A Trio of Poets at the Blue Hill Library

Blue Hill, Maine - Three Maine poets, Beatrix Gates, Lee Sharkey, and Peter Harris will read from their recent works at the Blue Hill Public Library on Thursday, June 5th at 6:00 PM. Each has a new book of poetry to share with the audience. This reading is co-sponsored by the Library and Blue Hill Books.

Beatrix Gates’ new book of poems, Dos, was just published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry collections include In the Open, a Lambda finalist, and Ten Minutes. She has published in Tupelo Quarterly 3, Ploughshares, Bloom and The Kenyon Review.  A member of the Goddard College MFA faculty, Gates has taught at Colby, NYU, and Maine Maritime Academy. She lives in Brooksville, Maine.

Peter Harris’ new poetry collection is Freeing the Hook, Deerbrook Editions, 2013.  Harris is the author of Blue Hallelujahs, which won the MWPA Chapbook competition and he has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, Crab Orchard Review, Epoch, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Seattle Review, and Sewanee Review. He teaches American poetry and creative writing at Colby College and has taught at Marie Curie University in Lublin, Poland, and at University College Cork. He is a Zen Buddhist priest.

Lee Sharkey is the author of Calendars of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2013). Other books include A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid Press, 2008); To A Vanished World (Puckerbrush, 1995); and Farmwife (Puckerbrush Press, 1977). Her work has appeared in Consequence, Crazyhorse, FIELD, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, The Seattle Review, and other journals. An instructor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Maine at Farmington, she currently devotes her time to writing and co-editing the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the oldest and most respected literary magazines in the country.

Books will be available for sale and signing. For more information, call the Library at 374-5515.