Two celebrated poets, Tess Gallagher and Alice Derry, will have a reading at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Vashon Bookshop.

Gallagher, the headliner of the event, will read from her new collection, “Is, Is Not.”

The poet, who divides her time between homes in Port Angeles and County Sligo, Ireland, has won numerous awards for her work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and a Maxine Cushing Gray Foundation Award.

She has published numerous collections of poetry, including “Instructions for a Double,” “Willingly” and “Moon Crossing Bridge.”

Poet Stanley Kunitz has described Gallagher as “outstanding among her contemporaries in the naturalness of her inflection, the fine excess of her spirit, and the energy of her dramatic imagination.”

She is also known for her remarkable relationships with two men: the writer Raymond Carver, to whom she was married until Carver’s death in 1988, and Josie Gray, a noted Irish painter, who was Gallagher’s longtime companion until his recent death.

Merna Hecht, who is Vashon’s poet laureate, said that Gallagher’s island appearance is a poetry event not be missed, noting that “Is, Is Not,” has been called “the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write.” The poems, she said, are guided by humor, grace and a deep inquiry into the natural world.

Hecht is also excited to welcome Alice Derry to the poetry reading.

Derry’s most recent book, “Hunger,” is a five-part response to hungers of all kinds, with a feminist edge.

Derry said, in a press release, that social justice has always been a part of her writing, and historical and current issues are addressed in the poems in “Hunger.”

Other titles include “Strangers to Their Courage,” a finalist for the Washington Book Award in 2002, and “Tremolo,” published in 2012. Derry was born in Oregon and raised in Washington and Montana. After 37 years of teaching writing and literature, Derry recently retired from Peninsula College. For more than 25 years, she also co-directed the Foothills Writers Series, hosting about 15 readings a year.