Plunkett Poetry Festival is April 28, in-person and on Zoom

AUGUSTA – The Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival, which celebrates emerging and established poets, will be held on Friday, April 28.
The festival is free and open to the public, but registration is required. It will be held in person, 2-9 p.m., at the University of Maine in Augusta, Bennett D. Katz Library, 46 University Drive. The event will also be live-streamed on Zoom.
Poet Molly McCully Brown will be featured guest of the festival, and present an afternoon master class as well as be keynote speaker at the evening session.
There will also be a panel discussion in disability visibility with poets Betsy Sholl, Alisha Goldblatt, and Jason Whitney, who will read from their work and discuss how their poems and life experiences intersect with the theme.
A free group dinner will be held between the afternoon panel discussion and the evening program. The meal allows poets and others to connect and rekindle connections and flare creative sparks.
The festival also will present awards to University of Maine System undergraduate winners of the Student Poetry Contest. Recognized students will read their work in the evening.
The Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival is held in April every year. It was established in 2002 to honor the memory and accomplishments of Terry Plunkett, an English professor at UMA for 30 years.
For a full schedule and to register for any part of the program, or to get the Zoom link, visit www.uma.edu/plunkett.