The Bookmark will host a celebration of UPEI Professor Emeritus Brent MacLaine’s contributions to the PEI literary community. The evening, which will be co-hosted by UPEI Professor Emeritus Richard Lemm and PEI Poet Laureate Bren Simmers, will include readings of Dr. MacLaine's poetry by other Island writers, colleagues, and friends. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Dr. MacLaine is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at UPEI and the author of six volumes of poetry, including his latest, A Skeptic in Springtime. He grew up in Rice Point, PEI, where he returned after teaching at universities in Vancouver, Edmonton, China, and Singapore. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.