FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington will present poet Terri Witek as the next reader in its 2009-10 Visiting Writers Series.

Witek will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public.

Witek is the author of “Fools and Crows,” “Carnal World,” “The Shipwreck Dress” and “Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self.”

She won the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Contest in 2000 for her chapbook “Courting Couples,” the Hand Award for creative/scholarly activity in 1994 and the McEniry Award for excellence in teaching in 2000.

She has had her poems published in The New Republic, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Shenandoah and The Ohio Review.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D., she currently holds the Art & Melissa Sullivan chair in creative writing at Stetson University in Deland, Fla.