Ceremony for vets

The ceremony for Veterans Day will begin at 11 a.m., on Memorial Green, in front of Town Hall.

Parking ban

starts Tuesday

The on-street winter parking ban will be in effect from Tuesday, Nov. 15 to Saturday, April 15, 2017.

Poetry workshop

for ages 50-plus

Martin Steingesser, Portland’s first poet laureate, is leading a series of poetry-writing workshops, “Seeing With the Heart’s Ear,” on Mondays, Nov. 14 and 28, and Dec. 5, from 6-8 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St. Thee workshops offer inspiration and opportunity for participants to be more aware, more conscious, while providing new tools, or new ways to use old ones, to serve that consciousness in expressive ways. The aim is to encourage and nurture stronger, clearer and expressive writing and poetry.

The series is limited to 12 participants, and they must be 50 or older to participate. The series is funded by a Creative Aging Grant from the Maine Arts Commission.

Those interested should sign up at the Merrill Memorial Library Circulation Desk or call 846-4763.

Group’s next book,

‘Boy, Snow, Bird’

“Boy, Snow, Bird,” a novel by Helen Oyeyemi, is the next Reader’s Circle selection and will be discussed Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m., at Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St.

In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives in a small town in Massachusetts looking, she believes, for beauty, the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries Arturo Whitman, a local widower, and becomes stepmother to his daughter, Snow, and then gives birth to Bird, whose dark skin exposes the Whitmans as light-skinned African-Americans passing for white.