Applications due March 1
for April - October programs
Poetry Express is a collaborative poetry performance program of the Maine Humanities Council and the Maine State Library that brings poetry and poets to your community.
Check out two great examples from 2020:
with Family Violence Project and Samaa Abdurraqib | with Kifah Abdulla
- Apply now
This year’s programs will likely all be online and should take place between April and October 2021. - We are especially looking for applications from partners who recently hosted a Discussion Project and would like to host a Poetry Express performance as a next step.
- MHC partners with a community and a local poet who identify important community themes.
- The Maine State Library provides curated resources, anthologies, and collections of Maine poetry—from the historical to the contemporary—that touch on the community’s themes.
- Community members select Maine poems, learn to perform those poems in a workshop with a local poet, and host a community poetry reading and conversation event.
