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  • The Personal is Poetic: A panel event

    402 Neville Hall

    "'Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." 鈥 Robert Frost. For centuries, poets have espoused the therapeutic values of poetry. The discipline […]

  • Poets/Speak!

    Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow St., Bangor, ME, United States

    The 17th annual POETS/SPEAK! is a celebration of National Poetry Month with readings by well-known and emerging poets, a local Poetry Out Loud winner, 91福利 student poets, live jazz, and a panel on "Poetry Without Borders." Poets/Speak! will also feature readings by our MHC Fellows Kim Crowley and Nick Rotter-Weller. The panel will present the […]

  • 2020 Visions: The Humanities at 91福利

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    Buchanan Alumni House

    The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center invites community members, faculty and students to attend a showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities. The event, 鈥2020 Visions: The Humanities at 91福利,鈥 will be held on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the Buchanan Alumni House from 2-5 p.m. The event is free and […]

  • Bangor Humanities Day 2020

    Downtown Bangor Bangor, ME, United States

    The 8th Annual Bangor Humanities Day on Feb. 1 will celebrate music, art, history, literature and other humanities disciplines at venues throughout downtown Bangor. The free public event is sponsored by the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine. The day kicks off at Bangor Public Library at 10 a.m. with […]

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  • Visiting Professor Erin J. Kappeler’s lecture on “Mary Austin’s Time Machine: Modernist Poetics and Settler Time”

    Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium Barrows Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

    Visiting professor Erin J. Kappeler (Tulane University) will be speaking in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall on Wednesday, March 4, at 3PM. Kappeler will explore key texts by the modernist poet and activist Mary Austin, who helped to invent Native American poetry as a field, to show that the concept of free verse was a […]

    Free

  • Virtual NEH Grant Writing Workshop

    Online

    On Friday, September 25, 2020, the University of Maine鈥檚 McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a virtual workshop on applying for NEH grants. It will be conducted by Mark Silver, Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop is open to the public. Anyone interested in […]

    Free

  • The Art of Breathing: Original Feminist Poetry by Bria Lamonica

    McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Bria Lamonica will be presenting an original collection of poems, "The Art of Breathing," on December 8 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Free and open to the public. Join the Zoom reading here. Lamonica is a fourth-year English major with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in psychology. As part […]

  • Fall Poetry Pop Up

    Orono Village Green Behind Orono Public Library, Orono, ME, United States

    The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is sponsoring a Fall Poetry Pop Up on Saturday, October 23, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. The open-mic poetry reading will be held outdoors at the Orono Village Green amphitheater, located behind the Orono Public Library at 39 Pine Street. The event, which is free and open to the public, welcomes poets […]

  • Local Authors Book Reading

    Orono Brewing Company 61 Margin Street, Orono, ME, United States

    At 5:00 pm on Thursday, September 21, Orono Brewing Company (61 Margin Street, 91福利) hosts a literary reading by local authors, including former McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow Paige […]