BANGOR – One of Maine’s best-known literary figures will lead the bill Wednesday night, July 28, in a two-man poetry reading at Borders Books, Music and Cafe. Wesley McNair, a professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, and Kurt Brown of New York City will read from their works beginning at 7 p.m. in the latest installment of Borders’ ongoing 2K4 Poetry Series.

McNair’s books of poetry include “Fire,” “Talking in the Dark” and “My Brother Running,” and he recently collaborated with Robert Kimber and Bill Roorbach on “A Place on Water: Essays,” published by Tilbury House of Gardiner. His next collection, “The Ghosts of You and Me,” is scheduled to be published by David R. Godine. McNair directs UMF’s creative writing program and has received a number of prestigious awards, including Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Sarah Josepha Hale Award given by the trustees of Richards Free Library of New-

port, N.H., and the Theodore Roethke Prize for poetry.

Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers’ Conference in Aspen, Colo., and presently teaches part time at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. His books of poetry include “Fables from the Ark,” “More Things in Heaven and Earth” and “Return of the Prodigals,” and his next collection, “Future Ship,” is due to be published next year. He also has edited several books, including “Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics.” His schedule this summer also includes a reading at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Writers Conference in Freeport.

Earlier this month, Borders hosted Gerald Stern and Ann Marie Macari in its 2K4 Poetry Series, and a September reading is planned by David Brainerd and Husson College professor Leon Raikes. For information about the 2K4 readings, contact Borders manager Troy Michael Casa at 990-3300.

Dana Wilde can be reached at dana.wilde@umit.maine.edu.