Poetry Night (MCELA's pre-conference event)

Poetry Night at Penobscot Theater Company, our Pre-Conference Event. 

The evening starts at 5:30 with drinks and food provided by MCELA. Then, from 6-7 PM, we'll all hear from our featured poet, Dawn Potter. 

Poet: Dawn Potter

Dawn Potter is the author or editor of ten books of prose and poetry—most recently the poetry collection Calendar. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has also won a Maine Literary Award for nonfiction and has received grants and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Writer's Center, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Sewanee Review, the Threepenny Review, and many other journals. After teaching at the Frost Place for more than a decade, she now leads poetry programs at Monson Arts. She lives in Portland, Maine.