# Event Details - **Event Name**: POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Please join us for a poetry reading with poets Sally Bliumis-Dunn and Betsy Sholl!About this Event"I read Alive in These Woods in one sitting and then read it again. At times I felt like crying, at other others, like laughing, but always I was dumbstruck by Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s authenticity, her tenderness, her lyrical brilliance. Each poem is like a painting I want to hang above my desk, or an insight I want to frame. Whether reflecting on midlife, marital struggles, motherhood, encounters with hawks and butterflies, or the ache of loneliness, she is also writing about the fundamental questions of existence: how do we live, find meaning, and transform ourselves in the midst of our troubled lives?" --NIN ANDREWSSally Bliumis-Dunn teaches at the 92nd Street Y and is Associate Editor-at-Large for Plume Poetry journal. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her third book, Echolocation, was published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in March of 2018 and was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award, a longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award and Runner Up for the Poetry By the Sea Best Book Award. Her fourth book, Alive in these Woods, will be published in September of 2026.Betsy Sholl is the author of nine poetry collections including Otherwise Unseeable, Rough Cradle, Late Psalm, Don’t Explain, and The Red Line. A former poet laureate of Maine, Sholl teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/poetry-reading-with-sally-bliumis-dunn-and-betsy-sholl/100002002659878607 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Longfellow Books - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Portland - **state**: ME - **country**: United States - **location**: Longfellow Books - **lat**: 43.6665821 - **long**: -70.24606539999999 - **full address**: Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/3ddda364c6b4894a07b1c85ab181ea8d48c561ed5086ade45aac3d4064a7a796-rimg-w1200-h600-dc687858-gmir.jpg?v=1790814664 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl being held? - **A:** POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl takes place on Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl? - **A:** POETRY READING with Sally Bliumis-Dunn & Betsy Sholl is organized by Longfellow Books. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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