HALLOWELL — The Harlow gallery will host poets Mark Melnicove and David Sloan Friday, June 14, as part of its poetry series, “The Bookey Readings.”
The public is invited to attend and experience an evening of excellent spoken word in an art gallery setting. The readings start at 7 p.m.
Melnicove is author of two ekphrastic poetry collections — “Sometimes Times” (Two Palms Press, 2017), with printmaker Terry Winters, and “GHOSTS “(Cedar Grove House, 2018), with painter Abby Shahn. He is co-author of the children’s book “Africa Is Not a Country” (2001 Africana Book Award winner) and “The Uncensored Guide to Maine.”
He has been executive director and president of The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tilbury House publishers, in Gardiner. He teaches creative writing at Falmouth High School. His papers, spanning nearly 50 years of writing and publishing, are in Bowdoin College’s special collections library.
Sloan is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Poetry Program, and
teaches at Maine Coast Waldorf High School in Freeport. His debut poetry collection, “The Irresistible In-Between,” was published by Deerbrook Editions in 2013.
His poetry has appeared in The Café Review, Chiron Review, The Cider Press Review, Down East, Innisfree, Lascaux Review, Moon City Review, Naugatuck River Review, New Millenium Writings and Passager, among others.
He received the 2012 Betsy Sholl Award, Maine Literary awards in 2012 and 2016, the Margaret F. Tripp Poetry Award, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
The Bookey Readings at The Harlow, 100 Water St., is a monthly poetry series running from April through November for more than 25 years.
Refreshments will be served, and a $3 donation asked to benefit The Harlow. For more information about the this event, contact Claire Hersom at mamabelle@gwi.net.
PHOTO: Mark Melnicove, left, and David Sloan. (The Harlow staff photo)
