10/22: Jeffrey Thomson: Half/Life–Book Launch and Film Preview of Blink
4:30pm
Performance Space
Free and open to the public.
BFA faculty members Jeffrey Thomson and Amy Neswald will debut creative works in the Performance Space in the Emery Community Arts Center at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22.
This event introduces Half/Life, (Alice James Books 2019) a book of new and selected poems by Thomson—poet, author and professor of creative writing. The poems in his new collection radiate a love for life, the world and the temporal nature of existence. Roots of memory and nostalgia become the architecture of the mind as Thomson explores the past to better grasp the future.
Neswald—writer, filmmaker and new faculty member—will also preview her short film, “Blink,” based on Thomson’s Half/Life poem of the same name. Her film was screened at the 2019 O Bheal International Poetry-Film Festival in Cork, Ireland, where it was short-listed for an award and will appear in O Bheal’s poetry-film touring programme, at a number of Irish film and literary festivals and screened throughout the year.
Following the Emery events, a hard-copy party/launch will take place at the Homestead in downtown Farmington at 6 p.m. Wes McNair, American poet, writer, former Maine Poet Laureate and UMF professor emeritus, will introduce Thomson, who will do a short reading and book signing.
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