EVENTS/NEWS

 Leonore was one of three finalists for the 2024 Maine Writers and Publishers Award in Poetry for a selection of poems: "Lessons in Love's Grammar," "Lost Geographies," "Centers of Balance," "Reaching a Threshold," and "Looking Up the Word Bully."

Brian and Leonore will perform original music to benefit the Steuben Library. The event includes dinner in the elegant setting of the Eagle Institute in Steuben, Maine. Reservations recommended.

Four local poets––Shelly Barnett, Leonore Hildebrandt, Pamela Warren Williams, and Lynne Zotalis––will be reading and discussing their new collection UPWARD SPIRAL: POEMS OF OPENING AND RENEWAL at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Silver City, NM.

KURU, Silver City NM. Three local poets––Leonore Hildebrandt, Pamela Warren Williams, and Lynne Zotalis––will be discussing and reading from their new collection UPWARD SPIRAL. Hosted by Paula Geisler.

SWAG, Books and More, Silver City NM. Four local poets––Shelly Barnett, Leonore Hildebrandt, Pamela Warren Williams, and Lynne Zotalis––will be reading from their new collection UPWARD SPIRAL.

Bayard Library, Silver City NM. Four local poets––Shelly Barnett, Leonore Hildebrandt, Pamela Warren Williams, and Lynne Zotalis––will be reading from their new collection UPWARD SPIRAL.

Leonore and Brian will play original music at the Blueberry Festival in Machias, Maine. Outdoor stage.

Leonore and Brian will play original music in Cherryfield, Maine, to benefit the Cherryfield Academy's arts program.

Leonore and Brian will play original music In Orono, Maine, to benefit PICA, a social justice group (Power in Community Alliances.) Contact me for more info.

Leonore will play original songs at the Tranquil Buzz Coffee House in Silver City, NM. This event is part of a week-long festival.

Faculty, students, and guests Elise Stuart and Leonore will read at the Miller Library at UWNM, Silver City, NM.

Leonore will join area poets for a reading at the Bayard Library in Bayard, NM.

Leonore will read her work at the lovely Tranquil Buzz Coffee House in Silver City, NM.

Leonore will facilitate a four-week class, administered by the Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL) in Silver City, NM. Thursdays from 10 to noon.

Original Songs and More. Singer-songwriters Leonore and Brian, Danielle Woerner, and pianist Kimberly Battaline. 10 Fish Point, Milbridge, Maine. Presented by Sunrise County Arts Institute

At the South Addison Chapel, Addison, Maine, which has the best acoustics!

Leonore and Brian will play at the Milbridge Congregational Church to benefit the restoration of the steeple. All original songs,.

Local Maine poets and essayists will read from their pieces in the new book, “A Dangerous New World, Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis.”   Leonore and Brian, Downeast songwriters and musicians will perform original pieces – all in celebration of what we love…and what we don’t want to lose in this rocky place beside the sea. Gouldsboro Town Park (in Prospect Harbor).

Maine's poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum read one of Leonore's poems on Maine Public Radio.  "Tender Talk" is a persona poem set in Downeast Maine.  Listen to it here.

“Pulling a James Baldwin” featured an open call for proposals from artists, writers, and performers to select and perform their favorite James Baldwin excerpt. You can view the recording from February 26th below featuring Maya Williams, Leonore Hildebrandt, Allegra Fletcher, AhDream Smith, Jefferson Navicky, and Sion Dayson followed by a conversation with Spitting Fire Curatorial Fellow Valeria Missalina Bembry.

Watch the reading and conversation here.

Littoral Books has invited some of Maine’s best-loved poets to read their own (or someone else’s) poem that they think honors 2021’s inaugural event. Witness history in the making the night before the Inauguration. Leonore will read her poem "I Cannot Live Without You."

You can find it published by Poets Reading the News here.

Featuring poets from Enough! Poems of Resistance and Protest, published by Littoral Press. Kathleen Ellis hosts a reading by Leonore Hildebrandt, Annaliese Jakimides, Steve Luttrell, and Lisa Panepinto as part of celebration of Poets for Human Rights at UMaine Honors College.

Brian and Leonore play original songs at Kathleen Sullivan's with Michael the Farmer sitting in with them. Due to the corona virus, they kept performances small and outdoors this summer.

Edited by Kathleen Sullivan and Meghan Sterling, A Dangerous New World, Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, is a collection of poems, essays and visual images by Maine artists. 

Leonore and Brian will play original songs. POSTPONED TO AUGUST 2021 DUE TO CORONA VIRUS

Leonore and friends will play original music at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House. Hosted by the "Church of the Singing Heart." All are welcome! CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA VIRUS

Leonore will read poems as part of the Creative Voices Session of the Eighth Gila Symposium. WNMU Student Memorial Building, 3rd Floor Meeting Room.

Leonore will read poems at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House. Open mic to follow.

Silver City poets Beate Sigriddaughter, Eve West Bessier, Elise Stuart, and Leonore will give a joint reading at the Bayard library, followed by a book signing. 

Leonore and Brian in Concert: Sat., Nov. 2, 2019. Potluck at 6 pm, music starts at 7 pm. At the home of François Amar, 20 Spencer Street, Orono, ME.
$20 suggested donation to benefit PICA (Power In Community Alliances). To RSVP or for more information: amar@maine.edu or (207) 944-3151

Eight women poets from eastern and midcoast Maine will read from their work
published in Balancing Act 2 at the Carver Library:  Linda Buckmaster (Belfast), Shirley
Glubka (Prospect), Leonore Hildebrandt (Harrington), Judy Kaber (Belfast), Valerie
Lawson (Robbinston), Leslie Moore (Belfast), Anne Britting Oleson (Dixmont), and
Pat Ranzoni (Bucksport). The event is free and open to the public.

Featuring music by Leonore and Brian to benefit the publication of A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, a collection of poems, essays and visual images by Maine artists, edited by Kathleen Sullivan and Meghan Sterling. Cape Split Chapel, South Addison.

In this workshop we will discuss ways to maximize our efforts in growing food, and then tour Leonore’s beautiful vegetable garden in Harrington, Maine. It's part of the Incredible Edible Milbridge program, which fosters public vegetable gardens and education initiatives designed to create a community that is stronger, healthier, and more food independent.

The winner of the Maine Poets Society prize poem contest will be announced as part of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA) awards ceremony at the Bangor Public Library, Maine.  Leonore is one of three finalists.

Paul Hotvedt and Leonore Hildebrandt will play at the Tranquilbuzz Coffee House, Silver City, 12 to 2 pm. Originals, covers, fiddle tunes, and German folk.

Beate Sigriddaughter (poet laureate of Silver City), Elise Stuart (former poet laureate of Silver City), and Leonore Hildebrandt will read from their respective new books in the public library. "Through the Eyes of Three Women" -- an event for Women's History Month!

Hosted by Elise Stuart on “Use Your Words,”  archived at gmcr.org.

Featuring Leonore Hildebrandt, Joanna Crouse, and Kathleen Ellis, this event will showcase some of the creative writing faculty's work in this fall's New Writing Series. On the Orono campus, at Stewart Commons 104.

Brian Dyer Stewart  and Leonore will return to the Moore Library and Community Center in Steuben with a program of poetry and music. Leonore will read from her latest book, Where You Happen to Be, with some of the poems set to music, and the two of them will perform new songs.

Along with other authors from the Three Nations Anthology, Leonore will read her work at the Waterfall Arts Gallery, 256 High Street, Belfast, ME. (This is the night before the Belfast Poetry Festival.)
 

On October 5 through 8, Leonore will teach a poetry workshop titled "Playing with Words and Ideas" at the Haystack Mountain School Of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME.

Open Door, first offered at Haystack in 1982, has become an important event for the school and the Maine arts community. This intensive fall session for Maine residents allows the chance to retreat and devote extended time to one’s work. All levels of students take part.

Leonore will be reading poetry with other authors from the Three Nations Anthology, edited by Valerie Lawson.
Abbe Museum, 26 Mt Desert Street, Bar Harbor, ME.

Leonore will read poetry along with Kathleen Ellis and Claire Raymond, followed by a book signing.

Leonore will read poetry along with Kathleen Ellis and Claire Raymond, followed by a book signing.

Leonore will read poetry alongside Christian Barter, Paul Weiss, Starr Bright, and Bob Quinn. The event is part of the Northeast Harbor Summer Program 2018.

To celebrate the publication of WHERE YOU HAPPEN TO BE, Leonore will give a short reading followed by a book signing. Live music with Brian Dyer Stewart. Slide show with art by Heidi Daub. Refreshments.

Leonore and Brian Dyer Stewart will be performing original music in Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor, ME. This event is part of the Schoodic Arts Program.

On May 18, 2018 at 7 pm, Leonore will be reading poetry at the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, ME.

The Beloit Poetry Journal invites submissions:

    $1,500 prize for a single poem,  Judge: Naomi Shihab Nye,  Submissions Open March 1 - April 30, 2018.

Hosted by Silver City poet laureate Beate Sigriddaughter: "Words and Music" at the Tranquil Buzz.

Hosted by Elise Stuart and JJ Amaworo Wilson on “Use Your Words,”  archived at gmcr.org.

Creative Voices Session at the Seventh Natural History of the Gila Symposium at WNMU.

Hosted by former Silver City poet laureate Elise Stuart at the Church of Harmony.

Hosted by Elise Stuart and Richard Mahler on “Use Your Words,”  archived at gmcr.org.

Hosted by the Bangor Library.

The Flat Bay Collective presents a mixed program of literature, music, and art at the Jessup Memorial Library.

Featured poet at the 11th Belfast Poetry Festival, ME, reading and musical performance, with Brian Dyer Stewart

Hosted by Ellie O'Leary, with fiction writer Robert Froese. Archived at WERU community radio.