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UMF Visiting Writers Series Kicks Off Semester with Award Winning Poet Chad Davidson

FARMINGTON, ME (February 3, 2010)--Bringing some of America's most important
writers to campus, the University of Maine at Farmington Visiting Writers
Series will kick-off the spring semester with a reading by award-winning
poet Chad Davidson. Presented by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative
Writing program, this free and open-to-the-public event will take place at
7:30 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 11, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student
Center and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Davidson is the author of "Consolation Miracle" (Southern Illinois
University Press, 2003) and "The Last Predicta" (Southern Illinois
University Press, 2008) and editor, with John Poch, of "Hockey Haiku: The
Essential Collection" (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006). His poems have appeared
or are forthcoming in AGNI, Doubletake, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner,
Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review and others.

According to Bruce Bond, poet and poetry editor of American Literary
Review, Davidson's "Consolation Miracle" is, ". . . a bag of jewels, poems
both finely cut and sparkling with imaginative fire. Surely he is one of
the most resourceful, supple and soulful young poets writing today."

Davidson teaches literature and creative writing at the University of West
Georgia near Atlanta.

More Information on the UMF Creative Writing Program

As the only Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in the state
of Maine and one of only three in all of New England, the UMF program
invites students to work with faculty, who are practicing writers, in
workshop-style classes to discover and develop their writing strengths in
the genres of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Small classes, an emphasis
on individual conferencing, and the development of a writing portfolio
allow students to see themselves as artists and refine their writing under
the guidance of accomplished and published faculty mentors. Students can
pursue internships to gain real-world writing and publishing experience by
working on campus with The Beloit Poetry Journal, a distinguished poetry
publication since 1950; or Alice James Books, an award-winning poetry
publishing house.

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Media Contact: Jeffrey Thomson, UMF associate professor of creative
writing, at 207-778-7454, or jeffrey.thomson@maine.edu.


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