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2025 Events
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In celebration of Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention, experience the words of three Maine poets Julia Bouwsma, author of Death Fluorescence (Sundress Publications, July 2025), Samaa Abdurraqib, author of Towards a Retreat (Diode Editions, August 2025), and Maya Williams, author of Feminine Morbidity (The Headlight Review, October 2025).
Past Events
Poetry Reading with Samaa Abdurraqib (to celebrate the new book Towards a Retreat) along with Maine Literary Book Award Winner Jefferson Navicky. Reading, book signing, Q&A, and refreshments.
Open to writers in all genres, this unique field trip and workshop combination, led by Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma and certified Maine Master Naturalist and poet Samaa Abdurraqib, will provide participants with a chance to practice careful observation of the natural world and then to develop those observations on the page.
Author talk at Webster Library with Samaa Abdurraqib and Jennifer Lunden, author of the 2025 READMe nonfiction selection, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life.
Open to writers in all genres, this unique field trip and workshop combination, led by Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma and certified Maine Master Naturalist and poet Samaa Abdurraqib, will provide participants with a chance to practice careful observation of the natural world and then to develop those observations on the page.
Come celebrate the launch of Truro-based poet Elizabeth Bradfield’s newest collection of poems: SOFAR, from Persea Books, and Maine-based poet Samaa Abdurraqib’s debut chapbook, Towards a Retreat, from Diode Editions. The two poets are friends and collaborators; they will read from their work, chat briefly, and happily sign books.