Join us for an intimate reading with two Maine poets!
Michelle Menting is a resident of Whitefield. She teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Southern Maine, and directs Gibbs Library in Washington, Maine. She is the author of three poetry collections and her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Passages North, Cincinnati Review, diagram, One Art, and other magazines and anthologies. Michelle holds a PhD from the University of Nebraska, an MFA and MA from Northern Michigan University, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
Jefferson Navicky was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeastern Ohio. He earned his MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), a Finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021) won the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry.