Three Poets at LPL

Three Poets at LPL


Lewiston, Maine - The Lewiston Public Library is partnering with LA Arts to present The Poet as Art, a public poetry series.  The first event will take place this Tuesday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m in the Library's Callahan Hall with three Maine poets reading from their work and discussing their writing processes.

The featured poets in this free public reading are Megan Grumbling, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and Chris Seid.  Copies of their books will be available for sale at the event and the writers will be signing their works following the reading.

Megan Grumbling

Megan Grumbling’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, and The Antioch Review and was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She teaches writing at the University of New England and Southern Maine Community College, edits reviews for The Café Review, reviews theatre
for the Portland Phoenix, and coordinates the LIT series for Mayo Street Arts.                                         


Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is a writer and teacher. His first collection of poems, Death of a Ventriloquist, was chosen by Lisa Russ Spaar for the Vassar Miller Prize and published in 2012. His poems have appeared in magazines including Guernica, The New Republic, and Tin House and received awards from the Bellevue Literary Review and UC Berkeley. With graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and Columbia University, he has taught writing and literature in public and private middle schools, high schools, and colleges in California, Vermont, New York, and Maine. In 2011 he was named one of Maine’s “emerging leaders” by the Portland Press Herald and Maine Today Media for his work directing The Telling Room, where he still occasionally teaches writing. He is the Poetry Editor of Maine Magazine and is at work on a novel.

Christopher Seid
Christopher Seid was born and raised in Iowa. He lived in New Hampshire, Cape Cod, Southern California and Brooklyn before moving to Maine in 2002. He attended the University of Iowa as an undergrad and received an MFA from Vermont College. His first--and only--book of poems, Prayers to the Other Life, won the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize. His second book, Tranquility Base, needs a few finishing touches before it's ready for prime time. Chris lives in Yarmouth with his two children and works as a freelance writer.

For more information on the event, contact LA Arts at 782-7228 or the LPL Adult Services Desk at 513-3135.