Beyond the South End

Thomaston Library Poetry Event

Submitted by Joanna Hynd of the Thomaston Library

Local Poet Celebration!

Sunday, April 29th at 2 P.M. in Room 208 in the Thomaston Academy.

Six local poets will read their original work at the Thomaston Public Library in celebration of the end of Poetry Month.

Carol Bachofner

Alan Clark

Chris Fahy

Ellen Goldsmith

Joanna Hynd

Kendall Merriam

Opening the program is well renowned local poet and founder of Rockland's Annual Poetry Month, Carol Bachofner. Bachofner's work has been described by Kathleen Ellis as "Imbued with an acute sense of place, drawn to rivers, finning across ponds, pulled to the sea, every poem welcomes both poet and reader as a long-lost relative."

Poet, playwright, and artist Alan Clark will follow Bachofner. Clark's art work has been displayed at the Farnsworth Art Museum and Asymmetrick Arts. In 2006, new poems appeared in The Caribbean Writer and The Wolf Moon Journal. Clark and Goldsmith will be reading this year together at the Lunchtime Fireside Poetry chats.

Novelist and poet Chris Fahy of Thomaston is the author of many novels and collections of short stories and poetry. In 1999 Fahy won a Grand Prize at the International Poetry Competition sponsored by the Atlanta Review.

Ellen Goldsmith is the winner of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center for the 1997 Chapman Contest and is the facilitator of the "Poetry in Art" workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Her poems have been published in many magazines and journals, including: Bangor Metro, California Quarterly, The Kerf, Off the Coast and Wolf Man Journal.

Joanna Hynd is the youngest of the poets reading. She has been published twice in The Maine Review in 2010 and 2012. She won 2nd place for poetry in the Grady Awards at the University of Maine in 2011 and High Honors for her undergraduate thesis, Metastable Structure, a manuscript of original poems. This will be her fifth public reading.

Closing the program will be the highly prolific Kendall Merriam. Merriam is Rockland's first poet laureate. During Merriam's term as laureate, he distributed poetry throughout the city of Rockland to approximately 100 people every week.

This reading will take place in the Thomaston Public Library section of the Academy building on 60 Main St. in Thomaston. Public parking is located behind the Academy.

In celebration of Poetry Month, the Thomaston Public Library will host two poetry readings in addition to poetry related displays and themes. This event is free and open to all ages. Contact us to find out more: 207-354-24532