Enjoy The 2025 Camden Festival Of Poetry

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Jane Hirshfield
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The 2025 Camden Festival Of Poetry Is Coming!

It’s free and open to the public.

Register here.

 

Enjoy all the pre-festival events!

 

April 3 – Thursday, 1:00-2:30 pm EST
Bates College
Ekphrastic Workshop – John Paul Caponigro & Myronn Hardy

April 23 – Wednesday, 2:30-4 pm EST – Online
Maine Media Workshops
Ekphrastic Workshop – Richard Blanco & John Paul Caponigro
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May 1 – Thursday, Online
The International Photography Hall Of Fame
Ekphrastic Workshop – John Paul Caponigro
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May 7 – Wednesday, 11-12:30 pm EST
The Farnsworth Museum Of Art – Reindigenizing Sacred Landscapes
Ekphrastic Workshop – John Paul Caponigro
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May 9 – Friday, 11-12:30 pm EST
Colby College – Senior Exhibit
Ekphrastic Workshop – Richard Blanco & John Paul Caponigro
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May 13 – Tuesday, 6-8 pm EST
Public Reading – Camden Public

May 15 – Thursday, 7-9 pm EST
The Sonic Cafe: Singer-Songwriter Open Mic Hosted by Rory McBride

May 15 – Thursday, 6-6:45 pm EST
Portland Museum Of Art – Jo Sandman: Skin Deep
Ekphrastic Workshop – John Paul Caponigro
More here.

May 16th – Friday, 2-4 pm EST – Online
Craft Talk – Jane Hirshfield – Information, Invitation, and Insight: Transitions
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May 16th – Friday, 7-9 pm EST
Open Mic 

 

May 17 – Saturday
The Camden Festival Of Poetry
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10-11 am                Morning Poems On Windows Walk

1-1:10 pm                Welcome

1:10-2:10 pm          Maine Poets & Musicians

2:15-3:45 pm         Workshops

3:15-3:45 pm         Book Fair

4-4:15 pm               Awards.

4:15-5:15 pm         Keynote – Living By Poetry – Jane Hirshfield

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It’s free and open to the public!

Register here.

 

Ekphrastic Resources

When Words Make Art Speak

Notes On Ekphrasis

The Ekphrastic Writer

Content Form Feeling

All The Words Of The Rainbow

10 Great Books On Haiku & Haibun

Brevity

How To Write Short

Poems

Homer – The Iliad (Achilles Shield)

W H Auden – The Shield Of Achilles

John Keats – Ode To A Grecian Urn

Rainer Maria Rilke – Archaic Torso Of Apollo + The Story Behind The Poem

William Blake – The Tyger

Anne Sexton – The Starry Night

RIchard Blanco – Cloud Anthem

Richard Blanco – Complaint Of El Rio Grande

Yusuf Komunyakaa – Facing It

Tiana Clark – 50 Lines After Figure (2002) By Glenn Ligon

Dean Rader – Before The Borderless: Dialogs With The Art Of Cy Twombly

Victoria Chang – With My Back To The World 

Essays

James Hillman – Dream Animals

Stephen Jay Gould – Illuminations

Teju Cole – Blindspot 

Literary Journals

The Ekphrastic Review

Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge

Responses To My Art

Rattle 

The Ekphrastic Review

My Ekphrastic Poetry

Free April 23 Online – Maine Media Workshops – Ekphrastic Adventures – Writing In Response To Photography

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April 23 @ 2:30 EST

Humanitarian Medalist Poet Richard Blanco and I offer a free online workshop about creative writing in response to photography.

After sharing some classic examples, we’ll facilitate a series of writing prompts. We’ll feature photographers who teach at Maine Media and who have collaborated with writers in their photography books with publishers like Two Ponds Press.

We’ll finish with a lively Q&A session.

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Free Online May 1 – The International Photography Hall Of Fame – Ekphrastic Adventures – Writing in Response to Photography

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May 1 @ 7 PM EST

Register now free.

I’m offering a free online workshop about creative writing in response to photography.

After sharing some classic writings, I’ll facilitate a series of writing prompts.

In this session, I’ll feature photographs by my late father, who was recently inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame.

We might even have time for a sneak peek of our new book Caponigro Conversations.

We’ll finish with a lively Q&A session.

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Enjoy The Ekphrastic Review’s Writing Challenge With My Antarctic Images

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Deadline – April 15
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Ekphrastic writing is written in response to works of art. The Ekphrastic Review is offering its current writing challenge based on my images. The responses are certain to be surprising and diverse. TER will publish the winning responses online this month.
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I chose these twin images because they’re pivotal in dual series of images, one nonfiction and the other fiction – Antarctica Waking & Antarctica Dreaming. It was breathtaking when we saw it. That ice can look like Greco-Roman architecture still astonishes me. Clearly, I see this image / these images in more than one way … and I’m looking forward to reading about how you see them.
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Write about one or write about both, as you like.
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Plus …
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Join Me For A New Poetry Reading – Ecopoetry / Voices For The Future

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 – 4-5:30 pm EST

I will be cohosting (with Meg Weston) this event and reading my poetry with fellow Maine poets Kathleen Ellis, Gary Lawless, Iris LeCates, and Meghan Sterling in an intergenerational celebration of our place in nature.

Find out more about these poets here.

Each poet will recommend a book, share a favorite poem by another poet, and read their poetry.

A lively Q&A with the audience is sure to follow so bring your burning questions.

Ecopoetry (a relatively new term) offers contemporary views of our complex interrelationships within nature, often exploring ways places influence culture. Sometimes celebratory and sometimes critical, ecopoetry looks closely at personal sensitivity and social change.

Register free now.

The poets of this gathering recommend the following books for finding further inspiration.
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Gary Lawless recommends Henry David Thoreau’s Walking
Kathleen Ellis recommends Carlo Rovelli’s Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
John Paul Caponigro recommends David Hinton’s The Wilds Of Poetry; Adventures In Mind On Landscape
Meghan Sterling John Sibley Williams’ Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
Iris Lecates Bell Hooks’ recommends Appalachian Elegy
Meg Weston recommends Charlotte McConaughy’s Migrations
 
Please consider supporting your local bookstore by contacting Gary Lawless at his Gulf Of Maine Books in Brunswick. gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com or 207-729-5083
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Enjoy My First Poetry Reading With Meg Weston On The Poet’s Corner

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If you missed the live event, now you can see and listen to my first public poetry reading with Meg Weston on The Poet’s Corner.

We share selections of our poetry and collaborative poems, including two in response to each other’s images.

We discuss the relationships between images and words throughout.

View more on The Poet’s Corner.