Mass Hall Faculty Room

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Poet Gibson Fay-Leblanc, author of the collection Deke Dangle Dive will read from his work. Fay-Leblanc’s first collection, Death of a Ventriloquist, was the recipient of the Vassar Miller Prize, and his work has appeared The New Republic, Tin House, FIELD, Poetry Northwest, Orion, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, Publishers Weekly, Slice, and elsewhere.

Fay-Leblanc served as the City of Portland’s fifth Poet Laureate and has been involved with local community arts organizations including The Telling Room, SPACE Gallery, and the Hewnoaks Artist Colony. He is the current executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

This free public event is sponsored by the Alpha Delta Phi Society.  

Denmark Arts Center hosts Maine poets Gibson Fay-Leblanc, Katherine Hagopian Berry and Meghan Sterling for a reading from their recent collections Deke Dangle Dive, Orbit and Landtrust, View From a Borrowed Field and Comfort the Mourners, respectively. Please join us for a thrilling evening of poetry! 

The Rangeley Public Library hosts the 16th annual Hugh Ogden Memorial Reading. Members of the Ogden Family will share a few of Hugh’s poems, and Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will be the featured poet.

Join us for a reading of selected works by poets Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, John Perrault, Betsy Scholl, and Estha Weiner in the Longfellow Garden. Following the reading, we invite you to stay a while for the First Friday Art Walk and visit CODE RED, MHS’s major exhibition examining topics around the climate and biodiversity, and Selections From the Collections, an exhibit spotlighting artifacts which resonate with MHS staff.

Gibson reads and talks at the University of Maine at Farmington as part of their Visiting Writers Series. Details TBA.