Megan Grumbling to read her poetry in York as part of the Maine Poetry Express

Poet Megan Grumbling, who is a developmental writing specialist in the UNE Student Academic Success Center, will be reading with Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair and Richard Foerster at the York Public Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday April 9, as part of the Maine Poetry Express. The Maine Poetry Express, an initiative of the Office of the Maine Poet Laureate, is a whistle-stop tour of community poetry readings conducted by McNair, who brings together Maine poets and townspeople for readings and discussions of poetry.

Grumbling's work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and other journals; and she has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation’s Award for Poetry. She also conducts writing workshops with both youth and adults, serves as reviews editor for the poetry and arts journal The Café Review, and is the theater critic for the Portland Phoenix.