Creating community and connection through poetry

May 12-16, 2026

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

A chapbook to capture some of the offerings of the third year of the Camden Festival of Poetry. The poems included in this chapbook are those shared by the poets of 2025—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 Nezhukumatahil: “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?

Applications for the first annual Camden Festival Residency open on September 15, 2025.