Digging In: Poetry on Life, Loss and Renewal – A Reading and Signing by Mary Brancaccio and Ellen Goldsmith

The Camden Public Library is delighted to welcome poets Mary Brancaccio and Ellen Goldsmith on Saturday, August 12, at 3:00 p.m. in the Picker Room for a poetry reading and signing titled, “Digging In: Poetry on Life, Loss, and Renewal.” Mary Brancaccio will be reading from her book Fierce Geometry, and Ellen Goldsmith will be reading from her collection Left Foot, Right Foot. This event is free, open to the public, and does not require pre-registration.

Earlier in the day on August 12 at 10:30 a.m., Mary Brancaccio and Ellen Goldsmith will lead the poetry workshop “Breaking the Silence: Writing Toward Healing and Resilience.” Learn more and register for a limited spot here. The workshop requires pre-registration and is limited to 12 participants.

Mary Brancaccio is the author of Fierce Geometry, published by Get Fresh Books Publishing.  Her poetry has appeared in Naugatuck River Review, Minerva Rising, and Edison Literary Review, Adana Literary Journal, among others. She has an MFA in Poetry and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Brancaccio’s poetry is also included in Writing the Land: Maine and Writing the Land: Northeast, as well as two international anthologies of poetry. Her website is ghostgirlpoet.com.

Ellen Goldsmith is the author of Left Foot, Right Foot, Where to Look, Such Distances and No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect, winner of the 1997 Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including The Healing Muse, Intima, Off the Coast and The Westchester Review as well as the anthologies Wait: Poems from the Pandemic and Enough: Poems of Resistance and Protest. Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York, she lives in Cushing, Maine.