About this Event
"I read Alive in These Woods in one sitting and then read it again. At times I felt like crying, at other others, like laughing, but always I was dumbstruck by Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s authenticity, her tenderness, her lyrical brilliance. Each poem is like a painting I want to hang above my desk, or an insight I want to frame. Whether reflecting on midlife, marital struggles, motherhood, encounters with hawks and butterflies, or the ache of loneliness, she is also writing about the fundamental questions of existence: how do we live, find meaning, and transform ourselves in the midst of our troubled lives?" --NIN ANDREWS
Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches at the 92nd Street Y and is Associate Editor-at-Large for Plume Poetry journal. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third book, Echolocation, was published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in March of 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award, a longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award and Runner Up for the Poetry By the Sea Best Book Award. Her fourth book, Alive in these Woods, will be published in September of 2026.
Betsy Sholl is the author of nine poetry collections including Otherwise Unseeable, Rough Cradle, Late Psalm, Don’t Explain, and The Red Line. A former poet laureate of Maine, Sholl teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Event venue & nearby stays
Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, United States
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