FREE. Pre-registration required.
Our beloved annual Poetry Crawl, from the comfort of your own home! Join us for readings from four outstanding poets.
Stuart Kestenbaum (top left) is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Things Seemed to Be Breaking (Deerbrook Editions 2021), and a collection of essays The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press). He was the host of the Maine Public Radio program Poems from Here and the host/curator of the podcasts Make/Time and Voices of the Future. He was the director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts from 1988 until 2015. More recently, working with the Libra Foundation, he has designed and implemented a residency program for artists and writers called Monson Arts. He served as Maine’s poet laureate from 2016-2021.
Arisa White (bottom left) is author of Who's Your Daddy (2021), a poetic memoir, co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, a middle-grade biography in verse and second book in the Fighting for Justice series, and co-editor of Home is Where you Queer Your Heart (2021). A Cave Canem fellow, she has received numerous awards and is currently Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College.
Maya Williams (she/hers, they/them, and ey/em)(top right) is a religious queer Black Mixed Race suicide survivor constantly writing poems. In 2018 they were a finalist of the Slam Free Or Die Qualifier National Poetry Slam team and a runner up of the Individual Slam. Maya was a semi-finalist for Nimrod International Journal's Francine Ringold Award, a finalist for Best of the Net in 2019, and finalist for MWPA’s Chapbook Contest in 2019.
Tim Seibles (bottom right) is former Poet Laureate of Virginia (2016-2018), Professor at Old Dominion University, and the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, One Turn Around the Sun and Fast Animal, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His honors include an Open Voice Award, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
