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UMF to present Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo

FARMINGTON — The Creative Writing Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine at Farmington presents Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo as part of its Visiting Writers Series for 2018-2019. Russo will be the second author featured in the 30th anniversary of the Visiting Writers Series. He will read from selected works at 7:30 […]

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Poet Ross Gay to appear at UMF

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Visiting Writers Series is presenting its final guest author for the year. Award-winning poet Ross Gay will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 19, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public, to be followed by […]

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Bates, UMF presenting author Ottessa Moshfegh

Award-winning American author Ottessa Moshfegh will read from and discuss her works at Bates College, Wednesday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Muskie Archives and at the University of Maine at Farmington, Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. and The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New […]

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UMF to host poet Kaveh Akbar

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington will host poet Kaveh Akbar as the next reader in its Visiting Writers Series. Sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, the reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, in the Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is […]

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‘Superstorm’ author to read at UMF

FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington will present nonfiction environmental author Kathryn Miles as the next reader in its celebrated Visiting Writers Series. Miles will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public […]