If you enjoy fine wine, good food, beautiful music and stimulating poetry, then you’ll not want to miss the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library’s 2nd Annual Poetry of Wine event at Mine Oyster on Sept. 13, at 6 p.m.

Plan on a casually elegant evening. Music will be provided by local favorite Dave Gagne as you stroll from table to table with wines and food from around the world for your tasting. Wines will also be available for purchase.

Local poets will be reading poetry during the evening, with Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair as the guest of honor.

McNair will read from his award winning work and discuss the special legacy Maine poets have created for us all. He was recently selected for a United States Artists Fellowship as one of “America’s finest living artists.”

His poetry has been featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and 21 times on Garrison Keillor’s “Writers Almanac.” He is the author of nine volumes of poems and twenty books, including poetry, nonfiction, and edited anthologies. His most recent books are “The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry” (2012), “Lovers of the Lost: New and Selected Poems” (2010) and “The Lost Child” (2014), a new collection of poetry. Autographed copies will be available for sale.

The event is part of the library’s fundraising efforts to help meet its Annual Appeal goal for 2014/15. This year we need to reach $75,000, which is 30 percent of the budget. Tickets for the event will be available at the library for $40 a person ($45 at the door). Call the library at 207-633-3112 for more information, or email at bbhlibrary@bmpl.lib.me.us.

Special thanks go to Ralph and Elena Smith of McSeagull’s who are providing the food, and Mine Oyster location as part of their support of the library. Come join us for a fun wine tasting event and enriching evening while continuing to support the important work the library provides to the communities of the Boothbay peninsula.