Richard Blanco Writers Series - Poet Jeffrey Thomson

Jeff Thomson, poet, writer, teacher, and director of the creative writing program at University of Maine at Farmington will read from his non-fiction book, Fragile. A reception and book-signing will follow in the IDEAS Center.

Jeffrey Thomson is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, and is the author of multiple books including the memoir Fragile, The Belfast Notebooks, The Complete Poems of Catullus, and the edited collection From the Fishhouse. Half/Life: New and Selected Poems comes out from Alice James Books in 2019. He has been an NEA Fellow, the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University. He is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.