FARMINGTON – UMF Professor Emeritus and writer-in-residence Wesley McNair will read from his new book “The Ghosts of You and Me” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, at the University of Maine at Farmington.

The reading in Thomas Auditorium in Ricker Hall is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a book-signing.

McNair has received fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations; an NEH fellowship in literature; and two NEA fellowships in poetry. Other awards include the Robert Frost Prize; the Jane Kenyon Award; prizes from Poetry, Poetry Northwest and Yankee magazines; The Sarah Josepha Hale Medal for his “distinguished contribution to the world of letters;” and two honorary doctoral degrees for literary distinction.

McNair twice served on the nominating jury for the Pulitzer Prize and wrote the scripts for an Emmy Award-winning series on Robert Frost that aired on PBS. Featured on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” and NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” his work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize annual, two editions of “The Best American Poetry” and more than 50 anthologies. He has published 14 books, including poetry and essays.