Poetry Reading – Sunday Oct. 18 at 7:30
Two nationally known poets
Tony Hoagland and Peter Harris
Two well-known poets, Tony Hoagland and Peter Harris, will read from their works at River Arts on Sunday, October 18 at 7:30pm, located at 170 Main Street, Damariscotta. Admission is free, donations welcomed.
Tony Hoagland’s most recent collections of poems are What Narcissism Means To Me, from Graywolf Press, and Little Oceans, from Hollyridge Press; Sweet Ruin won the Brittingham Prize.. His next book, Unincorporated Persons In The Late Honda Dynasty, will be published by Graywolf in January 2010. He’s received many awards for writing, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the OB Hardisson Award, the Mark Twain Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson low residency program. His poetry has been featured on NPR as part of Writer’s Almanac, a daily feature hosted by Garrison Keillor,
Peter Harris, poet, and critic. His Blue Halleujas won the 1996 Maine Chapbook Competition. Poems and translations published in national literary magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, The Atlanta Review, The Literary Review and College English; he is editor of the Poetry Chronicle and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
He teaches English Composition at Colby College, with a service-learning component which involves students in local public schools, 19th-century American Literature and Contemporary American Poetry. He also leads workshops in his current main interest, writing poetry.
Admission is free; donations are always welcomed. River Arts is located at 170 Main Street, Damariscotta. For more information about this and other events there, visit www.riverartsme.org or call 563-1507.
