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Dawn Potter to Give Public Reading at NYA

Posted by Lisa Robbins   |   March 27, 2012   |   Comment  Make a Comment »

Maine poet and essayist Dawn Potter will give a public reading from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, 2012 at North Yarmouth Academy’s Higgins Hall (168 Main Street, Yarmouth). The reading is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale.

Dawn Potter, Maine poet & essayist

Dawn Potter, Maine poet & essayist

Potter’s poetry collections include How the Crimes Happened (finalist for the 2011 Maine Literary Awards) and Boy Land and Other Poems. Her memoir, Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, chronicles her unusual project of copying all of John Milton’s Paradise Lost while living in the Maine woods. Tracing Paradise won the 2010 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction. She has received grants and fellowships from the Writer’s Center, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. She is the associate director of the Frost Place Conference of Poetry and Teaching held each summer at Robert Frost’s home in Franconia, New Hampshire. She serves on the Beloit Poetry Journal’s editorial board, and lives in Harmony, Maine.

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Writer Susan Conley to Attend Classes and Give Public Reading at NYA

Posted by Lisa Robbins   |   November 9, 2011   |   Comment  Make a Comment »

Writers in Process

Writer Susan Conley will visit North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 to speak with Upper School students followed by several workshops with Upper School English classes. From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Conley will read and sign books in Higgins Hall (168 Main Street, Yarmouth) that is open to the public (donation suggested). Royal River Books will provide books for sale at a 10% discount.

Conley is the author of the critically acclaimed The Foremost Good Fortune, a memoir that explores her experiences in China with her family as she battles breast cancer. Currently, she is writing a novel to be published by Knopf. In addition to writing, Conley co-founded The Telling Room in Portland (ME), a non-profit creative writing center for students ages six to eighteen.

Conley’s visit is part of a visiting writers’ series entitled Writers in Process: Bringing the literary world to NYA and Yarmouth. The series began in October with Lily King, author of Father of the Rain, The English Teacher and The Pleasing Hour. Each visit will include an evening lecture and book signing open to the public.

North Yarmouth Academy is an independent, college preparatory, coeducational day school serving students in grades five through twelve. For 198 years, NYA has fostered integrity, character and intellect in young adults. For more information, please contact NYA at 207-847-5423 or visit our website at www.nya.org.

NYA Launches Visiting Writers’ Series

Posted by Lisa Robbins   |   September 27, 2011   |   Comment  Make a Comment »

 

Yarmouth author Lily King

Yarmouth author Lily King engages an NYA English class

Writers in Process

North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) is launching a visiting writers’ series entitled Writers in Process: Bringing the literary world to NYA and Yarmouth. The series begins on Thursday, October 13 with novelist and Yarmouth resident Lily King, author of Father of the Rain, The English Teacher and The Pleasing Hour. King will be on campus to conduct a lecture to Upper School students followed by several workshops with Upper School English classes. From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., King will do a reading and book signing in Higgins Hall (168 Main Street, Yarmouth) that is open to the public (donation suggested). Royal River Books will provide books for sale at a 10% discount.  

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