The Seep, October 8-20, 2016

Thoughts and Musings

Goddard MFAW faculty Beatrix Gates: There’s a drought here in Maine, and lately I’ve been studying a seep in the backfield. A seep is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the earth’s surface from an underground aquifer and pools in a depression. A seep will be found quickly by wildlife and bring new birds and animals to the area. There is every sign that’s true.

Poetry & Masks Collaboration: Beatrix Gates

Thoughts and Musings

Poetry and masks at the Farm/Arts Exchange in Down East Maine’s Hancock County with Goddard MFAW faculty member Bea Gates and her old friend Ron King–farmer, weaver, queer activist (Stonewall to present day), social worker, and wearer of masks–on Faerie Kingdom Road, King Hill Farm, Penobscot.

Another World in Translation

Thoughts and Musings

Translation is impossible, poet and translator Alastair Reid told us in a small poetry workshop at Antioch College in 1970.  He said you needed to know this, and then do it anyway.  He describes the risk of failure in his poem, Speaking a Foreign Language: “Easy to...