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SUMMARY:Maine Irish Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:In Honor of National Poetry Month and Seamus Heaney’s Birthday\nSaturday\, April 12th\n7:00pm\nJoin us for an evening of poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month\, and Seamus Heaney’s birthday! \nDoors open at 6:30 PM\, and readings begin at 7:00 PM. Admission is free\, and books will be available for purchase at the event through our wonderful partners\, Print: A Bookstore. Donations in support of the Maine Irish Heritage Center are welcome. A cash bar is available. \nOur featured poets are:\nKristen Case\nKristen Case has published essays on Henry David Thoreau\, Emily Dickinson\, Robert Frost\, Ezra Pound\, Wallace Stevens\, and William and Henry James\, and is the author of the book American Poetry and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House\, 2011). She is co-editor of  The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau (in development\, Oxford UP)\, William James and Literary Studies (forthcoming\, Cambridge UP)\, Thoreau in an Age of Crisis: Uses and Abuses of An American Icon (Fink\, 2021)\, 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the 19th Century Archive (Milkweed Editions\, 2019)\, and Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments (Cambridge UP\, 2016) .  Kristen’s first poetry collection\, Little Arias was published by New Issues Press in 2015. Her second collection\, Principles of Economics\, published by Switchback Books\, won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She is the recipient of the Maine Literary Award in Poetry (2016 and 2020)\, a MacDowell Fellowship\, and the UMF Trustee Professorship. She is Executive Director of the Monson Arts Seminar and Director of Thoreau’s Kalendar: A Digital Archive of the Phenological Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau. Her current book project is Keeping Time: Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar (forthcoming\, Milkweed Editions). She is Scholarship Research and Grants Manager at the Mitchell Institute\, Maine’s premier scholarship organization. \nLearn more at https://www.kristencase.com/ \n\n\n\nMaria Zoccola\nMaria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis\, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Sewanee Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere\, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Helen of Troy\, 1993 is her debut poetry collection. \nLearn more at https://mariazoccola.com/?page_id=379 \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONSOR\, COFFEE BY DESIGN!\n \nThanks to our Artist Sponsor\, the Hyatt Place hotel!
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LOCATION:Maine Irish Heritage Center\, 34 Gray St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
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