Poet and writer Danielle Pafunda reads in the fourth event of the fall New Writing Series. Pafunda is the author, most recently, of The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (2017). She is visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UMaine this academic year.
The New Writing Series features three members of the creative writing faculty at UMaine in a special event, the first of two, designed to showcase the literary talent in our midst. Fiction writers Meghan Dowling and Jeremy Parker will be joined by playwright and poet William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. for a reading that is free and open to the public.
Poet Kate Colby makes her first appearance in the New Writing Series. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, The Arrangements.
The New Writing Series features three members of the creative writing faculty at UMaine in a special event, the second of two, designed to showcase the literary talent in our midst. Poets Joanna (Jody) Crouse, Kathleen Ellis, and Leonore Hildebrandt will read from their work in the final event of the fall NWS.
Poet, editor, and activist Lynn Melnick reads in the New Writing Series, cosponsored by the English Department and the Center for Poetry and Poetics (formerly the National Poetry Foundation). Free and open to the public.
The first meeting of the new academic year. Full-time faculty are expected to attend; part-time faculty and graduate students are welcome but not required to attend.
Fiction writer Sarah Rose Etter reads from and discusses her work in the first event of the fall 2019 New Writing Series.
The New Writing Series, now celebrating its 20th anniversary season, welcomes poets Sara Nicholson and Sarah Green to campus for a reading and discussion of their work hosted by Jennifer Moxley.
The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a question and answer session.
Fiction writer and new UMaine faculty member Hollie Adams reads from and discusses her work.
Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza, who has lived and taught in the US since 1989, reads from and discusses her work in an event that is free and open to the public.
