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Gary Lawless will be speaking at the Camden Public Library on Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. on "Listening to the Heart of the World: Poetry and Spirituality Across All Borders." The library is co-sponsoring this event with Camden Conference Community Events. Lawless's appearance is also in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Gary Lawless was one of the founding members of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He has published 14 collections of poetry in the United States and 3 collections in Italy. He has had poems translated into 8 languages. Much of his writing is about environmental and social justice, and listening to the voices of the underprivileged and overlooked.

He currently lives at Chimney Farm, the Maine farm of writers Henry Beston and Elizabeth Coatsworth, now owned by their daughter Kate Barnes, Maine's first poet laureate.

Lawless was born in Belfast, Maine in 1951. Following graduation from Colby he traveled to California to study as apprentice at the home of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Gary Snyder. He returned to Maine and started working in bookstores. He and Elizabeth Leonard opened Gulf of Maine Bookstore in Brunswick, Maine, in 1979, and still operate the store today.

In 1976 he began Blackberry Books, a small press devoted to bringing Maine classics back into print as well as publishing international poetry and fiction. Blackberry has republished the work of Ruth Moore, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Dorothy Simpson, Leo Connellan, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Henry Beston, Roger Duncan and others, as well as publishing new work by Maine writers Sanford Phippen, Kate Barnes, Theodore Enslin, and Paul Corrigan.

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Source: Camden Public Library

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