WASHINGTON — Gibbs Library is set to present a National Poetry Month event at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20, in the Bryant Room at 40 Old Union Road.
Award-winning Maine poets Jefferson Navicky and Dawn Potter will read their poems and discuss their craft. A brief Q&A and book signing will follow the reading. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Navicky is the author of four books, most recently the novel-in-prose-poems, “Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands,” as well as “Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose,” which won the 2022 Maine Literary Award for Poetry.
He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Potter’s most recent book is the poetry collection “Accidental Hymn.” A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has also won a Maine Literary Award in nonfiction. Her poems and essays appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review, and many other journals.
Potter directs poetry and teaching programs at Monson Arts and lives in Portland.
For more information, call 207-845-2663, email [email protected], visit gibbslibrary.org.
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