On Thursday, Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m., the University of Maine New Writing Series hosts Giada Scodellaro in the Stewart Commons of the IMRC. Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is a writer, photographer, and translator who holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. Giada’s work has […]

Forty years ago this fall — on Oct. 26, 1981 — the phenomenal Québec poet Marie Uguay’s life and writing were cut short by bone cancer. She was twenty-six years old. Associated with Les intimistes (The Intimists), a group of Québécois poets who emerged in the 1980s and 90s, Uguay left behind three remarkable volumes […]