Creating community and connection through poetry

May 12-16, 2026

with keynote speaker Aimee Nezhukumatathil, NYT best-selling nature writer, poet and essayist.

This chapbook captures some of the offerings from the third year of the Festival. The poems included in this chapbook are those shared by the 2025 poets—Judy Kaber, Myronn Hardy, Sal Taylor Kydd, Maya Williams and Beau Williams along with our keynote presenter Jane Hirshfield.

Episode 32 features Meg Weston reading two poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil: “When You are Near, I Turn into a Baja Fairyduster” and “What I Learned in Greenland.” Meg and host John Gillespie go on to discuss the question: What does national poetry month mean to you?

Our writer-in-residence has been chosen: poet, teaching artist and imagination activist Glenis Redmond.