Denmark Authors Series EXTENDED!
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the Denmark Arts Center
The Denmark Authors Series has been extended!
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the DAC
Join us for an afternoon with poet Jacques J. Rancourt and his full-length collection, Brocken Spectre. This reading will be on a Saturday different from our usual Sunday presentations. It’s a Books & Beer type of season – sit back, sip and savor the spoken word. Concessions are available.
Jacques J. Rancourt was born in southern Maine and spent his formative years in an off-the-grid cabin near the mouth of the 100-mile wilderness, the Appalachian Trail’s northern terminus. He attended the University of Maine at Farmington, where he received a B.A. in English and a B.F.A. in Creative Writing. Rancourt earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His first full-length collection, Novena,won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, selected by Hadara Bar-Nadav, and was published in 2017 from Pleiades Press. A chapbook of poems, In the Time of PrEP,was published the following year as the inaugural title in the Chad Walsh chapbook series from the Beloit Poetry Journal.His second full-length collection, Brocken Spectre,is an editor’s choice selection for the Alice James Award and was published in 2021.
He has published individual poems in magazines such as AGNI, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review,Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA. His work has been featured in Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse,and the San Francisco Chronicle,as well as in the Best of the Net and Best New Poets anthologies.
Jacques is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a five-month residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.
Support for the Authors Series comes from an Anonymous Angel, Bridgton Books, and guests like you. Events are held at the Denmark Arts Center,
50 W. Main St. Denmark, ME, 207-452-2412
Authors Series Events are pay-what-you-can.
For more information and reservations go to denmarkarts.org.
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library and the Historical Society. It is sponsored by Bridgton Books.
Denmark Authors Series EXTENDED!
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the Denmark Arts Center
SATURDAY, Oct 15 at 3:00 at the DAC
Join us for an afternoon with poet Jacques J. Rancourt and his full-length collection, Brocken Spectre. This reading will be on a Saturday different from our usual Sunday presentations. It’s a Books & Beer type of season – sit back, sip and savor the spoken word. Concessions are available.
Jacques J. Rancourt was born in southern Maine and spent his formative years in an off-the-grid cabin near the mouth of the 100-mile wilderness, the Appalachian Trail’s northern terminus. He attended the University of Maine at Farmington, where he received a B.A. in English and a B.F.A. in Creative Writing. Rancourt earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His first full-length collection, Novena, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, selected by Hadara Bar-Nadav, and was published in 2017 from Pleiades Press. A chapbook of poems, In the Time of PrEP, was published the following year as the inaugural title in the Chad Walsh chapbook series from the Beloit Poetry Journal. His second full-length collection, Brocken Spectre, is an editor’s choice selection for the Alice James Award and was published in 2021.
He has published individual poems in magazines such as AGNI, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA. His work has been featured in Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in the Best of the Net and Best New Poets anthologies.
Jacques is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a five-month residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.
Support for the Authors Series comes from an Anonymous Angel, Bridgton Books, and guests like you.
Events are held at the Denmark Arts Center,
50 W. Main St. Denmark, ME, 207-452-2412
Authors Series Events are pay-what-you-can.
For more information and reservations go to denmarkarts.org.
The Denmark Authors Series is a collaboration between the Denmark Arts Center, the Public Library and the Historical Society. It is sponsored by Bridgton Books.
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