Thanks to Yarmouth Municipal TV, this program is now available online!
Yarmouth History Center welcomes Maine poet Jeri Theriault to the Fall Lecture Series at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 28. She will read from her new collection, Self-Portrait as Homestead (Deerbrook Editions), and discuss the process of mapping a personal history through poetry. The poems in this collection focus on Waterville and Jeri’s Franco-American heritage. This free program will be held in person at the Yarmouth History Center, 118 East Elm Street in Yarmouth.
Jeri Theriault, a Franco-American poet, grew up in Waterville, Maine and graduated from Colby College, later earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry collections include Radost, my red and In the Museum of Surrender. She is the editor of WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic. Her poems and reviews have appeared in publications such as The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Atlanta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, and Plume. Recent awards include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Monson Arts Fellowship and the 2022 NORward Prize (New Ohio Review). Jeri lives in South Portland.
This lecture is free and open to all. The lecture series is sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund.
