Sunday August 17, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL

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Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine where she works as a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and is the author of Death Fluorescence, Midden, and Work by Bloodlight. Bouwsma’s honors include a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and two Maine Literary Awards. Her work can be found in Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Kenyon Review, Plume, Poetry Daily, and others. She has taught in the Creative Writing the University of Maine (Farmington), serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, and works as the Library Director for Webster Library.

Hiram Larew’s poems have received the Louisiana Literature Prize, the Washington review poetry blue ribbon, and have been nominated for four Pushcarts.  His work has appeared in Poetry Scotland, Poetry South, The Brown Critique, Contemporary American Voices, Honest Ulsterman, Amsterdam Quarterly and others.  He’s received an artists’ grants from Arts Councils as well as the United Nations for his Poetry X Hunger initiative which encourages poets to contribute to anti-hunger efforts, founded the Voices of Woodlawn, a powerful program of poetry, music and art that explores America’s tragic history of slavery, is a Courtesy Faculty at five U. S. universities.

Peter E. Murphy has published a dozen books of nonfiction and poetry, has appeared in hundreds of journals, anthologies and textbooks including The Sun, The Shakespeare Quarterly, Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, Harpur Palate, The Literary Review and The New Welsh Reader. For more than forty years Peter has led workshops for thousands of writers in the United States and abroad. He has been a consultant to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Educational Testing Service, Arts Horizons, AtlantiCare Health System, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey Councils for the Arts and the Humanities, The New Jersey Department of Education, and countless school districts from coast to coast.

Scott W. Williams (University of Buffalo Mathematics Professor Emeritus) is a traveling poet and author of short stories. He is author of The Gamblers Woods: Poetry from Baltimore’s Wilson Park, (Moonstone Press) and six other books. Scott edits the syfy poetry&flash-fiction anthology series, A Flash of Dark and A Flash of Dark vol 2, and hosts workshops of the poetic forms Ghazal, Haiku and Senryu and co-hosts the series Second Stage Writers and Poets Soup).