And we’re celebrating with haiku! Take a moment out of your day to write a simple verse or two. As a reminder, a haiku consists of three lines of verse with five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Stations are set up in the libraries for you to use if you wish. Here are some […]
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Archives Month!
Archives Month Fun
October 31, 2024
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Ketchum Library
Did you know that October is American Archives Month? Stop by Ketchum Library for snacks and fun archives-themed activities! Thursday, October 31, 202411 a.m. – 2 p.m. Come meet your friendly UNE archivists!
Donna M. Loring Lecture
A Salute to Cpt. Joanne Murphy and the Women Who Served in Vietnam
October 1, 2024
12:00 pm
Bush Center Boardroom, UNE Biddeford Campus
Captain Joanne P. Murphy was Donna Loring’s Commanding Officer while they served together
Inspiration in the Archives
Inspiration in the Archives: A Conversation about Poetry
May 8, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Maine Women Writers Collection
With poet and teacher Beth Alison Jones, & poet and archivist Jefferson Navicky Facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Tuttle, Director of the Maine Women Writers CollectionFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FMI, please contact MWWC Curator Sarah Baker Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC). Beth […]
Archival Portraits 2023
Archival Portraits
October 31, 2023
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Ketchum Library, Biddeford
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 […]
Back Then and Now: Pettengill Farm in History and Art
Back Then and Now: Pettengill Farm in History and Art
November 5, 2023
3:00 pm
Meetinghouse Arts, 40 Main St., Freeport, ME
Please join us for a community discussion with artists Rebecca Goodale and Carrie Scanga as they talk about their collaborative artists’ book, “Back Then And Now,” which imagines Freeport’s Pettengill Farm. A representative of the Freeport Historical Society will also be on hand to speak about the 19th century salt-water farm. Audience participation encouraged. Sponsored by the Maine Women […]
The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems: A Reading by Beatrix Gates
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 […]
Donna Loring Lecture
Reading by Morgan Talty
October 5, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, Biddeford
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
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 […]
At Home: A Reading by Rose Marasco
At Home: A Reading by Rose Marasco
September 14, 2023
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Portland Campus Art Gallery
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. […]