FMI Contact Jonas Werner
Email info@freeportfolio.org

Freeport, Maine — Freeport Folio, a new community poetry initiative, is proud to announce the return of its quarterly open mic poetry series this New Year with Rockland Poet Laureate of Scottish and Abenaki descent, Carol Willitte Bachofner.

The event will take place Saturday, January 17th from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM in the Bradley Room at Freeport Community Services, 53 Depot Street, Freeport. The event is free and open to the public with open mic sign-ups available at the door.  We welcome students, seasoned poets, first-time readers and those who want to bask in the power of poetry and the spoken word.

About our Featured Poet: Carol Willette Bachofner

Carol W. Bachofner, is an artist and poet of Abenaki and Scottish lineage, Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine and former president of Maine Poets Society. Her poems have appeared in The Comstock Review, The Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream City Review, and others. Her poetry has been featured in the anthologies Take Heart, Poems From Maine; Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts Concerning the Universe; and Dawnland Voices, an anthology of writings from Indigenous New England (2014). Carol’s poems have even been read into the permanent oral history of Andrew Wyeth at the Farnsworth Art Museum.

Headshot available upon request.