LEWISTON — Language Arts Live, the annual series of author readings at Bates College, will feature essayist and award-winning poet Marianne Boruch on Monday, Sept. 27.

Featuring highly regarded writers reading from and discussing their work, Language Arts Live events are open to the public at no cost.

“Boruch’s superb instinct for the structure of free verse and her fine eye for daily life have won her national respect,” wrote Publishers Weekly. “Few readers will come away unimpressed by the supple care Boruch takes in depicting her everyday scenes.”

Boruch has won awards for her six collections of poetry, of which the most recent is “Grace, Fallen From.” Her poems have been featured in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Poetry London and other publications.

She graduated from the masters program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published two books of essays, the most recent being “Poetry’s Old Air” (University of Michigan Press, 1995). Her poems and prose have appeared in collections such as “Poets of the New Century,” “The Best American Poetry, 2009” and the “Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry.”

Boruch has taught at the University of Maine Farmington and Warren Wilson College. She currently teaches English and directs the masters writing program at Purdue University.

The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.

The series will resume on Oct. 11 with novelist Debra Sparks.

For more information, contact 786-6326 or 786-6256, or e-mail [email protected] or [email protected].