EAC Prize for Poetry Reception

A book launch, reading, and celebration for the Eastport Arts Center’s Charles Moore Prize for Poetry will be held on Saturday, August 24, 6-8 pm, downstairs at the EAC. The event will include readings by Washington County poets who submitted poems to the contest, a formal announcement of the winners in both adult and youth categories, and light refreshments.

The published anthology, Connecting Nature, which includes all qualified submissions to the 2024 contest, will be available for purchase at the event.

Each year, two Maine poets are invited to judge the contest. This year’s judges are, for the youth division, Molly McDonald, an Eastport poet and member of the English faculty at Washington County Community College, and for the adult division, Jeri Theriault of Waterville, a poet and collage artist whose most recent book of poetry is Self-Portrait as Homestead (Deerbrook Editions). For ultimate fairness in the judging, the poems…