Calendar of Events

O'Brien Poetry Event
2026-04-16 15:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | McGoldrick Center, 35 Bedford Street, Portland, United States
The O’Brien Poetry Event will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2026 in the McGoldrick Center, Salons A/B/C, Portland. There will be an informal Q&A session from 3:30-4:30 pm and the reading will begin at 5:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served. Sign Language Interpreting services will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Click here to add this event to your calendar.
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1977, and arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American government.
He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press) and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press) and co-editor and co-translated many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins), In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine (Arrowsmith), and Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Alice James Books). His work was the finalist for The National Book Award and won The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Whiting Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, Lannan Fellowship, Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Poetry magazine’s Levinson Prize, and was also shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award, Neustadt International Literature Prize, and T.S. Eliot Prize (UK).
Ilya Kaminsky has worked as a law clerk for San Francisco Legal Aid and the National Immigration Law Center. More recently, he worked pro-bono as the Court Appointed Special Advocate for Orphaned Children in Southern California. Currently he is a Professor and Director of Princeton’s Creative Writing Program.

Academic Film Showcase
2026-05-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Talbot Lecture Hall — Luther Bonney Hall, 85 Bedford St, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Communication and Media Studies’ annual Academic Film Showcase is rolling out the red carpet.
What’s on the reel? Work from students studying video production in the following courses during this academic year:

CMS 203/204: Intro to Video Production
CMS 340/341: Narrative Filmmaking
CMS 326: Special Effects and Animation
CMS 440/441: Advanced Narrative Filmmaking

Join us!
Date: May 5
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Location: Talbot Auditorium, Luther Bonney, Portland Campus
