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Padriag O’Tuama
poet / peace activist
The 2024 Camden Festival Of Poetry Is Coming!
It’s free and open to the public.
Register here.
May 3 – Friday
Colby College Museum Of Art
3-4:30 pm Workshop – Caponigro / Exploring The Colby College Museum Of Art With Poetry – Inquire.
May 8 – Wednesday
The Farnsworth Museum Of Art
11-12:30 pm Workshop – Caponigro / Conversing with Unicorns: Ekphrastic Poetry – Register here.
May 11 – Saturday
The Center For Maine Contemporary Art
11-12:30 pm Workshop – Caponigro / Tripping The Light Ekphrastic Poetry – Register here.
May 17 – Friday
Online
2-4 pm Craft Talk – Padraig O’Tuama / You, You, You; The Address Of Poetry – Register here.
The First Congregational Church Of Camden
55 Elm Street, Camden, Maine
7-9 pm Friday Open Mic Night
May 18 – Saturday
Downtown Camden, Maine
10-12 am Morning Poems On Windows Walk
The First Congregational Church Of Camden
55 Elm Street, Camden, Maine
1-2:30 pm Readings
………………Audrey Minotulu-Le
………………Sandy Weisman
………………Dave Morrison
………………Carol Bachofner
………………Arisa White
………………Jefferson Navicky
………………With music by Chris Ross and Mehuman Johnson
………………Meet Maine poets selling and signing their books.
3-4 pm Workshops
………………John Paul Caponigro – The Art Of Poetry About Art
………………Kathleen Ellis – Thirteen Ways of Starting a Poem
………………Judy Kaber – The Poem on the Page: Understanding Line Breaks
………………Kimberly Ann Priest – Into Wildness: The Untamed Nature Poem
………………Maya Stein – Black Out Poetry
………………Arisa White – Activating Your Nouns and Verbs
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……………..Find out who will win the youth Poet Of Promise Award.
It’s free and open to the public!
Register here.
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Ekphrastic Resources
Notes On Ekphrasis
Content Form Feeling
All The Words Of The Rainbow
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
Yusuf Komunyakaa – Facing It
Anne Sexton – The Starry Night
Literary Journals
The Ekphrastic Review
Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge
Responses To My Art
Rattle
The Ekphrastic Review
My Ekphrastic Poetry