Unless noted, events are held online with attendance administered by host sites. Please contact host sites for further information.
Discussion Project | Maine Speaks | Poetry Express | Read ME | Special Programs
Discussion Projects
- Cushing Public Library
Reading: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; The Beautiful Things; They Called Us Enemy; Living Nations, Living Words; First Blade of Sweetgrass
Thursdays | 6:30 pm | 5/26, 6/30 - Restorative Justice Project Maine and Rockland Public Library
Reading: Felon Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts and Becoming Ms. Burton by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn
Fridays | 2:00 pm | 5/20, 6/3, 6/17, 7/1 - Boothbay Public Library
Reading: Growing Up Between Cultures
Saturdays | 10:30 am | 6/4 - Windham Public Library
Reading: Salvage the Bones; Fifth Season; World Made by Hand; All We Can Save
Wednesdays | 6:00 pm | 5/25 - Wisdom Middle/High School (In-person event)
Reading: Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis; No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference; 5th Season; Mill Town
Wednesdays | 3:00 pm | 6/8 - Brick Store Museum
Reading: Letters from the Brick Store Museum archive
Thursdays | 6:00 pm | 6/9 - James Ford & Leigh Anne Keichline (email to resgiter)
Reading: two books by the civil rights activist, author & lawyer James Weldon Johnson who died in Wiscasset in 1938.
Wednesday 6/1, Tuesday 6/7, and Monday 6/13 | 5:30PM - Waterboro Public Library
Reading: Entering Nature: The Human Self in the Natural World
Wednesdays | 12:00 pm | 6/22, 7/13, 8/3, 8/24, 9/14
Maine Speaks
- Paul Buck | Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) and Maine’s Northern Border
Lincoln Historical Society
Saturday | May 21, 2022 | 10:00 am - Pam Cummings | The Underground Railroad: Retracing the Tracks
Vassalboro Public Library
Saturday | May 21 | 10:00 am - Paul Buck | Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) and Maine’s Northern Border
Thompson Free Library
Thursday | May 26, 2022 | 6:00 pm
Poetry Express
- Spring-fall dates TBD
Read ME
- Author Talk with Meredith Hall (Online and in-person)
Rockland Public Library
Thursday | June 2, 2022 | 6:30 PM - Summer Kick-off on Maine Calling
Friday | June 3, 2022 | 11am | Listen on Maine Public - Statewide Author Talk with Phuc Tran
Hosted by MSL and MHC
Tuesday | July 12, 2022 | 7PM | Register now - Book Discussion on Sigh, Gone (Limited in-person)
Curtis Memorial Library (registration required)
Thursday | July 13, 2022 | 1:00 PM - Author Talk with Phuc Tran (In-person)
Mechanics’ Hall (registration required)
Wednesday| August 3, 2022 | 7:00 PM - Statewide Author Talk with Meredith Hall
Hosted by MSL and MHC
Thursday | August 25, 2022 | 7PM | Register now - Book Discussion on Beneficence (Limited in-person)
Curtis Memorial Library (registration required)
Tuesday| August 23, 2022 | 1:00 PM
Special Programs
- Readers Retreat: Wild Seed (registration required)
Saturday | May 21 | 8:30 am-5 pm
Southern Maine Community College, Oceanview Dining Hall