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Write ME Epistolary Poetry Workshop with Wesley McNair

  • Skowhegan Public Library 9 Elm Street Skowhegan, ME United States (map)

An In-Person Poetry Workshop

As part of the Write ME project, poet Wesley McNair will lead a free epistolary poetry workshop. Please register by clicking on the button below.

In this workshop, participants will choose one of five letter-poems as an inspiration for writing their own in-class poem to a friend, a family member, a stranger, or an object of affection. Likely authors of model poems are Donald Hall, Lucille Clifton, Hayden Carruth, Marcus Wicker, and Emily Dickinson.

Wesley McNair is a former Maine Poet Laureate who has won many awards for his work and published more than 25 collections of poetry and prose, most recently Late Wonders: New & Selected Poetry.


Earlier Event: November 6
The Poetry of Practice: Making Space for Poems
Later Event: November 7
Write ME Epistolary Poetry Workshop with Mihku Paul