Poetry Reading By Michael Collier

Poet Michael Collier will read his poetry at Friends of the Talbot County Free Library Brown Bag Luncheon at 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, April 17th.

Collier, a former Maryland poet laureate, teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Maryland as well as directing the annual Breadloaf Writer's Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Ledge (2000), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, most recently, Dark Wild Realm (2006).

Collier, as well as three other Maryland laureates, is visiting Maryland public library systems this spring as part of a statewide public library grant: Poetry's Here @ Your Maryland Library. The reading will conclude with the presentation to the library of a “Laureate's Shelf” containing works by six of Maryland's past Poets Laureates.

Poetry's Here, a year-long project designed to bring poets and poetry to Maryland public libraries, is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, through the Division of Library Development & Services, Maryland State Department of Education to the Maryland Humanities Council.