BAR HARBOR — Former Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser joins Mount Desert Island poet Candice Stover at the Southwest Harbor Public Library on Thursday, May 3, beginning at 7 p.m. for a public reading to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Mr. Wormser is the author of eight books of poetry and a poetry chapbook. He is the co-author of two books about teaching poetry, a memoir and a collection of short stories. He teaches at Fairfield University and directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in Franconia, N.H. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He served as poet laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2005 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Maine-Augusta in 2005. He lives with his wife in Cabot, Vt. More information is available at www.baronwormser.com.

Ms. Stover is a native of Maine who has traveled and taught widely, including two years in Shanghai, China and workshops in New Zealand. A former reporter for The Boston Globe, she is the author of two poetry collections, “Holding Patterns” from Muse Press selected by Mary Oliver for a Maine Chapbook Award, and “Another Stopping Place” published by Oyster River Press. Her work has been published as well in the anthology, “The Other Side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace,” and in a variety of journals and magazines. She lives on Mount Desert Island, where she teaches at College of the Atlantic, designs and facilitates independent writing workshops, and swims in or bicycles by or walks to Somes Pond almost every day.

For more information, visit www.swhplibrary.org or call 244-7065.

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