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 […]
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 […]
Libraries & The Poets Who Love Them
December 1, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Online
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 […]
Cathleen Miller, curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection, recently participated in the panel “Beyond Frost: Northern New England Poets in the Archives” at the New England Archivists Conference in Burlington, Vermont. Panelists discussed Frost’s dominance in the poetry of New England and explored how place imbues poets’ works, what has and has not been collected […]
A poem written by Jefferson Navicky, archivist for UNE’s Maine Women Writers Collection, was featured on Maine Public Radio’s February 8 episode of “Poems from Here.” Navicky was inspired to write the poem, titled “The Rare Book Publisher Gives a Talk,” in the fall of 2017 after taking a trip with other Maine Women Writers Collection […]
