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Chaucer's Books will host poet and local author David Starkey for an in-store book talk and signing of his novel "Poor Ghost" (Keylight Books/Turner

FARMINGTON - The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series is excited to present current poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Diannely Antigua, as the popular program’s fourth reader of the 2023/24 season. Antigua will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 7, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student

Professor of English and acclaimed author, V. Penelope Pelizzon, celebrated the release of her collection of poems,: “A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye,” with a poetry reading sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Barnes & Noble Bookstore. Taking place on Thursday, Feb. 22, Pelizzon exclaimed that the collection is “fresh off…

The author of 'The Empathy Exams' and 'Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story' on Danez Smith, 'Thirst for Salt,' and the Book That She Always Recommends.

Villanova University's College for Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome scholars from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast for a week of workshops and community events this March.

The annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival returns to East Central University April 4-6, 2024, marking the 19th festival to take place.

The other day I opened my inbox to find a request from an old friend, Eastern Washington University. More specifically it was the Creative Writing...

Join a poetry reading and book signing with award-winning poet Major Jackson on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Seating is limited, so register early.

Chappell grew up in the mill town of Canton in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. In a documentary about his life, “Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever,” he said he carried the mountains with him whenever he went. He spent most of his career in Greensboro, writing and teaching in the graduate-level creative writing program he helped build.

This weeks obituaries include Lanalee (Cissy) Lewis, Elisabeth (Betty Lou) Nordman, Kenneth W. Fields, Katherine "Kay" B. Philips, Cynthia Dillon, Carol E. Reade, Fayne C. Murphy, Robert E. McLean and Dorothy H. Forsythe.