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The Writing Life......Read, Read, Read
To be a writer, you must read other writers. The creative writing faculty has helped UMF’s Mantor library build a collection of contemporary literature in poetry, fiction, short fiction and creative nonfiction. In addition, our library carries many literary journals and magazines of interest to writers. Many more journals and e-zines are available online. Check them out and see what’s happening in the writing world.
Literary journals and magazines in Mantor Library
American Poetry Review (online fulltext)
Antioch Review
Atlantic Monthly
Beloit Poetry Journal
Creative Nonfiction
Fourth Genre (nonfiction)
Gettysburg Review
Glimmer Train
Great River Review (online fulltext)
Green Mountains Review
Harper’s Magazine
Iowa Review
Maine in Print (the magazine of the Maine Writer’s and Publisher’s Alliance)
Mississippi Review (online)
North American Review
Orion
River teeth (nonfiction)
Poetry
Poets and Writers
Publishers Weekly
Puckerbrush Review (last issue 2006)
Texas Review (online)
Sandy River Review (UMF’s campus literary magazine)
Writer
Writer’s Digest
Literary Community……
Participate, Watch and Listen
Part of being a writer is participating in literary community—learning about the lives and work of writers who’ve come before you, going to readings, hanging out with other writers, reading your own work at open mics. Mantor Library has a diverse collection of video tapes and cds of writers reading and being interviewed. They include most if not all of the authors who have read as part of the UMF Visiting Writers Series, as well as other videos of accomplished writers you may or may not have heard of. Check them out, and see what an incredible literary world you are part of.
272 Alice Walker
277 Allen Ginsberg
289 Anne Waldman
266 Amiri Baraka
265 Barry Lopez
320 Bei Dao
205 Betsy Sholl and Robert Farnsworth
247 Louise Gluck
185 Lucille Clifton
201 Michael Dorris
278 Octavio Paz
173 Carolyn Chute (fiction reading)
279 Czeslaw Milosz
207 Frank Bidart (poetry reading)
208 Frank Bidart reads “Ellen West”
154 Galway Kinnell
184 Gerald Stern (poetry reading)
206 Grace Paley (fiction reading)
259 Hayden Carruth
284 Ishmael Reed
275 Joy Harjo
187 Robert Begiebing/Alfred Depew (fiction reading)
165 Robert Frost in the Country of Milk and Sugar/Wesley McNair
164 Robert Frost - Versed in Country Things/Wesley McNair
203 Roland Flint (poetry reading)
267 Seamus Heaney
188 Sharon Olds (poetry reading)
250 Sharon Olds
182 Tobias Wolff (fiction reading)
082 Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes
083 Voices and Visions: Sylvia Plath
168 McNair/CharlesSimic
042 Wild Man, Wild Woman (Robert Bly)
162 William Stafford
163 Works of Robert Frost
Available at Mantor Library with no catalog number:
Annie Proulx
Abigail Stone
Cathie Pelletier
Donald Hall (his most recent reading)
Cooke, O’Donnell, Roorbach (reading from
The Quotable Moose)
Hayden, Carruth (his most recent reading)
Lawrence O’Rourke, Lore Segal
Lore Segal (Winter, 1993/94)
Lore Segal (Fall 1994)
A Quotable Moose Reading (Barnes, Bloom, Carpenter, Peak, Roorbach, Shetterly)
Richard Russo (fiction)
Sharon Sheehe Stark
Grace Paley (fiction)
Adrian Blevins (poetry)
Baron Wormser (poetry)
Barrie Jean Borich (NF)
Cate Marvin (poetry)
Christian Barter
Dan Chiasson (poetry)
Janisse Ray (NF)
Joyce Sutphen (poetry)
Katherine Min (fiction)
Lauren Slater (NF)
Lola Haskins
Major Jackson (poetry)
Michael Burke (NF)
Michael Lowenthal (fiction)
Nicholosn Baker (fiction) 
Richard Hoffman (NF)
Rigoberto Gonzalez (NF)
Steve Almond (NF)
Sy Montgomery (NF)
Syd Lea (poetry)
Terrance Hayes
Tom Bailey (2 videos)
Zakes Mda
Available in the Creative Writing House Library/Archive (third floor)
266 Amiri Baraka
109 David Ignatow
111 Donald Hall
107 Donald Hall/Wesley McNair
108 Galway Kinnell
110 Gary Snyder (two videos)
256 Gilbert Sorrentino
273 Kay Boyle
288 Larry Heinemann
248 Lucille Clifton
280 Philip Levine
271 Robert Creeley
270 Sonia Sanchez
274 Victor Hernandez Cruz
077 Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson
084 Voices and Visions: Ezra Pound
073 Voices and Visions: Hart Crane
074 Voices and Visions: Marianne Moore
081 Voices and Visions: Robert Lowell
075 Voices and Visions: Wallace Stevens
072 Voices and Visions: Walt Whitman
281 W. S. Merwin
276 Yehuda Amichai
Joy Harjo
Lucille Clifton
Ernesto Cardenal
Luis J. Rogriguez
Gary Phillips
Eduardo Galeano (2 videos)
Linda Hogan
Gary Soto
Robert Haas
Mark Doty
David Malouf
Eamon Grennan
Edna O’Brien
A.J. Verdelle
Chet Raymo
Gish Jen
Eduardo Galeano/Sebastio Salgado
Wendell Berry/Gary Snyder
Sandra Cisneros
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Walace Shawn
Richard Rod
Li-Young Lee
Scott Russell Sanders
Peter Matthiessen
Jorie Graham
Richard Nelson
Stuart Dybeck