BETHEL — The Western Mountains Senior College will sponsor a Q&A session and reading with author and poet Richard Blanco from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, in the McLaughlin Auditorium at Gould Academy.
The reading will be held as part of Down Home Maine, a program run by the Western Mountains Senior College.
According to a news release by Down Home Maine, Blanco will speak about what it means to be Cuban, what it means to be American and “how he strives to mend the two halves of himself.”
Blanco, of Bethel, was named the inaugural poet for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013.
The group suggested that people read Blanco’s poem “Matters of the Sea.” It is available at Books N Things on Main Street in Norway and at the Bethel Library on Broad Street.
The reading is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 207-890-4812 or email amy.w.chapman@gmail.com.
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