New Writing Series Events to Date: 2021-Present
Due to the Covid-19 lockdown the New Writing Series went on hiatus from March 15, 2020 until September 30, 2021. In fall of 2021 we crept back with limited, local and Zoom programming. From this point forward the New Writing Series concentrated its events in the fall of each year.
Fall 2021
9/30 UMaine Creative Writing Faculty Reading: Hollie Adams, Gregory Howard, & Jennifer Moxley
10/14 Zoom: Millay Poetry Prize judge Kathleen Ossip with winner Paul Eaton
10/28 The Agony of Time: A Remembrance of Marie Uguay (bilingual reading in French and English)
11/4 Katie Lattari & Morgan Talty
Spring 2022
4/29 Zoom: Millay Prize judge Rae Armantrout with winners Adam Ray Wagner and Christopher Thomas
Fall 2024
9/26 Carlos Villacorta translated by Chelsea Johanson
10/10 Keith Rosson
10/17 Rod Moody-Corbett
10/24 Babak Lakghomi
11/14 Dawn Lundy Martin
11/21 Millay Prize judge Daisy Fried with winners Will Lathrop, Miracle Gant, and April Messier
Spring 2025
3/27 Grady Award Winners (Katherine Churchill-King, Carrigan Cyr, Mo Drammeh, Chantelle Flores, Miracle Gant, Jacqueline Knirnschild, William Lathrop, Lu Markovitch)
Fall 2025
9/25 Eleni Sikelianos
10/15 StarWound Band and student poets (Grace Teague, Gabriella Shetreet, Kasey Howell, Rhiannon McCutcheon, Gabbie Needham)
11/6 Katie Jean Shinkle and Stephen Dunn
11/10 Karina Pacheco
11/13 Lincoln Michel
11/20 Millay Prize judge Anselm Berrigan with winners (Alden Mason, Jed Bothe, Elanor Spring)
12/4 Theresa Okokon