FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington features award-winning poet Dan Albergotti as this year’s final reader in its celebrated Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. Albergotti will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Albergotti’s first full-length collection of poems, “The Boatloads,” was selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. In spring 2008, his poem “What They’re Doing” was selected for a Pushcart Prize.

His limited-edition chapbook, “The Use of the World,” was reviewed in Poets Quarterly saying, “each poem is ripe with energy and world-weary wisdom.” Albergotti’s second full-length collection, “Millennial Teeth,” won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2014.

His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Pushcart Prize XXXIII, as well as other journals and anthologies. He has been a scholar at the Sewanee and Bread Loaf writers conferences and a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

A graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and former editor of The Greensboro Review, Albergotti is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.