This month’s poem is “Along the Leie, fields full of the memory” by Éireann Lorsung. Call 207-828-5607 through October 6th to hear Éireann’s poem, read by the author.
“Along the Leie, fields full of the memory” was originally published in the Maine Sunday Telegram in August 2021.
Éireann Lorsung (pronounced “Erin”) is a writer, teacher, and maker of things, currently living between Maine and Dublin, Ireland. Her first book, Music for Landing Planes By, was named a ‘new and noteworthy’ book by Poets & Writers. Her second book, Her (a poem from it can be found at the Poetry Society of America), came out from Milkweed in 2013 and was beautifully reviewed in Zzyzzyva; a chapbook, Sweetbriar, came out the same year. Her third book, The Century, which LitHub named as one of their “most anticipated” 2020 titles, came out in October 2020 and has been reviewed in Ploughshares, the Portland Press Herald, the Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, among other places. The Century also won the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Poetry. Éireann was a 2016 NEA Fellow in creative writing (prose).
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