Waterville Public Library

Maine Poetry Express Waterville!

The Maine Poetry Express is returning to Waterville, ME!  

All Mid-Maine poets welcome aboard for the 
2014 Maine PoetryExpress Waterville!

Three poets from five division categories will have poems selected for reading at the Maine Poetry Express Waterville stop on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 6-7:30pm. The 2014 Maine Poetry Express Waterville event will take place at the Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water Street, Waterville, ME 04901. Maine Poet Laureate Wes McNair will be our honored guest. The division categories are grades 3-5, grades 6-8, grades 9-12, college and adult.

The Maine Poetry Express is an initiative of Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair, and supported by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. The intent of the program is to celebrate flourishes of poetry in communities all around Maine. Mr. McNair will be our honored guest at the Maine Poetry Express Waterville community poetry celebration on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 6p-7:30p.

The purpose of the Maine Poetry Express Waterville poetry contest and event is to shine a light of awareness on poetry in the Mid-Maine region, to come together as a diverse community to celebrate poetic thoughts, and to bring recognition to our area poets of all ages.

The 2014 Maine Poetry Express Waterville organizers are Colby College Special Collections, Colby College Farnham Writers’ Center, Waterville High School, Waterville Main Street, and the Waterville Public Library.

FMI: https://www.facebook.com/mainepoetryexpresswaterville. 

-Posted on April 5, 2014