A Multigenre Workshop
Wednesday, February 25, 4:30 to 6:30 PM
In her NYT-bestselling book of essays and award-winning poems, Aimee Nezhukumatathil often explores the natural world, including whale sharks, fireflies, eels, dragonfruit, catalpas, monsoons, humans, and so much more. Using a variety of prompts and centering activities, including read-aloud selections from Nezhukumatathil's work, participants will explore their own astonishments and curiosities related to the world around us and how we move through it. Writers of any and all backgrounds and levels of experience are welcome!
This FREE workshop is a collaboration between the Camden Festival of Poetry, the MWPA, and the Edythe Dyer Library in Hampden. There will be ten of these workshops, each led by a different writer and happening during the winter and spring in locations around the state and on Zoom. Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be the keynote speaker at the Camden Festival of Poetry on May 12-16, 2026.
Free! Registration is required.
Robin Clifford Wood is the author of the award-winning biography-memoir hybrid, The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine. In addition to publishing poetry and non-fiction in several trade and literary magazines, she published five years of columns for the Bangor Daily News featuring stories about the people of Maine. Her current column, Maine Reads, Maine Writes, appears in the Bangor Metro. Wood spent five years as a writing professor at Husson University, and has taught writing at the graduate level and for senior college. She has degrees from Yale (BA), Univ. of Rochester (MA in English), and Univ. of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program (MFA in creative writing). Wood and her husband of 42 years live in central Maine where they enjoy the comings and goings of a delightful horde of children, in-laws, granddogs, and grandchildren.
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