Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar 2

Looking to add some creativity to your day? Want to meet other local writers and get started on some new writing? Join our Seaport Free Writes session on Wednesday, February 16th, from 12:30-1:15pm. You’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some fresh writing exercises. Best of all, you’ll leave with some new ideas to ponder for the rest of your day and beyond. Please note that you must register ahead of time and provide proof of vaccination to attend this session.

Looking for some virtual mid-week writing community? Or do you have a little time during your lunch break for a chat and guided writing? Join our FREE Grubby Desk Lunch Series live via easy to use video conferencing. Join us on Wednesday, February 16th from 12:30pm-1:15pm. For 45 minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some cool writing exercises. Best of all, you’ll sign off with some new ideas to ponder for the rest of your day and beyond. Please make sure to register ahead so we can email you a link to join! You can expect an email on February 16th around 12:15pm.

Meghan Lamb is the author of Failure to Thrive (Apocalypse Party, 2021), All of Your Most Private Places (Spork Press, 2019) and Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, 2017). She has taught writing courses at Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Chicago, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Washington University in St. Louis, and she served as the 2018 Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. Her work has appeared in Quarterly West, DIAGRAM, Redivider, Passages North, The Rumpus, and The Collagist, among other publications. She is currently the Nonfiction Editor of Nat. Brut, a journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields.

The town of Brunswick, Maine, and the Curtis Memorial Library host a celebration of  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with The Coursen Readings, four consecutive Sundays in February. Join Slate Roof member Audrey Gidman with poets Jane Costlow and David Sloan for the third event. The readings are part of Brunswick's month-long celebration honoring Longfellow, Maine filmmaker John Ford, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, leading up to Maine's Bicentennial.

For more information: 207-725-5242 or http://www.curtislibrary.com