Thursday April 23
7:00 at Blue Hill Public Library

5 Parker Point Road
Blue Hill, Maine 04614

co-sponsored by Blue Hill Public Library

 

Belfast Authors Linda Buckmaster and Elizabeth Garber have been “writing buddies” for over fifteen years. With the publication of Linda’s fourth book, Journey Waters. Poems, Prose, Places, she and Elizabeth will be talking about their parallel writing careers over the years—supporting each other, sharing research, building a writing community in Maine, writing for publication, DIY writers’ retreats, and their individual terms as Belfast Poets Laureate. They will describe their
different writing approaches and read from their work.

 

Linda Buckmaster’s writing is an engagement with geography that binds land, people, culture, and time in relation to the natural world. Her poetry, essay, and fiction have appeared in more than forty journals. Two of her essays were name Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2013, 2020, and she has been a Finalist multiple years for a Maine Literary Award. Linda has published four books including poetry, essay, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent is Journey Waters: Poems, Prose, Places, a retrospective of twenty-two years of writing. www.lindabuckmaster.com

 

Elizabeth W. Garber is the author of Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year (2022), and Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect’s Daughter (2018). She has published three books of poetry: True Affections (2012), Listening Inside the Dance (2005), and Pierced by the Seasons (2004). Maine (Island Time) (2013) is a collaboration of her poetry with paintings and photographs of Michael Weymouth. Her essays and excerpts and poems have been included in several journals and anthologies. Three of her poems were read on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. www.elizabethgarber.com.