A perennial favorite Word Festival event, the Poetry Crawl is online this year! Join us from the comfort of your own home for this extraordinary line-up of poets.
Ekhlas Ahmed is a refugee and activist from Darfur, Sudan. She fled with her family to Egypt and lived there for two years before being resettled in Portland, Maine in 2005. She is the founder of Chance To Advance an organization raising awareness in her community of the violence and needs in Darfur. She is currently working on an autobiography in poetry form.
Linda Aldrich is currently Portland, Maine’s poet laureate and has published two collections of poetry, March and Mad Women and Foothold, with a new book, Ballast, coming this winter. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and her poem “Woman-without-Arms” won the Emily Dickinson Award from Universities West Press.
Colin Cheney is a writer, poet and the author of Here Be Monsters, a National Poetry Series selection. His poems have appeared in publications such as AGNI, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Cheney has received a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is creator and co-host of the podcast Poet in Bangkok.
Deborah Cummins is author of the essay collection, Here and Away: Discovering Home on an Island in Maine, and of three poetry collections: Until They Catch Fire, Counting the Waves, and Beyond the Reach. Her poems and essays have appeared in nine anthologies, in over sixty journals and magazines.
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