Since 2017, the Poetry Crawl through Blue Hill village has been a much-loved facet of Word, Blue Hill’s Oct. 22-25 literary arts festival. In Word’s tenth festival, the public is invited to hear a poet or two in each of four Blue Hill locations on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 24.

2:30-2:50: Dawn Potter at Blue Hill Books.
3:05-3:25: Nyamuon “Moon” Ngyany Machar at Shaw Institute
3:40-4:00: Maya Stein at the Murphy Trail (accessed behind Blue Hill Congregational Church)
4:10-5:10: Gibson Faye-LeBlanc & Stuart Kestenbaum inside the church

Maine’s poet laureate, Dawn Potter is author or editor of 10 books of prose and poetry. Moon Machar is a South-Sudanese-American poet, filmmaker, and community leader. Maya Stein is Belfast’s 2023-25 poet laureate and directs the Belfast Poetry Festival. Author of two poetry collections, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc directs the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Stuart Kestenbaum, Maine’s 2016-21 poet laureate, is the author of six collections of poems.

Information: wordfestival.org or 374-5632.