Maine Poets Receive 2007 Dibner Writing Fellowships

The Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship in poetry has been awarded to Sarah Boucher of Augusta, Glenn Morazzini of Cumberland and Douglas H. Woodsum of Smithfield. The Maine Community Foundation awards the fellowships annually to promising Maine writers seeking to develop their writing skills.

Boucher attended the University of Vermont and College of the Atlantic where she received a Master of Philosophy in Human Ecology degree. Her thesis combined poetry and science. She will be working on a manuscript of her poems, some of which have appeared in COA Magazine.

A graduate of Connecticut College and the Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing Program at USM, Morazzini is a licensed clinical social worker with an independent practice. His poems have appeared in Poet Lore, North American Poetry Review, Nimrod and Rattle. He plans to attend a writer’s conference with his fellowship award.

Woodsum holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MA from Denver University and an MFA from the University of Michigan. He has taught English at Messalonskee High School since 1995. His poems have appeared in Maine Times, Prairie Schooner, The Beloit Poetry Journal and Kennebec, among other publications. His Dibner award will help defray the cost of attending a writer’s conference.

This year’s judges were poets Dawn Potter, author of Boy Land, George Van Deventer, editor of Off the Coast, and Elizabeth Tibbetts, author of In the Well. Tibbetts is a former Dibner Fellow.