Join us for an evening of poetry at Stone Broke Bread & Books, sprung from research in the Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC). Beth Alison Jones will read from an in-progress series of poems inspired by the journals of Isabel Hoffses, a 19th-century school teacher from Waldoboro, Maine.  She suffered bouts of homelessness, poverty, and a debilitating mental illness. The poems explore a powerful and singular mental will that insists on its own freedom.  The Civil War is the unmentioned backdrop.  

MWWC Archivist Jefferson Navicky will read poems inspired by his work at MWWC processing archival collections, assisting researchers, and communing with ghosts and other spirits that haunt the past’s detritus.