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Author reading latest work at Farmington book shop

FARMINGTON — Jeffrey Thomson, award-winning poet and author, is celebrating the launch of his new book, “The Belfast Notebooks” with a reading and signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, at Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers. The event is free and open to the public. “The Belfast Notebooks” traces a poet’s journey deep into a […]

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Nonfiction writer, professor reads from new book at UMF Visiting Writer Series

FARMINGTON — Nonfiction writer and professor David Gessner read excerpts from his new book Thursday evening in the Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writer Series. UMF Professor of Creative Writing Jeffrey Thomson, who also runs the Visiting Writer Series, said that he had been trying to get Gessner to UMF […]

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UMF professor awarded prestigious fellowship

FARMINGTON — Jeffrey Thomson, University of Maine at Farmington associate professor of creative writing, has been awarded the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship for 2014-15 by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. This distinguished fellowship is a collaboration between the Starr Center at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and the […]