Maxime Kunin

Look for Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxime Kunin at the Burlington Book Festival this September. The 85-year-old New Hampshire resident, a former U.S. poet laureate, has been compared to Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop. She’ll read at the Grace Paley Poetry Series on Sunday, September 26, at the Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center.

Burlington Book Festival

Friday to Sunday, September 24-26 in various downtown Burlington venues. Info, 658-3328. www.burlingtonbookfestival.com

Margot Harrison is a consulting editor and film critic at Seven Days. Her film reviews appear every week in the paper and online. In 2024, she won the Jim Ridley Award for arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. Her book reviews have also appeared in the New York Times. She is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, with reviews on the Tomatometer, and the author of five novels, including YA thrillers Only She Came Back and We Made It All Up.