October is Archives Month! To celebrate and raise awareness about UNE's Special Collections and archives, come join us for this year's Archival Portraits event! Just like last year, UNE Special Collections wants to take your picture! But we want to capture the contents of your bag or pockets. Just like every face is different, every pocket [...]
The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems: A Reading by Beatrix Gates
October 18, 2023
6:00 pm
Longfellow Books, Portland, ME
Free and open to the public. Join us for a reading from The Burning Key, New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) (Thera Books 2023) by Beatrix Gates, award-winning poet, book artist, and lesbian feminist publisher. Gates, founder of Granite Press (Penobscot, Maine, 1975-1989) and hopalong press (Monterey, Massachusetts, 1973-1975) will be in conversation with Jennifer Tuttle, director of the Maine [...]
This year's Donna Loring Lecture will be a reading by Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez October 5, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford CampusFree and open to the public; refreshments providedFree books available for UNE students with student ID (while supplies last)Event will be recorded as [...]
American Breakdown: A Conversation with Jennifer Lunden
September 28, 2023
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Online
View a recording of the event. This event will celebrate the publication of Lunden's book, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life (Harper Wave 2023), and will include a reading, facilitated conversation, and Q&A. American Breakdown is a Silent Spring for the human body. This wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery [...]
Join artist Rose Marasco for a reading and celebration of her new book At Home (OSMOS Books 2023), a memoir and meditation on the history of photography. Marasco is a key feminist voice among practitioners of vernacular photography and a widely exhibited photographer with works in many museum collections, who has also spent decades as a beloved and highly regarded teacher of photography. [...]
June 23-October 8, 2023 Opening reception: Friday, June 23, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Book event: Thursday, September 7, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Rose Marasco, a major voice in the world of contemporary photography, is celebrated in the solo exhibition “Rose Marasco: Camera Lucida” opening Friday, June 23 at the University of New England Art Gallery in [...]
On November 18, 2022, MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky gave a talk called A Day in the Life of Maine Women: Diaries of Everyday Life. From the event description: "The Maine Women Writers Collection has numerous diaries spanning the 19th and 20th century kept by Maine women across the state whose lives were remarkable in their [...]
Conversations from the Pointed Firs is a monthly audio series with Maine-connected authors and artists discussing new books and creative projects that invoke the spirit of Maine, its history, its ecology, its culture, and its contribution to community and quality of life. In October’s edition of Conversations from the Pointed Firs, host Peter Neill and [...]
Join us for an evening of stories discovered in archives with Dawn Potter (poet), Elizabeth DeWolfe (UNE history professor), and Carol Dana (Penobscot language master). Watch via Zoom, on the web, or on Facebook live. Dawn Potter is the author of nine books, most recently the poetry collection Accidental Hymn, forthcoming this spring. She directs poetry and [...]
A Poetry Reading Sponsored by the Maine Women Writers Collection. Join four Poet/Librarians in celebration of the union between poetry and libraries. Julia Bouwsma -- Library Director for Webster Library Margaret Yocom -- Founder of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive Emma Gibbon -- Adult Services Librarian, Topsham Public Library Jefferson Navicky – Archivist, Maine Women Writers Collection [...]
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