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University of Maine at Farmington Presents Award Winning Writer Terri Witek in Visiting Writers Series

FARMINGTON, ME (October 14, 2009)--The University of Maine at Farmington's
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is proud to present poet
Terri Witek as the next reader in its 2009-10 Visiting Writers Series.
Witek will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, October 22, 2009,
in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and
open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Terri Witek is the author of "Fools and Crows" (Orchises press, 2003),
"Carnal World" (Story Line press 2006), "The Shipwreck Dress" (Orchises
press, 2008), and "Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self" (U
Missouri P, 1993). She has won the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Contest
in 2000 for her chapbook "Courting Couples," the Hand Award for
Creative/Scholarly Activity in 1994, and also the McEniry Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 2000.

She has had her poems published in The New Republic, Poetry, The Threepenny
Review, Shenandoah, and The Ohio Review; as well as articles in American
Literature, and Shenandoah. A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Ph.
D., she is currently the holder of the Art & Melissa Sullivan Chair in
Creative Writing at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.

More Information on the UMF Creative Writing Program

The UMF program is 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.
It 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. http://www.farmington.edu/majors/viewMajor.php?catalogID=8


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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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