Spencer Reece, an episcopal priest and a poet who has lived in Spain, Honduras, Connecticut and now Rhode Island, and Matt Daly, creative writing teacher and poet from Wyoming, zoom in together from Wyoming for this reading.
Rilke’s poems and writing remind us of what it means to “bear witness” to life in those “dark hours” we face when we experience things “falling asunder.” He also invites us to “dance the orange,” celebrating the exuberant beauty that shines, even in the darkness.
Award-winning Rilke translator and poet, Mark S. Burrows, is joined by poets Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marie Howe to share selected Rilke poems.
For this collaborative, creative event, poets submitted poems written in response to a painting or photograph in the Page Gallery exhibition: Art & Ekphrastic Poetry.
Ten poets were selected to read on The Poets Corner zoom event on Sunday, November 12th; another ten poems were selected by the artists and read live in the gallery on Saturday, November 18th, 2023.
Meg Weston reads from her first full-length collection of poems, Magma Intrusions, along with Betsy Sholl, former Maine Poet Laureate, who reads from her tenth collection, As If a Song Could Save You. The readings are followed by a conversation about the obsessions and harmonies in their poems; poetic influences and writing practices; and other topics that intrigue us as poets.
Join us as Kathleen Ellis reads from her new book Body of Evidence, winner of the 2022 Grayson Books Poetry Contest, and Claire Millikin reads from Elegiaca Americana and Transitional Objects - her two books just published in the past six months.
Join poets Katherine Hagopian Berry, Sonia Greenfield, Abby Murray and Meghan Sterling as they look closely at the role of mother, reading their poems that celebrate, and reveal, the complex experience of motherhood.
In 2023 our Eco-Poetry reading was open for submissions. Poems were selected to be read on The Poets Corner with John Paul Caponigro and Meg Weston as co-hosts.
The Poets Corner welcomes Mark S. Burrows to present his newly published volume of poems by the German-Jewish poet Hilde Domin (1909 – 2006), The Wandering Radiance: Selected Poems of Hilde Domin.
What does it mean to live with hospitality towards others? To go back to a place where we’ve been betrayed and create beauty?What more daring thing can we do after facing horror and trauma than to make art?How does our longing for "homeland" bring us hope, even in exile?
Guests were in for a treat as these two Maine writers—Morgan Talty and Laura Bonazzoli—shared with us the pleasures that flow from their short stories. While each story stands alone, together each of these books forms a story-cycle revealing new truths and enhancing our understanding of people and place.
2023’s annual Valentine’s Day reading is LOVE LETTERS – submissions of epistolary poems. This follows an ancient tradition since some of the earliest forms of epistolary poems, or poems that read as letters, were love letters such as Ovid’s Heroides—love letters from the great women of antiquity. Hear poems selected for originality, wit, humor, pathos, and passion, but not sentimentality, on The Poets Corner.
The stars shine on The Poets Corner with an event featuring filmmaker Tara Roberts Zabriskie who documented Maine’s efforts to “save the stars” in her film “Defending the Dark.” We show a trailer from the film, and hear about the efforts of Dark Sky Maine.
