Founders
Meg Weston is the co-founder and director of The Poets Corner and co-founder/co-director of the Camden Festival of Poetry. In January 2020, Weston retired after 8 years as president of Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. She previously held various leadership positions in the field of imaging, education, and journalism.
Meg Weston’s poetry expresses a passion for geological processes that shape the earth and the stories that shape our lives. Her obsession with volcanoes can been seen in photographs on her website volcanoes.com.
After receiving an MFA in Creative Writing in creative non-fiction from Lesley University in 2008, she began to focus on and study the craft of poetry. Her first poetry collection, Magma Intrusions, was published in May 2023 by Kelsay Books, a new collaborative work with Margaret Haberman, To the Point and Back: Swimming Poems, was released in May 2024. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies, and in a chapbook, Letters from the White Queen.
Whether as poet, translator, or scholar, Mark S. Burrows is much in demand as a speaker and workshop/retreat leader across the US and in Australia, the UK, and Europe. During the 2010s, he served as professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. During that time he was also an invited member of a professional writers’ group, the Bochumer Literaten, giving readings (of his German poems) in that city and region of Germany.
He is currently Poetry Editor of Wildhouse Publishing and the international journal Spiritus. An award-winning translator of German poetry, his publications include Rainer Maria Rilke’s Prayers of a Young Poet (the original version of poems later collected as Part I of The Book of Hours; 2013/2024), the Iranian-German poet SAID’s 99 Psalms (2013), and, most recently, The Wandering Radiance: Selected Poems of Hilde Domin (2023). His The Chance of Home poems appeared in 2018, flanked by three volumes of meditative poems (co-authored with Jon M. Sweeney) inspired by the heretical mystic Meister Eckhart, most recently Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light. Meditations on the Path of the Wayless Way (2023). His translation of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus was published in June, 2024, and a volume co-authored with Stephanie Dowrick, You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke will appear in October 2024 He lives and writes in Camden, ME. www.soul-in-sight.org