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2025 Camden Festival of Poetry

May 13-17, 2025

with keynote speaker Jane Hirshfield, award-winning poet, translator & essayist.

NEW this Year!

A chapbook to capture some of the offerings of the third year of the Camden Festival of Poetry. The poems included in this chapbook are those shared by the poets of 2025—Judy Kaber, Myronn Hardy, Sal Taylor Kydd, Maya Williams and Beau Williams along with our keynote presenter Jane Hirshfield.

The name for the collection, The Hard Embrace, comes from a phrase in Sal Taylor Kydd’s poem “Crossing,” and reflects the range of voices and approaches in the poems found in these pages.

The cover features art by Camden artist Ingrid Ellison

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