Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7 PM
Fallout Shelter at Waterfall Arts (256 High Street)
Host: Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, MWPA Board President/Portland Poet Laureate
There is an ancient Latin proverb that states littera scripta manet: the written word remains. While Maine has lost several revered poets in recent years, their poetry remains.
At this year’s Belfast Poetry Festival, the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is pleased to celebrate the work of several Maine poets who have recently passed, including Kate Barnes, Henry Braun, Theodore Enslin, Kenneth Frost, Russell Libby, and Michael Macklin.
Reading the work of these poets will be a group of distinguished poets and literary folk in their own right, including Michael Alpert, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Carolyn Gelland, Gary Lawless, Lee Sharkey, and Elizabeth Tibbetts.
“…O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,
But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,
Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes,
With loaded arms I come, pouring for you,
For you and the coffins all of you O death…”
From “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” by Walt Whitman
Kate Barnes (Elizabeth Tibbetts)
Henry Braun (Lee Sharkey)
Theodore Enslin (Michael Alpert)
Kenneth Frost (Carolyn Gelland)
Russell Libby (Gary Lawless)
Michael Macklin (Gibson Fay-LeBlanc)
