Freeport Folio presents Featured Poet Carol Willette Bachofner. This poet of Scottish and Abenaki descent is also an artist, educator and Rockland Poet Laureate Emerita. Tickets Available HERE.

Freeport Folio presents Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl. Tickets Available January 17th at 2:30 PM at Eventbrite

“Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry, including his most recent, Homeland of My Body, which reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geographical, tangible place that merely exist outside us, but rather, within us.”

We are so pleased the delightful poet Samaa Abdurraqib, the Executive Director of the Maine Humanities Council, will be our Featured Poet for the event.