FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will present poet Terri Witek as the next reader in its 2009- 10 Visiting Writers Series. Witek will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, Oct. 22, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.

Terri Witek is the author of “Fools and Crows” (Orchises press, 2003), “Carnal World” (Story Line press 2006), “The Shipwreck Dress” (Orchises press, 2008), and “Robert Lowell and Life Studies: Revising the Self” (U Missouri P, 1993).

She has won the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Contest in 2000 for her chapbook “Courting Couples,” the Hand Award for Creative/Scholarly Activity in 1994, and also the McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.

She has had her poems published in The New Republic, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Shenandoah, and The Ohio Review; as well as articles in American Literature, and Shenandoah. A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D., she is currently the holder of the Art & Melissa Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University in Deland, Fla.