Please join MWPA and Kelly’s Books to Go to celebrate the re-launch of the Maine Chapbook Series and this year’s winning chapbook of poems, Bright Glint Gone, by Suzanne Langlois. Langlois will read with award-winning poets Martha Collins and Adrian Blevins. Collins chose Bright Glint Gone as the winner of the chapbook series.
To RSVP for this free event and receive a link to the event on Zoom, please go here.
To order a copy of Bright Glint Gone, or one of Martha Collins’ or Adrian Blevin’s books please visit Kelly’s Books to Go. Signed copies will be available as supplies last.
Suzanne Langlois’s poems have appeared in The Maine Review, NAILED Magazine, Cider Press Review, The Fourth River, Off The Coast, Rattle, and on the Button Poetry channel. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Independent Best American Poetry, and the Pushcart Prize. She holds a BA in English from Tufts University, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is currently an MFA candidate at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Portland and teaches high school English in Falmouth, Maine.
Martha Collins’s most recent book of poetry, Because What Else Could I Do (Pitt, 2019), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams award. She has also published nine earlier volumes of poetry, including Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018) and Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016), as well four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry. Founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston, she served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin for ten years.
Adrian Blevins is the author of Appalachians Run Amok, winner of the Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize, Live from the Homesick Jamboree and The Brass Girl Brouhaha; the chapbooks Bloodline and The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes; and a co-edited collection of essays, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including a Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, among many others. She teaches at Colby College.