Maine poet, Carol Bachofner writes poems that appeal to the idea that we are all connected, to each other and to nature. She writes with a strong sense of place through narrative. She enjoys writing in traditional form as well as in open form (free verse). Founding editor of Pulse Literary Journal, Carol teaches poetry in her community, Rockland, Maine and “on the road” via workshops and conferences. She was a featured speaker at the Winter Wheat Conference at Bowling Green University in 2007 and at the Maine Literary Festival in 2009. Bachofner was the founder of the annual Poetry Month Rockland in 2010, a city-wide celebration of everything poetic.
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Coming soon to my blog:
Poetry Month Challenges (Poem-a-Day)
Each day in the month of April, 2012, I will post a poetry challenge (prompt).
I challenge all you serious (and just for fun) poets to write to these prompts. At the beginning of May, I will post the best of these responses on "Pulse Literary Journal". Great way to get published. Great way to kick start your poetic mind!
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BOOKS FOR SALE
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Daughter of the Ardennes Forest tackles Post-War PTSD and its legacy passed on to soldiers' families. The poems resonate with tank fire and humor, with suffering and healing. Written from dual perspectives of soldier and daughter, the collection remembers and forgives.
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Breakfast at the Brass Compass is a delicious menu of poems written from the heart of rural coastal Maine. Every poem affirms life, breathes on the page as raw nature blending perfectly with human nature, emanating from streets, porches, and cafes, from galleries and museums, and from the ever-present sea holding the pulse of it all.
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I Write in the Greenhouse embodies the wondrous and surprising in nature, as observed from the author's little glass house sometime potting shed, sometime seed nursery, sometime writing studio. The poems find a space where nature and humanity meet, paying attention to detail, celebrating seasons of snow angels, stars, wind, fish, and garden blooms, and offer a blessing on all of it.
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Native Moons, Native Days: "What a gift to read Carol Bachofner's poetry, full of words and phrases from her native Abenaki language that make us long for a kinder world, a world that shows us the possibilities of turning away from the face paints of war — red and black — and opt instead for yellow, the color of peace. Very good poems, indeed." - Alice M. Azure Along Came a Spider, Games of Transformation
Cost: $14.95 + shipping
Email Carol to purchase.
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Drink From Your Own Well: a guide to richer writing,
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(Writing Workbook)
Cost: $20,00 includes shipping
Email Carol to purchase.
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CALENDAR
April 13-14, 2012
Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival
UMaine Augusta
April 18, 2012
POETS/SPEAK!
Panel Discussion
"Getting Published in Print & Online"
Bangor Library
Wednesday, 3:30 PM
Reading (Native Moons, Native Days) 5 PM
April 25, 2012
Poetry Month Rockland Fireside Reading
Rockland Public Library
Host for High School Students
Wednesday, NOON
April 26, 2012
Poetry Swarm/Poetry Month Rockland
Community Room
Rockland Public Library
Thursday, 6:30 PM
May 3-6 2012
May Sarton Symposium
York Public Library
York, Maine
May 19, 2012
Maine Poets Society
UMaine Augusta
Saturday, 9 AM- 4PM
May 23, 2012
Deep Revision Workshop
Rockland, Maine
Limited to 5 participants
email for details and registration
Wednesday, 1PM-4 PM
May 26, 2012
Deep Revision Workshop
Rockland, Maine
Limited to 5 participants
email for details and registration
Saturday, 1PM-4 PM
June 12, 2012
Reading: Native Moons, Native Days
with Gayle Portnow
Camden Public Library
6:30 PM
August 6-10, 2012
Writing Between the Lines w/Kathleen Ellis
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland
August 8, 2012
Millay: Her Loves, Her Life, Her Poetry
Reading and Presentation - 7PM
Whitehall Inn, Camden
Water Psalm
Bless the water,
the flow, the ebb, the seep.
Bubble it, keep it clear.
Rinse your divine face in it, salty or fresh,
fast or pooled. Feel it in your hair
beneath the storm, hear it
outside your window, running in your dreams.
Let your ancestors’ voices flow
from it to bring us together in psalm.
Keep the tide in place, keep the levees whole.
Let every molecule of water say its name.
Bless the water in us, the tide in us,
the moon that pulls it through our veins.
Bless the water that will carry our ashes home.
— from Breakfast at the Brass Compass
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Carol W. Bachofner, award-winning Maine poet and teacher of poets. Available to teach/conduct writing workshops and classes. Editing services available. Her poems have appeared in such notable journals as Prairie Schooner, CT Review, Main Street Rag, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream City Review, Naugatuck River Review, and others.
She has published a writers’ workbook.
 Drink From Your Own Well: a guide to richer writing.
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Her Poetry Books:
Daughter of the Ardennes Forest, 2007
Breakfast at the Brass Compass, 2010
I Write in the Greenhouse, 2011.
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Praise for Bachofner's poetry
"The poems of Carol Bachofner are distinguished first by their elegantly simple and passionate language. Each word seems carefully weighed and measured, a means of arriving at the poem’s overall form, which is arrived at, not imposed."
— Clare Rossini, professor at Trinity College and Vermont College of Fine Arts; author of Lingo and Winter Morning With Crow.
"Carol Bachofner’s poems are sacred poetry that exults in the senses. Fine-etched, delicate diction combines with passionate natural imagery to offer lovely work that, poem after poem, affirms life."
— Jennifer MacPherson, editor The Comstock Review, author of Rosary of Bones.
Regarding the poem, Watching Myself Thinking of You, 1943, which won first place in the 2004 Loella Cady Lamphier Poetry Prize and appeared in Miller’s Pond, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Summer 2004, final judge Nancy Breen (editor, Poet’s Market), writes: "This poem stood out on several levels. The tribute of a child reliving the sacrifice her parents made is touching, and the poem is full of wonderful sensory details (“orange-red suns of sweet icy fruit” and “grime of slow-moving glass” in particular). I also admire the spare, precise language; the poet resists the temptation to get maudlin or melodramatic, letting the simple and searing drama speak for itself."
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NEWS: Bachofner was just named as a a 2011 Maine Literary Awards finalist
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NEWS: National Federation of State Poetry Societies announces that Carol's poem "I Write in the Greenhouse" won 7th Honorable Mention in the 2011 Founders Award and her poem, "Evolution 2" won 5th Honorable Mention in the 2011 Save the Earth Award.
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