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"All in all, this is the best book about rural New England life since Jane Brox's "Here and Nowhere Else." Its scope is narrow but its reach is vast." --Robert Finch, The Boston Globe

Now available:
The Road Washes Out in Spring (paperback edition, UPNE)
Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems (Sarabande Books)
The Poetry Life: Ten Stories (CavanKerry Press)

New! See the Talks/Articles section for BW's keynote speech at the New England Young Writers Conference, Bread Loaf, Ripton, VT, May 2008.

See the Talks/Articles section for a new essay--"Nonfiction Brouhaha."

Upcoming Readings

July 29: Green Mountain Writers Conference
Tinmouth, VT

August 1: Frost Place Festival
Franconia, NH

August 18: Waldoboro Public Library, 7 p.m.
958 Main St., Waldoboro, ME

August 19:Cape Split Chapel, 7 p.m.
Cape Split Road, South Addison, Maine

September 7: Port in a Storm Books, 8 p.m.
Main Street, Somesville, Maine

September 17: Warren County Community College, 7:30 p.m.
Washington, New Jersey