Hear selections of their work read aloud by local poets and authors:

Sylvia Godreaux
S.O. Godreaux (G’d-row) is a poet, a freelance illustrator, and a craft enthusiast. Currently, they work at a state park, but their true mission in life is to become one of the fancy little kittens in a Beatrix Potter book.

C.S. Packard
Christopher Packard is the author of Mythical Creatures of Maine and a full-time high school science teacher at Bangor High School. He is also a trail runner, swordfighter, storyteller, and outdoor adventurer. When not teaching, writing, or wandering in the wilds he can often be found on his small homestead in Hampden, Maine gardening, raising chickens, and spending time with his wife and two sons. Prior to taking up teaching and writing he worked as an ecological restoration technician, field biologist, naturalist, and outdoor educator. He has earned some pieces of paper that say things about degrees in biology and education. But most of his learning has come from his passion for discovery and his drive to bring people together. 

Jennifer Moxley
Though she’s lived in Maine since 1999, she was born and raised in San Diego, California. She studied literature and writing at UC San Diego, University of Rhode Island, and Brown University (MFA 1994). Her poems have been included in two Norton Anthologies, Postmodern American Poetry and American Hybrid. Her book The Sense Record (2002) was picked as one of the five best poetry books of the year by both Stride magazine (UK) and Small Press Traffic (US). Her poem “Behind the Orbits” was included by Robert Creeley in The Best American Poetry 2002. In 2005, she was granted the Lynda Hull Poetry Award from Denver Quarterly, and in 2015, her book The Open Secret was awarded the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She teaches Poetry and Poetics at the University of Maine.

Hollie Adams
Hollie Adams, originally from Windsor, Ontario, now lives in Bangor, Maine, teaching Creative Writing and Canadian Literature at the University of Maine. She studied at the University of Windsor and holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Hollie is the author of the novel Things You’ve Inherited From Your Mother (NeWest Press, 2015), and her first collection of poetry is forthcoming from Guernica Editions. She has served as the fiction editor of The Windsor Review and as Resident Artist at Acadia National Park. Her poetry and prose have been published in magazines and anthologies including Geist, The New Quarterly, Room, Carousel, Contemporary Verse 2, Best Canadian Poetry, and Best Canadian Essays.


Facilitated by Queen City Scribes

Saturday, June 27th, 4:00-5:00pm
Keith Anderson Community House
19 Bennoch Rd. Orono, ME