All Upcoming Freeport Folio Events
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Join Lynne Schmidt, the 2025 Maine Literary Arts Fellow, in the exploration of pet love and pet loss. Participants are encouraged to bring photos of their current and lost loves, whether feathered, furry, or scales. Each person will walk away with a 10 Prompts for Processing Pet Grief Handout to help guide their journey beyond this workshop.
Freeport Community Library
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Pressure Makes Diamonds
The most challenging thing I find as a poet is finding the needed pressure to create new work. Two of the most productive periods of my poetry life had some element of a deadline. The first period was meeting with a group of good poets each Monday evening at The Poetry Society of America in New York City. The moment the workshop ended, the clock began ticking for the following week. And the second period was the two years I worked on my MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. You wanted to show up for Marie Howe’s workshop ready to roll!
In this workshop, “Pressure Makes Diamonds,” we will use the pressure of workshopping an original poem and then reading that poem at an open mike that same evening. I will provide prompts and each student will get a typewriter if they would like to experience what it was like pre computers. As a Barnum and Bailey Ring Master would yell out when a rogue elephant dashed for the exits: “The Show Must Go On!” or in our case: “Poems Must Be Read!”
Joseph Coleman’s poems have appeared in: Esquire, The New Yorker, The Northern New England Review, Variant Literature, The New Criterion, Casa Vogue.
Freeport Community Library
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Join local poets and workshop participants for a poetry reading at the Freeport Community Library. Hear the winning poems from our Community Poetry Competition.
Freeport Community Library
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A State of Maine National Poetry Grand Finale Event: a never-been-done-before reading by ALL of the Maine Poets Laureate to be held in Freeport.
A partnership of Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and Freeport Folio.
Meetinghouse Arts
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“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.”
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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. “About The Author
Samaa Abdurraqib, PhD, lives, writes, and loves in Wabanaki Territory. She is the editor of From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast (2023). Her poetry has appeared in Cider Press Review, Obsidian, Big Wing Review, and the collection Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic (2022). Samaa is a certified Maine Master Naturalist. She is always listening for birdsong.” (Diode Editions Publishing)
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Join us for a head to head poetry slam style competition between the world’s greatest dead poets represented by local celebs and other poetry lovers. Costumes optional. This is a fund raiser to keep Poetry in Freeport Free.
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