Thomaston Library presents---

Half a Baker's Dozen: A Poetry Reading Celebration

Sunday, April 29th at 2 P.M. in Room 208 in the Thomaston Academy

Six local poets will read their original work at the Thomaston Public Library in celebration of the end of Poetry Month.

Carol Bachofner
Alan Clark
Chris Fahy
Ellen Goldsmith
Joanna Hynd
Kendall Merriam

Opening the program is well renowned local poet and founder of Rockland's Annual Poetry Month, Carol Bachofner. Bachofner's work has been described by Kathleen Ellis as "Imbued with an acute sense of place, drawn to rivers, finning across ponds, pulled to the sea, every poem welcomes both poet and reader as a long-lost relative."

Poet, playwright, and artist Alan Clark will follow Bachofner. Clark's art work has been displayed at the Farnsworth Art Museum and Asymmetrick Arts. In 2006, new poems appeared in The Caribbean Writer and The Wolf Moon Journal. Clark and Goldsmith will be reading this year together at the Lunchtime Fireside Poetry chats.

Novelist and poet Chris Fahy of Thomaston is the author of many novels and collections of short stories and poetry. In 1999 Fahy won a Grand Prize at the International Poetry Competition sponsored by the Atlanta Review.

Ellen Goldsmith is the winner of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center for the 1997 Chapman Contest and is the facilitator of the "Poetry in Art" workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Her poems have been published in many magazines and journals, including: Bangor Metro, California Quarterly, The Kerf, Off the Coast and Wolf Man Journal.

Joanna Hynd is the youngest of the poets reading. She has been published twice in The Maine Review in 2010 and 2012. She won 2nd place for poetry in the Grady Awards at the University of Maine in 2011 and High Honors for her undergraduate thesis, Metastable Structure, a manuscript of original poems. This will be her fifth public reading.

Closing the program will be the highly prolific Kendall Merriam. Merriam is Rockland's most recent poet laureate. During Merriam's term as laureate, he distributed poetry throughout the city of Rockland to approximately 100 people every week.

This reading will take place in the Thomaston Public Library section of the Academy building on 60 Main St. in Thomaston. Public parking is located behind the Academy.

In celebration of Poetry Month, the Thomaston Public Library will host two poetry readings in addition to poetry related displays and themes. This event is free and open to all ages. Contact us to find out more: 207-354-24532

Thomaston Library presents---

A Poetry Reading and Book Signing


On April 18th at 2 P.M. Diane Schetky will be reading from her latest book of poems: Dancing Bear and Other New Poems. This new book reflects her penchant for travel to extreme locations and her concern for our endangered earth. Her poetry is accessible, poignant and often humorous. This is her second book of poems since her 2009 collection: Poems on Loss, Hope and Healing.

This reading will take place in the Thomaston Public Library section of the Academy building on 60 Main St. in Thomaston. Public parking is located behind the Academy.

In celebration of Poetry Month, the Thomaston Public Library will host two poetry readings in addition to poetry related displays and themes. This event is free and open to all ages. Contact us to find out more at 207-354-2453.

Friday Night Film Series

Daphne Laureola

March 30, 2012

6:30 P.M.

All the diverse diners at a Soho restaurant have their worlds shaken up by Lady Pitts (Joan Plowright). Lady Pitts's drunken chattering elicits a variety of responses in the restaurant--from feelings of anger and irritation to stirrings of love. A free spirit lubricated by alcohol, Lady Pitts invites the diners to tea at the mansion of her husband (Laurence Olivier). When they all arrive she does not remember them, or having invited them.

Friday Night Film Series

Portrait of Jennie

March 23, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Eben Adams (Joseph Cotton) is a struggling, and mostly failing, New York artist--until he meets Jennie (Jennifer Jones), a strange, enchanting girl, one day in the park. When they meet again a few weeks later, Jennie seems to have aged several years. Soon they are swept up in a strange love that even time itself cannot contain. Inspired by her, haunted by her, Eben finds new life in his art, and plans the portrait that will be his masterpiece, the portrait of Jennie.

Friday Night Film Series

Songcatcher

March 16, 2012

6:30 P.M.

During a visit to her sister in Appalachia, musicologist Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) stumbles upon a treasure trove of dozens of Scots-Irish ballads that have been preserved for generations by the local populace and are unknown to the outside world. Intent on collecting the beautiful songs, Lily comes to admire the locals, who live a tough, hardscrabble existence without complaint.

Friday Night Film Series

Gaby

March 9, 2012

6:30 P.M.

Based on the life of cerebral palsy sufferer Gabriela Brimmer (played by Rachel Levin), this unsentimental drama celebrates strength in the face of adversity. It takes the family maid, (Norma Aleandro), to discover the keen mind trapped in the girl's incapacitated body. Armed with determination and a lust for life, young Gaby soon succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams--except hers. Liv Ullman and Robert Loggia portray her parents.