Please join Print: A Bookstore, MWPA, and Mechanics’ Hall for a celebration of Maine winter through poetry.

The poems in Mike Bove’s newest collection, EYE, were written over the course of a nor’easter that buried Southern Maine in heavy snow. Meditations on memory, grief, family, and nature, they reveal the power of icy weather to inspire reflection and exploration.

Part poetry reading, part conversation, this event will feature Mike in poetic discussion with six acclaimed Maine poets, joining together in warm, wintry community.

To register, please click here.

The first Portland Poetry Festival, hosted by Littoral Books, Hole in the Head Review and Back Cove Books, will be held on Saturday, October 7, 10 AM to 6 PM, at Odd Fellows Hall, 651 Forest Ave, above Back Cove Books. All events are free and open to the public.

 The Portland Poetry Festival, coinciding with Littoral’s fifth anniversary, will be a celebration of Maine poetry. The morning will be devoted to poetry writing workshops for children led by poet Katherine Hagopian Berry.

 The afternoon will include a number of scheduled events:

– readings by sixteen Maine poets

– the announcement of the finalists for Hole in the Head Review’s Charles Simic Poetry Prize

– a panel discussion on “The Role of Poetry in This Dangerous New World”

– a performance by members of the group “Songs from Here” of a poem by the late poet, Jacqueline Moore

– and a reading of some of Moore’s poems from her collection Chasing the Grass.

 In between these scheduled events there will be ample time for refreshments, book signings, and informal conversations.