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The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series will present award-winning poet Arisa White as the popular program’s final reader of the season at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 6, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a […]
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Arisa White. (Photo by Nye Lyn Tho)
The Rockland Public Library presents Arisa White, Thursday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m., over Zoom. This event, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council as part of their “World in Your Library” series, is free and open to all.
Learn about the seven-year writing journey that started during White’s “Jesus Year,” when her mother asked, “Do you want to write your father in Guyana?” Unsure what to say, White began penning epistolary poems addressed to her father. The poems and prose became documents of her daily life, citations from books, quotations from artists and cultural thinkers, song lyrics, and reflections on White’s spiritual condition. Feeling that this question of fatherhood wasn’t something she wanted to tackle alone, she hosted a call for submissions and community epistolary workshops for participants to write personal letters to distance, absent, or dead fathers, and patriarchal figures. The common themes of abandonment insp