireng, of Lomontville, author of “Out of Body,” winner of the 2004 Bluestem Poetry Award from Emporia State University in Kansas, also has written four published chapbooks. May 9 at Oblong Books and Music, 6422 Montgomery Row in Rhinebeck. POETRY READING HONORS MOMS o Three award-winning area poets will wax eloquently about mothers and motherhood at 4 p.m. All are free-of-charge unless otherwise indicated.

The following is a partial listing of area book-related events.

Read Us or Die by Jason Gehlert