All programs are currently being offered online. Unless noted, attendance is administered by host sites.
Discussion Projects | Read ME | Poetry Express | Readers Retreat | World in Your Library
Discussion Projects
- Curtis Memorial Library
Reading: Things Fall Apart; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You; Just Mercy; and The Fire This Time
Thursdays | 7 pm | 5/20 - Cushing Public Library
Reading: Re-imagining the American Family
Thursdays | 6:30 pm | 4/22, 5/13 - Windham Public Library
Reading: Crossing Over: Contemporary American Indian Writers
Wednesdays | 6 pm | 4/28, 5/26, 6/23 - Lincoln Memorial Public Library
Reading: Women’s Suffrage in the US: A 20/20 Perspective
Wednesdays | 6:30 pm | 4/28, 5/19 - UMaine Augusta Library
Reading: Refreshing the Whodunit
Thursdays | 3 pm | 5/6, 6/3
- Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library
Reading: Life and Times: A Maine Bicentennial Series
Wednesdays | 6:30 pm |5/5 - York Public Library
Reading: Things Fall Apart and New Kid
Tuesdays | 6:30 pm | 4/27
Poetry Express
- National Poetry Month Kick-off
Wednesday | April 28 | 6:00pm | with Maine State Library
Featuring a collective of brilliant poets including MHC staff, partners, facilitators, speakers & friends: Samaa Abdurraqib, Jan Bindas-Tenney, Jenn Carter, Samara Cole Doyon, LaLa Drew, Sass Linneken, Myri U., Cait Vaughan, and Maya Williams. The event will explore the themes of healing and combating isolation through vulnerability and collaboration. Join on Zoom or Facebook Live via MSL or MHC Facebook pages. Meeting ID: 813 8958 2576 | Passcode: 331914 - The Telling Room
Poets: Amanda Dettmann & Rachel Iradukunda
Friday | May 21 | 7:00pm | This event will be streaming on Instagram Live
Read ME
- Summer Program Kick-off on Maine Calling
Friday | June 4, 2021 | 11:00 am – 12 noon - Author talk with Kerri Arsenault (Mill Town)
Thursday | July 15, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:00pm | Registration info TBD - Author Talk with Matt Cost (Mainely Power)
Thursday | August 19, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:00pm | Registration info TBD
Readers Retreat
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thursday-Saturday | May 6-8, 2021
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World in Your Library
- William Fogg Public Library
Speaker: Cody Mower | In Your Own Words
Thursday | April 28, 2021 | 6:30 pm - Maine Women’s Lobby
Speaker: Candace Kanes | Speak Out, Stand Up, Organize: Maine’s Fight for Women’s Rights
Thursday | May 6, 2021 | 4:15 pm - Auburn Public Library
Speaker: Krystal Willams |The Content of Our Character: Moving Forward as a Community
Thursday | May 6, 2021 | 7:00 pm - The Sebec Reading Room
Speaker: Libby Bischof | Visualizing 200 Years of Maine History
Thursday | May 13, 2021 | 7:00 pm - Rockland Public Library
Speaker: Arisa White | Who’s Your Daddy: Writing Collectively Through Personal Absence
Thursday | May 20, 2021 | 6:30 pm - Monhegan Memorial Library
Speaker: Marpheen Chann | Welcome Home: My Journey Through Foster Care, Coming Out, and Reuniting With Family
Thursday | June 23, 2021 | 7:00 pm
- Stonington Public Library
Speaker: Kate McBrien | Malaga Island
Wednesday | July 14, 2021 | 6:00 pm - West Paris Public Library
Speaker: Samara Cole Doyon | Embracing Our Magnificence as an Act of Resistance
Saturday | July 17, 2021 | 4:00 pm