Poetry Reading: Tim Seibles & Steve Scafidi | Freeport, ME

Poetry reading will be in Freeport, Maine, in a gorgeous barn in the woods. Exact location will be available with RSVP.

Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry, and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award. This was followed by One Turn Around the Sun in 2017, and the collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems, released by Etruscan Press in 2022. Seibles’ latest collection, With No Hat, was just released in early 2026. In partnership with musician and composer Chris Brydge, Seibles also released an album of selected works accompanied by jazz bass titled Something Like We Did (April, 2024). He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Furious Flower Poetry Center in 2024. Seibles lives in Norfolk, Virginia and is now an Emeritus Professor of English of Old Dominion University where he taught classes for the English Department and the MFA in Writing program.

Steve Scafidi is the author of Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), For Love of Common Words (LSU 2006), The Cabinetmaker’s Window (LSU 2014), To the Bramble and the Briar (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), a chapbook, Songs for the Carry-On (Q Avenue Press, 2013), and The Appalachian Sea (LSU 2025). Steve has won the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the James Boatwright Prize and the Miller Williams Prize. The Appalachian Sea was honored as one of the Best Books of 2025 by the New York Public Library. Steve works as a cabinetmaker and lives in Winchester, Virginia.

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