ARTWORD 2021

Please join Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and the Portland Museum of Art for ARTWORD 2021, a reading and celebration of the long, intimate relationship between poetry and visual art.

Earlier in the year, more than 60 poets wrote and submitted poems inspired by various artworks at the Portland Museum of Art. On April 13 and April 21 at 7 p.m., 25 of these poets will present their poems in two hour-long free, digital programs that remind us how poems and visual art speak to each other. 

ARTWORD was created in collaboration with beloved poet, teacher, activist, and MWPA co-founder Lee Sharkey (1945–2020), and this program continues in her honor. 

Watch the recording from Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The poets include Sherry Abaldo, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Linda Buckmaster, Lillian Felsenthal, Annaliese Jakimides, Judy Kaber, Carl Little, Leslie Moore, Craig Sipe, David Stankiewicz, Martin Steingesser, Meghan Sterling, and Nancy Walters. 

Watch the recording from Wednesday, April 21, 2021

The poets include Linda Aldrich, Mike Bove, Anne Cyr, Katherine Ferrier, Judith Grey, Éireann Lorsung, Jefferson Navicky, Dorson Plourde, Julie Poitras Santos, Kenneth Rosen, Janet Stebbins, and Jeri Theriault.