FARMINGTON — Maine’s poet laureate, Emmy Award-winning writer Wesley McNair, will deliver the University of Maine at Farmington commencement address.

McNair, who is also a UMF professor emeritus and writer-in-residence, will speak at the 10:30 a.m. exercises behind the Olsen Student Center at the Saturday, May 12, commencement.

In 2011, Gov. Paul LePage appointed McNair to a five-year term as Maine poet laureate.

McNair has written nine volumes of poetry, has held grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations and earned an Emmy for scripts he wrote for a PBS series about Robert Frost. McNair has served four times on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. In 2006, he was selected for a United States Artists Fellowship as one of “America’s finest living artists.”

The university will award honorary degrees of doctor of humane letters to McNair and to Seth Wescott, American snowboarder and Olympic gold medalist.

Wescott, a U.S. Snowboarding team veteran raised in Farmington, has the only two snowboardcross Olympic gold medals ever awarded.

Merissa Beaulieu, graduating senior from Monmouth, will give the student address. The secondary education major was employed in the college admission office, was a varsity golfer and studied abroad in Krakow, Poland.

Beaulieu will return to Poland this summer to volunteer at Auschwitz Concentration Camp Education Center.

The outdoor ceremony is free and open to the public. In case of inclement weather, exercises will be inside the Fitness & Recreation Center, where admission will be limited to those with tickets for the center.