This program has been cancelled. 

The Blue Hill Public Library is sponsoring an author talk with Maine poet Leonore Hildebrandt on Thursday May 7 at 7 PM in the library's Howard Room for her poetry collection Somewhere the Day Begins.

About Hildebrandt's collection,  fellow poet Stuart Kestenbaum writes: "In Somewhere the Day Begins Leonore Hildebrandt explores the world with its deep wounds and its seeds sprouting in the ground. She bears witness. She weaves personal history, fact, and fiction and creates a space where we are guided by the clarity of her language and the power of her imagination. These are poems that are unafraid to look deeply at the challenges we have faced and will face on our troubled planet.  But in looking deeply, she finds a profound place of resilience in the intense gestures of living each day and in the long arc of our lives."

Leonore Hildebrandt is the author of the poetry collections Somewhere the Day Begins, The Work at Hand, The Next Unknown, and Where You Happen to Be. Her poems and translations appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cafe Review, Cerise Press, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Harpur Palate, New Letters, Poetry Daily, Rhino, and Sugar House Review, among other journals. She received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. Nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize, she was a finalist for the Maine Writers and Publishers Award in Poetry in 2024. Originally from Germany, Leonore lives in Harrington, Maine.

This program will be held in the library's Howard Room, and is free and open to all. For more information, please call the library at 374-5515 or email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net.