WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 - 11, 2008
Poem of the week, "Losing My Hair," with audio, featured by Robert Pinsky on Slate magazine, online.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Keynote speech at the third annual Dean's List Dinner, 5:30 pm, in the North Dining Hall, University of Maine at Farmington.
Contact Wendy Orosz at 207-778-7035.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008
Interview about poetry on Public Access Television, Franklin County area, 2-3 pm.
Contact Ruth Evans, 645-3299.
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
Presentation, "My Life as a Poet," 7 pm at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine.
Contact Cathie Pelletier at cathpell@aol.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008
Australian Broadcasting Network radio broadcast of McNair's poem "The Before People."
To listen, visit http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/, where the poem will be available throughout the month.
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008
Performance of "Driving in Maine," a musical composition by Nancy Gunn based on four McNair poems: "Driving North in Winter," "Glass Night," "What They Are," "Where I Live." 2 p.m., Nordica Auditorium. Performance will be preceded by a discussion of their collaboration by Gunn and McNair, with Philip Carlson moderating.
Contact Nancy Gunn at nancy.gunn@maine.edu.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008
Reading and presentation about poetry at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, 7 p.m.
Contact Cathie Pelletier for details, at cathpell@aol.com.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
April 11 Appearance with fellow contributors at book launch of The Healing Touch, a hospice anthology edited by Richard Russo, at the Waterville Area Hospice Volunteers Center on 304 Main Street, Waterville, Maine, from 4 - 6 pm.
Contact Rosemary Herbert at rherbert@downeast.com.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
Reading and class visits with student writers at Derryfield Academy, Manchester, NH
Contact Bob Cole, at bcole@derryfield.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008
Keynote speaker for the New Hampshire Writers Project's "Writers Day."
Contact Barbara Yoder, at b.yoder@nhwritersproject.org.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008
Workshop with poetry prompts, judging of poetry slam and reading, times TBA. Keene State College, Keene, NH.
Contact Katherine St. Martin, at kstmartin@ksc.mailcruiser.com.
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008
Reading with Bill Roorbach from new anthology The Healing Touch, Stories of Life, Death and Hospice, edited by Richard Russo, at 7 pm in the Farmington Public Library.
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008
Awards and remarks with fellow judges Linda Greenlaw and Richard Russon at the Governor's Young Writers Luncheon and Ceremony, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2008
Gathering of writers represented in the hospice anthology A Healing Touch at the Fieldstone Gardens in Vassalboro, Maine, 10-3 (Wesley McNair and Bill Roorbach, from 1-2).
Contact Dale Marie Clark, 207-873-3615 x 13
Alternative Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008
SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2008
Reading at 8 pm in Somesville, Maine, at the Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore by Gerry Boyle, Sandy Phippen and Susan Hand Shetterly, contributors to the newly published anthology of essays, A Place Called Maine, edited by Wesley McNair.
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2008
Reading of poems, 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall, Ocean Park, ME.
Contact Ted Poland, at 207-934-5090.
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008
Reading at 7 pm in Farmington, Maine, at the Farmington Public Library by Alice Bloom and Robert Kimber, contributors to A Place Called Maine, an anthology of essays edited by Wesley McNair.
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2008
Reading at 7 pm in Castine, Maine, at the Unitarian/ Universalist church on the green by Robert Kimber and Susan Hand Shetterly, contributors to A Place Called Maine, edited by Wesley McNair.
TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008
Reading from A Place on Water at the Gold leaf Institute, the senior college at the University of Maine at Farmington, with Robert Kimber and Bill Roorbach, 1-2 pm, followed by a visit to Drury Pond.
Contact goldleaf@maine.edu.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2008
Reading of poetry at the Belgrade Center for All Seasons, Belgrade Village, Maine, 7 p.m.
Contact Maureen at newmanpratt@verizon.net.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Reading from anthology of essays edited by Wesley McNair, A Place Called Maine, at noon in the Portland Public Library's Brown Bag authors series: Monica Wood, Bill Roorbach and Wesley McNair.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20
My Life as a Poet, by Wesley McNair, an autobiography with slides featuring photographs, letters from mentors, manuscript revisions and other autobiographical oddments showing a life and how poems were made from it (all slides derived from the McNair Archive at Colby College).
Presentation and reception In the Special Collections wing of Baker Library, 4 p.m.
2009 Events
SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2009
Reading in the Donald Hall Writers Series at Plymouth State College, 3 p.m.
Contact Diane Jeffrey at djeffrey@plymouth.edu.
SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2009 - FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009
Workshop in poetry writing at the Haystack School for Crafts.
Contact Stu Kestenbaum at 207-348-2306.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2007
Reading of poem "My Town" at the Inauguration of Governor John Baldacci.
7:00pm. Civic Center, Augusta, Maine. Contact info@maineinauguration.com.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2007
Reading from The Ghosts of You and Me at the Portland Public Library.
12:00pm. Portland Public Library, Brown Bag Lunch reading and lecture series. Contact Kristi Belesca, at belesca@portland.lib.me.us.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2007
Poetry Reading.
8:00pm. Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Contact Shirley Adams, Administrative Assistant, at sadams@holycross.edu.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007
Workshop Craft Lessons: The Use of the Line in Free Verse with student Q & A and live stream audio.
4:00pm. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Contact Lea Graham, at leag@charter.net.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2007
Reading of two poems at the inauguration of David Caruso, new President at Antioch University New England.
4:00pm. Colonial Theater in Keene, NH. Contact Jack Calhoun, at jcalhoun@antiochne.edu.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2007
Reading of poems in "poetribe" series.
8:00pm. East Bridgewater Public Library, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Contact Vicki Murray, at victoriaboschmurray@hotmail.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2007
Reading of poems from The Ghosts of You and Me.
7:30pm. University of Maine at Farmington, Thomas Auditorium, Farmington, Maine. Contact Shari Witham at 778-7425.
THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
Reading of poems for the Literacy Volunteers Signature Event, Maine Author's Night.
6:00pm. Thornton Academy Library, Saco, Maine. Contact Cindy Drew Johnson, Literacy Volunteers of Greater Saco-Biddeford 207-283-2954.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2007
Reading of poems from The Ghosts of You and Me, sponsored by the Witherle Memorial Library.
7:00pm. Parish hall of the Unitarian Church, Castine, Maine. Contact Ann Romans, at afr@witherle.lib.me.us.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007
Luncheon and presentation of prizes for the Young Writers Awards with Governor Baldacci, the First Lady and fellow judges Richard Russo and Linda Greenlaw.
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Maple Hill Farm in Augusta, Maine. Contact Ellyn Chase, at echase@mccs.me.edu.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2007
Presentation as faculty poet, "My Life as a Poet," with slides including photographs, manuscripts, letters from mentors, and other materials from his archive at Colby College, at the Down East Writers Conference on Deer Isle, including Q&A and brief follow-up reading of related poems.
Friday morning, time TBA. Deer Isle, ME. Contact Stephen York, Proprietor of Mr. York's Book Shoppe, at 207-669-4431.
See web site for conference at www.DowneastWriters.com.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2007
"My Life as a Poet," multimedia presentation with slides derived from personal papers housed at Colby College, part of the Maine Reads program, June 22-24, in Portland, Maine.
11:30am - 12:30 p.m., plus 15 minutes for book signing. Maine Historical Society. Contact Sarah Cecil at info@mainereads.org, (207) 871-9100.
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2007
Author signing at the third annual Books & Blooms in Boothbay, a continuing joint venture of the MWPA and The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
Boothbay, ME. Contact Wayne Sheridan at waysher@hotmail.com.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2007
Literary Garden Party, at the home of Tess Gerritsen in Camden, Maine. Sponsored by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
Time, TBA. Contact Shonna Milliken Humphrey, (207)228-8263, http://www.mainewriters.org.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007
Multimedia memoir, with slides, "My Life as a Poet."
8 p.m. Clarkpoint Room at the Claremont Hotel. Contact Janet Madeira, at clmhotel@adelphia.net.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2007
Presentations at 9:30 a.m. in the Lisbon Town Hall, and at 1:30 in the Littleton Area Senior Center in the "You Come Too" New England author series in Lisbon, NH.
Contact Senior Center at 603-444-6080.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2007
Reading and workshop at the Maine Correctional Center, Windham, Maine.
Contact Susan Richardson at susanrr@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007
Reader in "An Evening with Maine Poets, 7-9 p.m., at the First Parish Church, Congress Street, Portland, ME.
Contact Maine Historical Society, at 207-774-1822.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2006
Announcement at Jazz at Lincoln Center of the 50 inaugural USA Fellows, in the amount of $50,000 each, to be awarded annually to "America's finest living American artists" and including among the first fellows Wesley McNair. For further details, visit United States Artists, at unitedstatesartists.org.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2006
Reading of poems from The Ghosts of You and Me at the Louis T. Graves Memorial Library, Kennebunk, Maine.
2:00 p.m.
Further details at: http://www.graves.lib.me.us/.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2006
A reading of poems and discussion of two anthologies: The
Maine Poets and Contemporary Maine Fiction.
1:15 p.m., Quarry Hill Library, Camden, Maine.
Contact, Mary Lou Eugley, Facilitator, 230-6509.
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006
Poem "Happiness" to be aired nationally on the
NPR daily program "The Writer's Almanac," with Garrison Keillor.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25 , 2006
Poem "Making Things Clean " to be aired nationally
on the NPR daily program "The Writer's Almanac," with Garrison Keillor.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006
Videotaped Interview, Q & A with graduate
students, and public reading of poems.
State University of New York at Brockport.
Contact, Professor Anne Panning, Co-Director of Writers Forum, 585-395-5933; apanning@brockport.edu .
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006
Celebration of the purchase of the Wesley McNair
papers at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, including a presentation by Wesley
McNair on his life as a poet, with slides of photos, drawings, documents, and
letters from the collection.
4:00pm - Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Contact, Patricia Burdick, Head of Special Collections Library, 872-3000.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006
A poetry reading.
Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, ME. 3:00pm
Contact, Gretchen Gfeller, gg@umit.maine.edu.
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006
Presentation at the University of Maine at Farmington
on a life in poetry, illustrated by slides from the McNair papers at Colby
College.
7:30pm. Thomas Auditorium in Ricker Hall, UMF.
Contact, Patricia O'Donnell, Director of the Creative Writing program, at 778-7419.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 - SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2006
The Northrop Frye International Literary Festival
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2006
Graduation speaker.
6:00pm NH Community Technical College, Claremont, NH
Contact: President Susan Henderson at (603) 542-7744 x2270.
FRIDAY, MAY 20-26 , 2006
Poetry conferences, with workshop and reading of poems, dates TBA.
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Contact Forrest Cole, 802-635-2727.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2006
Journey into Writing Contest Awards Luncheon for high-school writers
in Maine, including judges Wesley McNair, Richard Russo, and Linda Greenlaw,
and contest winners. Post-luncheon presentation by Governor Baldacci of three "Governor's
Designation Young Writer of the Year" awards.
11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m. Maple Hill Farm Conference Center, Hallowell, Maine.
Contact Ellyn Chase at echase@mccs.me.edu,
or 207-629-4007.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3 , 2006
"Maine Writers about Maine." A panel discussion including Wesley McNair, Robert Kimber, and others, TBA.
4:00pm University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, Maine.
Contact: Michael Burke, 207-778-7205. See web site for conference, June 2-4, "Maine's Place in the Environmental Imagination," http://www.asle.umf.maine.edu/.
SATURDAY, JUNE 24 , 2006
Reading by Wesley McNair, Bob Kimber and Bill Roorbach.
6:30pm Solon Meeting House, Solon, Maine.
Contact Barbara Sullivan at 643-2721.
SATURDAY, JULY 22 , 2006
"Blooms and Books" book-signing, with a range of Maine authors, at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine.
Gardens open at 11 a.m., event starting at 12 p.m. Rain date: July 23.
Contact: Wayne Sheridan, at waysher@hotmail.com.
FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2006
Reading with April Ossmann in the Wayne Poetry Series, at the Cary Memorial Library, 17 Old Winthrop Road, Wayne, Maine.
7:30p.m.
Contact Dave Moreau at 685-3612.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006
An introduction to two Maine anthologies, Contemporary Maine Fiction and The Maine Poets. Port-in-a-Storm Bookstore, Somesville, Maine.
8:00 p.m. Janis Coates, at nyoda@acadia.net.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 , 2006
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance honors writers Wesley McNair, Neil Rolde and Monica Wood at its Literary Garden Party, Open Books. Hosts include Tess and Jacob Gerritson, Kristina and Richard Ford, and Mary Herman and Angus King. The USM Stone House on Wolfneck Road in Freeport.
2:00 p.m. Contact Shonna Humphreys, Director, MWPA, at 228-8150, or shumphrey@usm.maine.edu.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2006
Reading of poems at the Robert Frost Farm, Derry, New Hampshire.
2:00 p.m. Contact Claire Ternan at cternan@stchrisschoolnh.org., or 603-889-8334.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
Poetry workshop, "Line, Image and Action," at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
Contact Stu Kestenbaum, Director, at 207-348-2306 or haystack@haystack-mtn.org or visit www.haystack-mtn.org www.haystack-mtn.org.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2006
Reading of poems in "poetribe" series..East Bridgewater Public Library, East Bridgewater, MA.
8:00 p.m. Contact: Vicki Murray, at victoriaboschmurray@hotmail.com.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
Reading from new collection, The Ghosts of You and Me. Longfellow Books, Portland, ME.
7:00 p.m. Contact: Chris at 207-772-4045.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006
Reading from new collection, The Ghosts of You and Me. Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, NH.
7:00 p.m. Contact: Michael Hermann at 603-224-0562.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006
Luncheon reading for Dana Gioya and the NEA staff, Senator Collins, and the Maine Arts Council at the President's home, University of Maine, Orono, ME.
12:30 p.m. Contact: Kathy Shaw at Kathy.Shaw@maine.gov.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2006
Reading from new collection, The Ghosts of You and Me. Robinson Room, Colby College, Waterville, ME.
4:00 p.m. Contact: Pat Burdick, Special Collections, 872-3000.
FRIDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3-5 , 2006
"Celebrating the Spirit of Place: The Maine Literary Experience," sponsored by the midcoast branch of the American Association of University Women.
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.: Moderator of panel on contemporary Maine voices, featuring Monica Wood, Cathie Pelletier, Bill Roorbach, and Lewis Robinson.
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.: Reading poetry of place with Betsy Sholl, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME.
For more information, visit: http://www.maineliteraryfestival.com/
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006
Reading of poetry with Maxine Kumin in the Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, Library of Congress, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20540.
7:00 p.m. Contact: Patricia Gray at 202-707-5394.
View program for fall online beginning in October at http://www.loc.gov/poetry
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006
Discussion of two Maine anthologbies with students in Writers of Maine class at 11:00 a.m. in 406 Neville Hall.
Reading of poems from The Ghosts of You and Me in Maine Writers Series at 4:00 p.m. in 402 Neville Hall.
University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2006
Presentation (with Tess Gerritson, Monica Wood, et. al.) for author's roundtable at the Author's Booksale at The Center, Waterville, ME.
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2005
A reading by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program, Writers Almanac.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/01/17/.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2005
Reading and discussion of poems in the Morrill Room, Curtis Memorial Library at Midcoast Senior College. 12:15pm.
Contact: evirwin@clinic.net
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2005
Reading of poems in the Special Collections Room of Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine. 6:00pm.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2005
"Poems of Our Climate: The People and Places of Small-Town Maine." Great Falls Forum of the Lewiston Sun Journal.
Lepage Conference Center, Lewiston, Maine. Noon.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2005 - THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005
Reading of poems. March 2, 7:00pm.
Two class visits, March 3.
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH. Contact: Professor Ann Page Stecker at astecker@colby-sawyer.edu.
MARCH 18 - APRIL 15, 2005
Resident as Rockefeller Fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation
Lake Como, Italy. Telephone (with appropriate access code): 39-031-955-209.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005
Post-noon reading of poems.
Central Maine Community College, Turner Street, Auburn, Maine. Contact: Professor Lucy Coombs, lcoombs@cmcc.edu.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2005
Reading and classes as Visiting Poe - co-sponsored by The Frost Place of Franconia, NH.
Lisbon Regional High School, Lisbon, New Hampshire. Contact: Carlene Gadapee, chaucer@ncia.net.
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2005
Presentations in honor of Maxine Kumin's 80th birthday (with Donald Hall, Cleopatra Mathis, Cynthia Huntington).
Concord Public Library, Concord, NH. Contact Robbin Bailey, at 603-225-8670.
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005
Co-reading of poems to inaugurate Poetry in the Branches a training program for Maine librarians presented by the Maine Humanities Council and The Poets House of New York City (textbook, The Maine Poets).
Bangor Public Library, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Contact Lizz Sinclair at 773-5051.
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2005
Garden Party with book signing featuring 20 Maine writers, Richard Russo, Richard Ford, Jenny Boylan, Tess Gerritson, Monica Wood, Tracy Kidder, Susan Minot, et.al.
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boohtbay, 12 to 3 p.m. Contact Amy MacDonald at 781-5526.
Rain Date: Friday, July 29.
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2005
A reading by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program, Writers Almanac.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/08/15/.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2005
A reading by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program, Writers Almanac.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/08/22/#saturday.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005
Poetry workshop for the Lincoln Arts Festival.
Day-long session, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with break for lunch (lunch provide by the L.A.F.) Sprucewold Lodge, Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
Jean Webster, Chair of the L.A.F Poetry Workshop Committee, 207-633-6202. Email: Jrwopme@aol.com.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2005
Reading from anthology edited by Wesley McNair, Contemporary Maine Fiction, featuring Cathie Pelletier, Debra Spark and Monica Wood.
Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine, 7 pm.
Contact Chris, at 207-772-4045.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
Reading from anthology edited by Wesley McNair, Contemporary Maine Fiction, featuring Bill Roorbach and Elaine Ford.
Bookland, Brunswick, Maine, 7 pm.
Contact Bertha, at 725-2313.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
Introduction of Cathie Pelletier at the ceremony for the transfer of her archive at the Women Writers Collection room at the University of New England - Westbrook.
UNE, Westbrook, Maine, 7 pm.
Contact Caly Gurly, at 207-283-0171.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2005
Visiting poet to lead poetry workshop on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for New Works Faculty Retreat at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine.
Contact: Stu Kestenbaum, Director, at 207-348-2306. Email: haystack@haystack-mtn.org.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2005
A reading by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program, Writers Almanac.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/10/03/.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2005
Reading at the Cheshire Academy of Lifelong Learning, Keene State College, 9:30-10:50 a.m., October 7. Place TBA.
Contact: Patricia Fargnoli at Arielpf123@aol.com.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2005
Reading of A Place on Water, selected for the 2005 Community Reads Program of Belgrade, Fairfield, Waterville, Oakland, and Winslow. Co-readers are co-authors Robert Kimber and Bill Roorbach.
Belrade Community Center, 4:00pm.
Contact Marcia Haigh, Belgrade Public Library.belgrade@belgrade.lib.me.us.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2005
Reading and reception to launch fall issue of AGNI magazine, with Ha Jin, Mary Donaghue and Dana Levin. Boston University, Stone Science Building, 635 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B-50, Boston, MA. 7:30 pm.
Contact Bill Pierce, Senior Editor, at agni@bu.edu.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005
Reading from anthology edited by Wesley McNair, Contemporary Maine Fiction, featuring Debra Spark, Bill Roorback and Susan Kenney.
DDG Booksellers, Farmington, Maine, 7 pm.
Last update: September 19, 2005
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2005
Reading from anthology edited by Wesley McNair, Contemporary Maine Fiction, featuring Ellen Cooney, Susan Kenney, and Debra Spark.
Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers, Farmington, Maine, 7pm.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2005
Lecture and reading as Writer in Residence: "How I Became a Poet.".
University of Maine at Farmington, Honors House. 7 p.m.
Contact, Contact Professor Patricia O'Donnell: podonnel@maine.edu.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005
Conferences as Writer in Residence with five previously selected poetry writing students.
University of Maine at Farmington, Roberts Learning Center, Office 137. 1-5 p.m.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004
A reading by Garrison Keillor on his NPR program, Writers Almanac.
To read or listen to the online archive, please visit: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2004/12/27/.