Events
Back Cove Books
Thursday April 25th, 2024 @ 6:00PM – 7:00PM
651 Forest Ave Ste 1, Portland, ME 04101
A Good House: Poems by Samaa Abdurraqib, Claire Millikin, and Jeri Theriault
House as haven, as danger, as prison, as lost. Three poets explore the metaphors and meanings of domestic spaces in this fundraiser for Through These Doors, Cumberland County’s domestic violence resource center.
Join us for an evening with local poets Samaa Abdurraqib, Claire Millikin, and Jeri Theriault on Thursday, April 25th at 6PM
A portion of sales from the event will be donated directly to Through These Doors
About the poets:
Samaa Abdurraqib is the Executive Director of Maine Humanities Council. She is also writer, an auntie, a poet, a bird nerd, a curmudgeon, an organizer, and a lover of the outdoors. Recently, her work can be found in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Writing the Land: Streamlines, and Cider Press Review. She was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Writers & Publisher’s Alliance Maine Chapbook Series. She is the editor of the collection From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023)
Claire Millikin is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Elegiaca Americana (Littoral Books). Millikin is a 2021 Maine Literary Award recipient. Millkin’s poetry book Dolls (2Leaf Press) was a semifinalist for the 2022 PSV Poetry Book Award for North American Publishers and Writers, while three of Millikin’s previous poetry collections were finalists for the Maine Literary Award. Claire Millikin teaches art history and American Studies at the University of Maine and at Bates College
Jeri Theriault’s recent awards include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Monson Arts Fellowship, the 2022 NORward Prize (New Ohio Review), and a 2019 Maine Literary Award. Her poems and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Atlanta Review, The Asheville Review, Plume, and many other publications. Recent collections are Radost, my red and In the Museum of Surrender. In 2021, she edited WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic. Self-Portrait as Homestead is forthcoming from Deerbrook editions in June, 2023. Jeri lives in South Portland. Find more about Jeri at www.jeritheriault.com
