Word’s popular Poetry Crawl returns! Join us on an easy walk around Blue Hill village to hear a sequence of readings by remarkable poets, one poet at each of five local venues. There are 15 minute between readings to allow for relocating to the next venue. Dress warmly. The out-of-doors locations have an indoor alternative if weather is inclement.
2:30-2:50 Blue Hill Books: John Reinhart
3:05-3:25 Shaw Institute: Annaliese Jakimides
3:40-4:00 Juniper: Ed Go
4:15-4:35 John Murphy Trail: Christian Barter
4:50-5:10 Congregational Church: melissa goodrum
Note: The John Murphy Trail can be accessed behind the Congregational Church
Free event
A time traveling arsonist, John Reinhart writes in ashes by candlelight. Editor of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's quarterly journal Star*Line and winner of the Horror Writers Association Dark Poetry Scholarship, Reinhart’s poetry ranges from heartfelt to heart-wrenching to robots in space with no hearts. His latest collection is How to Ride a Turtle Through a Time Vortex (Arson Press, 2025). Find more of his work at http://home.hampshire.edu/~jcr00/reinhart.html
Annaliese Jakimides makes poems, art, and stories (true and un), from her memory bank of scrappy Boston, her first-generation refugee family, decades living on the land in northern Maine, her New Orleans musician love, and more. She’s published 1,000+ short-works in magazines (Utne, GQ), journals (Beloit,Consequence), and anthologies (MLA winners Breaking Bread, Alive to This), and on NPR. Cited in national competitions, Pushcart, and Best of the Nets, the four-time MLA finalist is cofounder of the Belfast Poetry Festival, serves on MWPA’s Community Advisory Board, cowrote the musical Love Affair, and is, for the first time, at work on a book-length project. annaliesejakimides.com.
Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut. A former video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer and mystery shopper, Ed Go currently lives and works as a teacher in Brooklyn, NY. His writings have been published in various online print journals, anthologies and a chapbook, Deleted Scenes from the Autobiography of Ed Go as told by Napoleon Id (Other Rooms Press, 2014), and “new machines,” a sequence of twenty-one prose poems in the anthology Urgent Bards (Urbantgarde Press, 2016). https://edgosblog.wordpress.com/
Christian Barter’s fourth book of poetry, The Ends, is published by Littoral Books. He has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Maine Literary Award for Poetry, the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions, and he was the Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park. For over thirty years he has worked for the Acadia trail crew as a stone worker, rigger, arborist and supervisor https://www.christianbarterpoetry.org
melissa christine goodrum is the editor of four print anthologies and the author of two full-length poetry collections: definitions uprising (NY Quarterly Press) and something sweet & filled with blood (great weather for MEDIA). Her poetic experiences include the poetry editorial staff at Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Workshop Leader for the Safe Return Project, Writing Teacher at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Administrative Director of Bowery Arts & Science, Pushcart Nominee, and the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. https://creativeurgency.wixsite.com/mcgoodrum