FREE | Every Friday: July 7 - September 29
Reception 4:30-5:30pm, Presentation 5-6pm
Join us throughout the summer for our free public series of artist talks, readings, and presentations. We’ll celebrate the series with a NEW weekly reception— arrive early and enjoy free drinks and snacks with our visiting artists-in-residence. We’ll hear from poets, scholars, visual artists, storytellers, and potters. All are welcome!
Craigardan’s Applebarn Series is made possible in part thanks to support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene).
William Camponovo’s poetry has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Seattle Review, The Los Angeles Review, Best New Poets, and online at Poetry Northwest. Through Lost & Found, the publishing house of the Center for the Humanities at the City University of New York, he published “Jack Forbes: ‘Yanga Ya,’ Selected Poems and The Goals of Education,” which curated pedagogical materials from Indigenous scholar, activist, and poet Jack Forbes. William has studied poetry and poetics at Johns Hopkins, the University of Washington, and the Graduate Center at CUNY. He teaches with the Bard Prison Initiative.
Brad Shingleton now devotes his time to writing as an independent scholar after a career in law. His work had recently concentrated on law, ethics and society, topics on which he has recently published a book and several journal articles. He has also written on aspects of moral reasoning and ethical conflict. Brad has authored personal essays on nature and naturalists that have appeared in The Washington Post and literary journals such as The Snowy Egret. He lives in Maryland.
Mia Vodanovich is the cross-pollinated child of farmland and Bay Area ‘burbs. Mia is a writer, teacher, podcast co-host, and semi-avid ABBA fan. She received her MA in English at Notre Dame de Namur University and has had work published in The Bohemian, Leaf by Leaf, House of HASH, and Unstamatic Magazine, with a piece forthcoming in Healthline Zine. Her chapbook Not Long for This World was published in February 2023 with Bottlecap Press.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Melissa Dickey now lives in Western Massachusetts, where she teaches high school English. She is the author of two books of poetry published by Rescue Press and another forthcoming from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Her writing has appeared in Bennington Review, The Spectacle, Laurel Review, jubilat, and Interim, among other publications. She is also the mother of four children.