Enjoy The 2024 Camden Festival Of Poetry

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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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4 pm               Keynote Padriag O’ Tuama
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……………..Find out who will win the youth Poet Of Promise Award.

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It’s free and open to the public!
Register here.

Celebrate The Earth With Our EcoPoetry Reading

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“Malama ‘Aina” – Honor The Earth

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This year The Poets Corner’s Eco-Poetry reading will feature 12 poems juried by cohosts John Paul Caponigro and Meg Weston.

In Why Ecopoetry? There’s No Planet B John Shoptaw states, “Ecopoetry is nature poetry that has designs on us, that imagines changing the ways we think, feel about, and live and act in the world.” He goes on to state that eco-poems are both environmental and environmentalist.

For this reading, we looked for poems that help us see the earth anew. Without being didactic or moralistic, our poems can express our concerns about our impact on our planet alongside our sense of awe and reverence for nature, wilderness, and the wonders of this world we live in.

Celebrate Earth Day and come hear this inspiring gathering of voices.

Register here.

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.