BATH — At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, Patten Free Library will host an evening of poetry as the fifth stop on the journey of the Maine Poetry Express, an initiative of Maine’s poet laureate, Wesley McNair.

Gary Lawless of Nobleboro and Sally Woolf-Wade of New Harbor will be the featured guest poets.

Lawless is co-owner of Gulf of Maine Bookstore in Brunswick, publisher of Blackberry Books, and a widely published poet. He has given readings in Italy, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Cuba, and teaches at Bath Senior College. He lives at Chimney Farm in Nobleboro.

Woolf-Wade has spent most of her adult life teaching school, and 15 summers as mate on the windjammer “Spray,” sailing day-trippers around the Boston Harbor islands. She learned the craft of poetry from better-known poets in a lot of seminars. Her poems have appeared in literary reviews, anthologies, Maine presses, and Wes McNair’s “Take Heart” series. She has participated in local readings, including Gordon Bok’s “Working on the Water” program. She has published two books: “Nightsong” and “Down the Bristol Road.” She is associated with The Pemaquid Poets and The Maine Poets’ Society.

Lawless and Woolf-Wade will be followed by citizen readers Ted Allen, Susan Beegel, Nancy Brown Stump, Louise Bryant, David Ingmundson and Helene McGlauflin, who will each read a favorite Maine poem selected from two anthologies edited by McNair, explaining what the poems mean to them personally.

McNair, who will introduce the event, says that “the primary goal of the Maine Poetry Express is to show that poetry belongs not only to literary specialists but to all of us.”