FARMINGTON — Four poets will give a reading about Maine seasons on Wednesday, Sept. 22, at the Farmington Public Library.
Each of the participating poets has poems from a different season in “Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year,” an anthology edited by Wesley McNair, and will read poetry about that season.
Robert Seigel will represent spring; Carl Little, summer; Robert Kimber, reading poems by Ted Enslin, fall; and Wesley McNair, winter.
“Maine in Four Seasons” includes not only contemporary poets from around the state, but a range of Maine’s earlier poets, from Longfellow to Robinson to Millay.
The readers will sample some of the earlier work together with their own.
Siegel is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, most recently “A Pentecost of Finches: New and Selected Poems” and “The Waters Under the Earth.” His fiction includes the “Whalesong” trilogy. He directed the graduate creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Poems by Little, author of “Ocean Drinker: New and Selected Poems,” have appeared in Off the Coast, the Maine Times and Puckerbrush Review. “Ten Tourists Visit Baker’s Island, ca. 1900” won the 2002 Friends of Acadia poetry competition. His latest book is “The Art of Dahlov Ipcar.” He lives on Mount Desert Island.
Enslin, who is unable to attend the reading, is Maine’s most senior poet and author of a number of poetry books and chapbooks, most recently “Then and Now: Selected Poems,” “In Tandem” and “Nine.” Kimber, who became acquainted with the poet during the 1970s, when Enslin resided in Temple, is a well-known author of books and articles about rural life and the natural world.
McNair has won several awards for his poetry and has published several books of poetry, most recently “Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems.” “Maine in Four Seasons” is his fifth anthology of Maine writing.
The 7 p.m. reading from “Maine in Four Seasons” will be followed by a group book signing and reception. For more information, contact DDG Booksellers, 193 Broadway at 778-3454 or e-mail info@ddgbooks.com.
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