Join us for a reading and a conversation with the 2026 Chapbook Competition winner Laura Candler, hosted by our contest judge, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

“Common Name: These poems keep turning toward the world—toward the child’s voice, the river’s body, the small, bright pop of a flower—and in that turning, they make a place where wonder and worry can stand side by side without shame. They remind us that close attention is its own kind of devotion, that to name what is fragile, fleeting, and alive means to love it more fully.”

—Aimee Nezhukumatathil,
poet, essayist and 2026 Chapbook contest judge

The 2026 Chapbook Competition was a collaboration between The Poets Corner, Toad Hall Editions, and the Camden Festival of Poetry.

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