Books will be available for purchase.

About the event

Franco-American Portraits: Telling Family Stories                                 

Jeri will give an overview of Franco-American voices, reading excerpts from such works as David Vermette’s A Distinct Alien Race, Kerri Arsenault’s Mill Town, and Rhea Côté Robbins’s Wednesday’s Child.

The heart of her presentation will focus on her new book, a “self-portrait” created from memories as well as the likenesses and stories (read and imagined) of close ancestors, grandmother, mother, father, and others. 

A visual presentation may accompany this reading.

For more information about the book, click here.

About the author

A Franco-American poet, Jeri Theriault grew up in Waterville, Maine, and graduated from Colby College, later earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her teaching career spanned thirty-four years, six of them as English Department Chair at the International School of Prague. Her poetry collections include Radost, my red, the award-winning, In the Museum of Surrender, and Self-Portrait as Homestead. She is the editor of WAIT: Poems from the Pandemic. Her poems and reviews appear in The Rumpus, The Texas Review, The Atlanta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Plume, and many other publications. Recent awards include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Monson Arts Fellowship, and the 2022 NORward Prize (New Ohio Review). Jeri lives in South Portland. 

You can find more information about Jeri and her work on her website.  Just click here!  

You can also follow her on Facebook @jeri.theriault and on Instagram @jeritheriault