Join local humorist Rebecca Rule and former Poet Laurete and Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin for an engaging afternoon of discussion and laughter on the subject of writing. The event is on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2pm in the Dimond Library 5th Floor reading room. The program is free and open to all, but seating is limited. Please register online or call 862-1541.

The author of 16 books of poems, Maxine Kumin has written 3 essay collections, a collection of short stories, 4 novels and an animal rights murder mystery, Quit Monks or Die!. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets’ Prize and the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a National Council on the Arts fellowship. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.

In the style of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from Dimond Library. Three times a year, the Authors’ Series features an author who lives, summers, teaches or was born in New Hampshire.

Interviews are conducted in front of a live audience (with an opportunity for questions from the audience) and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for future broadcast.