Editor: David Mills
The Lunchtime Fireside Poetry Series at the Rockland Library continues on April 18 and 25.
ROCKLAND, ME - The Lunchtime Fireside Poetry Reading Series, as part of POETRY MONTH ROCKLAND, continues in the Reading Room at the Rockland Public Library April 18 with poets Alan Clark and Ellen Goldsmith.
Poet and writer Alan Clark is the author of Guerrero And Heart's Blood, Where They Know, and three plays: The Beast, The End Of It, and The Couch/The Table/The Bed. His exhibition of paintings from Mexico, Blood and Stone: Paintings by Alan Clark, was at the Farnsworth Art Museum in 2004. His work is on view at Asymmetrick Arts, in Rockland.
Ellen Goldsmith is the author of two chapbooks – Such Distances and No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect which won the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center 1997 chapbook contest and was described by Dennis Nurkse, the contest judge, as an “incandescent collection.” “The Secret of Life” from Such Distances was read by Garrison Keillor on Writer’s Almanac. A resident of Cushing, Ellen Goldsmith is a professor emeritus of The City University of New York.
On April 25, poets Carol Bachofner & Gayle Portnow are featured.
Portnow is a poet who divides her time between NYC and Camden, Maine. She frequently writes about weather and food as evidenced by her two publications: fog and other atmospheric conditions (2010) and Food, However Peripheral (2012). Portnow is a poet of many interests, from weather to cooking to relationships, and has a background in design and photography. Portnow, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives in Camden,
An award-winning poet and teacher of poets, Carol Bachofner is author of three books of poetry, numerous essays, and a writing workbook. Bachofner was recently named a finalist in the 2011 Maine Literary Awards. Carol W. Bachofner, Abenaki writes with a strong sense of place through narrative poetry. Her poems have appeared in such notable journals as Prairie Schooner, CT Review, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream City Review, Naugatuck River Review, and others. Founding editor of Pulse Literary Journal, Bachofner teaches poetry in her community, Rockland, Maine and “on the road” in workshops and conferences. Bachofner was a featured panelist on indigenous literature in the modern age at the Maine Literary Festival in 2009. Bachofner was founder of the Poetry Month Rockland in 2010 and runner-up in the Maine Literary Awards 2011
Special accommodations for persons with disabilities can be made with 48 hours notice. Please call the Library at 594-0310.
This is one in a continuing Thursday series of literary, film and cultural offerings sponsored by the Rockland Public Library & The Friends of the Rockland Public Library. Admission is free.
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