BRUNSWICK — The town has celebrated its favorite literary son for 15 winters.

This year, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has company.

Longfellow Days is held each February, the month of the famed poet’s 1807 birth. As Longfellow was influenced by those who came before him, there were many poets inspired in turn by him, and this year’s celebration expands its focus to include three Pulitzer Prize-winners from Maine: Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955), Laura E. Richards (1850-1943), and Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935).

Readings, lectures, films and exhibits will be held throughout the month to laud those poets.

The event is co-chaired by founder Maryli Tiemann, along with Amy E. Waterman. Part of its ongoing appeal is the variety of offerings, Waterman said in an interview Monday.

“Different pieces of it appeal to different crowds,” she explained. “There are a lot of literary enthusiasts around, and I also think doing something fun and sort of cozy in February really is an appeal.”

Waterman noted the Coursen Series of fireside Sunday poetry readings at Curtis Memorial Library, where refreshments are also made available.

“Brunswick is proud of that Longfellow legacy, although he obviously was a Portland and Cambridge (Massachusetts) man as well,” she said.

Born in Portland, Longfellow continued to live in the city during his first year at Bowdoin College, where he enrolled in 1821. He spent the remaining three years on the Brunswick campus, graduating in 1825 among such luminaries as author Nathaniel Hawthorne, according to a biography at hwlongfellow.org.

After a few years traveling and studying in Europe, Longfellow returned to Bowdoin, where he taught French, Spanish and Italian from 1829-35.

His marks on Brunswick remain today: a commemorative plaque within a Maine Street sidewalk; a portrait hanging in the Bowdoin library; a Bible he signed and donated to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street.

All Longfellow Days events, programmed by the Brunswick Downtown Association, are open to the public at no charge.

Among the month’s offerings is the Coursen Series, named for poet and Longfellow Days enthusiast Herbert Coursen. Twelve regional poets will give readings beginning at 1 p.m. on four Sundays: Dawn Potter, Judith Robbins and Reid Urban on Feb. 3; Mike Bove, Colin Cheney and Cyndle Plaisted Rials on Feb. 10; Adrian Blevins, Jason Whitney and meg willing on Feb. 17; and Alan Clark, Thomas Moore and Mihku Paul, Feb. 24.

Sunday, Feb. 16 will see a screening of the Shirley Temple film “Captain January,” based on a Richards novel, at the Smith Auditorium in Sills Hall on the Bowdoin campus at 11 a.m. There will also be tours of the Longfellow Rooms at the Pejepscot Historical Society’s Joshua Chamberlain Museum at 1 and 2 pm.

Gary Lawless, a poet and bookstore owner, will host a public read-in at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18. The Brunswick Inn on Park Row event examines the works of Gardiner resident Robinson, known for his poem “Richard Cory.”

The Maine Historical Society’s John Babin presents two talks on Longfellow’s literary connections. “Longfellow Leading the Way,” on Wednesday, Feb. 20, is part of the Midcoast Senior College’s Winter Wisdom Program, held at 12:15 p.m. in the Morrell Room at Curtis Memorial Library.

Babin at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, will discuss Longfellow’s relationships with other writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne as one of four events at the Unitarian Universalist Church.

With Maine’s 200th birthday coming up next year, University of Maine Professor Liam Riordan will at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 discuss the role Longfellow’s relatives played when Maine became a state.

The Rev. Sylvia Stocker will lead a literary chapel service at 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 that focuses on Coffin, including readings and remarks by the Brunswick man’s great-nephew Pete Coffin.

The UUC series concludes at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a Longfellow birthday celebration. Poet Pam Burr Smith will be featured, and there will be an open mic, as well as a birthday cake from Union Street Bakery.

Poetry-sharing workshops will be held throughout February at Thornton Oaks at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, and The Highlands at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19.

Bowdoin College will showcase a display on Coffin, while Curtis Memorial Library will do the same for Robinson and Richards.

Alex Lear can be reached at 780-9085 or alear@theforecaster.net. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.

Four lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Keramos” are inscribed on this sidewalk plaque on Maine Street in Brunswick: “All that inhabit this great earth / Whatever be their rank or worth / Are kindred and allied by birth / And made of the same clay.” The town celebrates the poet throughout February.