ROCKLAND — Join the Rockland Public Library (live and via Zoom) for the first “Never Through Me Shall You Be Overcome” LGBTQ+ Poetry Series, Thursday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., hosted by Millay House Rockland, and co-sponsored by OUT Maine, Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England, Maine Humanities Council, and Rockland Public Library.

White is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, and an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She’s the author of the poetic memoir Who’s Your Daddy (Augury Books), a finalist for the Maine Literary Award and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Award for Poetry, and she co-edited the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart (Foglifter Press).

In collaboration with composer Jessica Jones, White is working on Post Pardon: The Opera, which will premiere in 2025. She’s is an associate professor in English and Creative Writing at Colby College, and serves as a community advisory board member for Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, White curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing.

White will be joined by Maine’s Poetry Out Loud State Finalists, including State Runner Up Willow Knowles from Kennebunk High School, and Charlotte Schatz from Maine Coast Waldorf School.

For more information or for Zoom links: email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov with the subject line "Arisa White."

This program was rescheduled from Thursday, April 8, due to a storm. 

Inquiries can be sent to elewis@rocklandmaine.gov or 207-594-0310.