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Inspiration in the Archives: A Conversation about Poetry
May 8, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Maine Women Writers Collection
With poet and teacher Beth Alison Jones, & poet and archivist Jefferson Navicky
Facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Tuttle, Director of the Maine Women Writers Collection
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FMI, please contact MWWC Curator Sarah Baker ([email protected])
Join us for an evening of poetry sprung from research in the Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC). Beth Alison Jones will read from an in-progress series of poems called “We Don’t Talk About the War.” Inspired by the journals of Isabel Hoffses, a 19th century school teacher who suffered bouts of homelessness, poverty, and a debilitating mental illness, the poems explore a powerful and singular mentality will that insists on its own freedom. The Civil War is the unmentioned backdrop.
MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky will read poems inspired by his work at MWWC processing archival collections, assisting researchers, and communing with ghosts and other spirits that haunt the past’s detritus.
The evening will be introduced and moderated by Dr. Jennifer Tuttle, MWWC Director & Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature at UNE.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of New England, Abplanalp Library, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04103