Megan Grumbling to join presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco on MPBN radio's 'Maine Calling' Thursday

Poet Megan Grumbling, UNE developmental writing specialist in the Student Academic Success Center; Richard Blanco, the Maine poet who read at Barack Obama's recent presidential inauguration; and Portland poet and teacher Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will participate in an MPBN radio "Maine Calling" program on "Poetry in Maine" Thursday, Feb. 14 from 12:15 to 1 p.m.

Grumbling's poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and other journals; and she has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation’s Award for Poetry. She also conducts writing workshops with both youth and adults, serves as reviews editor for the poetry and arts journal The Café Review, and is the theater critic for the Portland Phoenix.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.