In his latest book ‘Second Chances,’ Craig Grossi writes about his and Fred’s work with inmates at Maine State Prison.
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Bates graduate provides artwork for new children’s book with Memorial Day focus
Maine artist Matt Tavares illustrated a picture book about guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Devaney, Doak & Garrett celebrates 30 years in Farmington
Owner Kenny Brechner looks back on DD&G’s three decades of book sales, community support, literacy outreach, and spreading a “core mission to share our love of reading.”
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Annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival presents a hybrid event of visual and literary arts
The annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity. The Plunkett Festival will partner with the UMA Danforth Gallery to provide a virtual […]
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Lovell’s Meet The Author series welcomes novelist Jim Nichols
Celebrated Maine author Jim Nichols will give an online presentation from 7-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, hosted by the Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell. To join this free Zoom event, visit the library website at www.hobbslibrary.org and click on the Zoom link by 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 29. Nichols is the 2014 […]
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‘Lucky’ book signing planned in Lewiston
Event part of fundraising efforts for Christy Gardner’s service dog program, Mission Working Dogs
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Rumford’s Tom Fallon publishes new book ‘Creation Now With Words’
RUMFORD — Rumford author, editor and poet Tom Fallon has published a new book, “Creation Now With Words,” that in his own words “injects an avant-garde direction into the Maine literary scene.” Fallon, an octogenarian and former millworker, is well known in Maine literary circles for his experimentation with words. “Creation Now With Words” is […]
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Mainers challenge themselves to reading goals during the pandemic
A 9-year-old who has read some 250 books and a book club that tackled ‘War and Peace’ are among those filling their downtime with reading.
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New Commons Project features programs focused on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
University of Maine at Farmington