Poetry Workshop with Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Join us at the Desert of Maine’s historic farmhouse for a poetry workshop, reading, and a book signing with poet Sally Bliumis-Dunn, who will share her most recent work, Alive in These Woods.

Author Nin Andrews describes her reading experience of Alive in These Woods: “I was dumbstruck by Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s authenticity, her tenderness, her lyrical brilliance. Each poem is like a painting I want to hang above my desk, or an insight I want to frame. Whether reflecting on midlife, marital struggles, motherhood, encounters with hawks and butterflies, or the ache of loneliness, she is also writing about the fundamental questions of existence: how do we live, find meaning, and transform ourselves in the midst of our troubled lives?”

Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s poems have appeared in From the Fishouse, The New York Times, Nimrod, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” Verse Daily and Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize.