Longfellow Writer’s Workshop returns to UMF this year in the form of the Longfellow Young Writers Camp, which will be a week long camp for young writers to learn to hone their craft.
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Bombshell book alleges a Vatican gay subculture, hypocrisy
A gay French writer has lifted the lid on what he calls one of the world’s largest gay communities — the Vatican.
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Clarice Katz Aronowitz
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — “May you stay forever young.” Claire passed peacefully in Delray Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 25, after a seven-month illness at the age of 92. She was born to Isadore and Minnie Katz in Brooklyn, N.Y. She lived her early years in Brooklyn, attended Manual Training High School and met and married Martin […]
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Former Maine newspaper writer and editor Nancy Grape dies
Nancy Grape, an Auburn native who worked for both the Sun Journal and Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as a writer and columnist, died Wednesday in Redwood City, California. She was 84. She was born at Central Maine General Hospital, now Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston in 1933, graduating from Edward Little High School […]
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Paul Baribault: A writer's life
Almost from the very beginning, Paul Baribault knew what he wanted to do with his life. And so, with big dreams dancing in his head, he announced his plans to his high school guidance counselor. It could have gone better. “I said, ‘I’m going to be a writer,’” Baribault recalls of that long ago conversation. […]
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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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Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. “I’m […]