An ekphrastic poetry collaboration between The Poets Corner and Page Gallery in Camden, Maine. Making connections between visual art and poetry to deepen our experience.
Hear readings from the ten poets whose poems, inspired by the work on exhibition at Page Gallery, were chosen by The Poets Corner to be shared at this event.
Join Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama and American poet Laura Reece Hogan together with Australian writer Stephanie Dowrick for a conversation about Rilke’s poems, hosted by the award-winning Rilke translator, scholar, and poet Mark S. Burrows. Each will read and talk about poems that have influenced their lives and work, probing what Rilke called “words ripening in the silences.”
In celebration of summer, hear from a variety of readers who read for our the first OPEN MIC on The Poets Corner. Hosted by the fabulous Elvis and the Mopes, this was truly a reading to remember!
Richard Blanco, Tess Taylor, and Rick Barot joined The Poets Corner to kick off Maine Media’s The Writers Harbor® Poetry Week. These three amazing poets joined us in celebration of the one year anniversary of The Poets Corner.
"We do not speak with one voice but with many."
Enough! edited by Claire Millikin and Agnes Bushell, is a collection of poems, by Maine poets, about resistance and protest. Ten poets from this collection joined The Poets Corner to read on April 11th: Claire Millikin, Donna Loring, Laura Bonazzoli, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Ellen Goldsmith, Lois Anne, Carol Bachofner, Meghan Sterling, Kathleen Ellis, and Myronn Hardy.
For "The Art of the Book" on The Poets Corner, Cig Harvey, Richard Reitz Smith, and Meg Weston read from their work and discussed book design, creation, and publishing.
LOVE UNMASKED: a Valentine's Day reading.
The Poets Corner received almost 100 submissions and curated selections based on different aspects of love, welcoming a diversity of voices, ideas, and approaches into the mix. A total of 17 readers were selected for this event.
Natalie Goldberg, author of fifteen books including the best-seller Writing Down the Bones and recently released Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage Into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku, reads on The Poets Corner to kick off the New Year 2021. Joining her are five accomplished writers who have worked with Natalie for many years: Carolyn Cervantes Antonio, Dara Kalima Marsh, Armely Maras, Dorotea Mendoza, and Aomawa Shields.
