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15th Annual POETS/SPEAK!*

Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow St., Bangor, ME, United States

The 15th Annual POETS/SPEAK! event on Thursday, April 27 at the Bangor Public Library in celebration of National Poetry Month. Our 15th anniversary event celebrates “Origins: Roots & Sources” in conjunction with the library’s month-long Smithsonian exhibit on “Human Origins.” Festivities open with a performance from Dear Darwin followed by readings by LEONORE HILDEBRANDT, SIMIN KHOSRAVANI, CARL LITTLE, STEFANIA IRENE […]

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Celebrating the Poetry of John Ashbery

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on “Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age” this Thursday at 4:30pm in Stewart Commons 104. While still a graduate student in 1996, Professor Epstein presented a paper on Frank O’Hara and film in the […]

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New Native Tribal Plays with Madeline Sayet*

Penobscot Theatre 51 Main St., Bangor, ME, United States

Tan Katotsanin "how strong are you?" presents New Native Tribal Plays directed by Madeline Sayet at the Penobscot Theatre Company's Rehearsal Hall, 51 Maine St. Bangor.  Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan playwright, director, and Shakespeare scholar. She is visiting and conducting workshops with students and local playwrights in the Penobscot community as well as directing the […]

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Recurring

New Native Tribal Plays with Madeline Sayet*

Penobscot Theatre 51 Main St., Bangor, ME, United States

Tan Katotsanin "how strong are you?" presents New Native Tribal Plays directed by Madeline Sayet at the Penobscot Theatre Company's Rehearsal Hall, 51 Maine St. Bangor.  Madeline Sayet is a Mohegan playwright, director, and Shakespeare scholar. She is visiting and conducting workshops with students and local playwrights in the Penobscot community as well as directing the […]

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New Writing Series: poetry reading by Allison Cobb

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

Poetry reading by Allison Cobb. Introduced by Benjamin Friedlander. About Cobb from her website: "Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood, originally published by Factory School with a new edition forthcoming in 2018 from Nightboat Books. After We All Died is a finalist for the National Poetry Series and […]

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Poets/Speak!

Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow St., Bangor, ME, United States

The 17th annual POETS/SPEAK! is a celebration of National Poetry Month with readings by well-known and emerging poets, a local Poetry Out Loud winner, UMaine student poets, live jazz, and a panel on "Poetry Without Borders." Poets/Speak! will also feature readings by our MHC Fellows Kim Crowley and Nick Rotter-Weller. The panel will present the […]

“De-colonization is not a reality show” a one-person performance by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.

Lord Hall, room 100

“De-colonization is not a reality show” a one-person performance/first draft written by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. directed by visiting Libra Professor Madeline Sayet Wednesday, October 16, 6:00 p.m. Lord Hall, Room 100 Free and open to the public Co-sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, the UMaine Department of Art, and the UMaine Department of English

New Writing Series: Suzette Mayr

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On Thursday, March 30 at 4:30 pm, the UMaine Department of English New Writing Series presents a reading and Q&A by award-winning novelist Suzette Mayr in the Allen 54′ and Sally 55′ Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment of the IMRC. Suzette Mayr is the author of six novels including her most recent, The Sleeping […]

The Rule: A Critical and Creative Presentation

Stewart Commons IMRC Stewart Commons, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

On Wednesday, April 19 at 4:30 pm in the IMRC, outgoing MHC Undergraduate Fellow Paige McHatten will present the results of her Fellowship project with a talk and creative writing titled "The […]

I Saw What You Did Podcast – Stephen King Double Feature

Allen and Sally Fernald AP/PE Space Stewart Commons IMRC, UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

Join us on Thursday October 19 from 3:30-5:30 at IMRC 104 (The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment) for a public discussion of two films based on Stephen King novels—Pet Sematary (1989) and Misery (1990). Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson, hosts of the film podcast I Saw What You Did, will talk us through […]

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