Writers in the Round: 2025 Performance and Fundraiser
Friday, June 13th from 5:00-7:30pm
The Kittery Art Association Gallery
2 Walker Street, Kittery ME 03904
Join us for the annual performance of award-winning songwriters and poets, featuring artists who have facilitated workshops on Star Island in New Hampshire! With compelling lyrics, melodies, verses, and narratives, these artists remind us of the importance of art in building community. This event is a fundraiser for Star Island and Writers in the Round.
Artists:
Guy Capecelatro III is a prolific singer-songwriter who has written and recorded hundreds of albums and has played in a slew of bands over the years. He has also written three books of poems and currently lives in Kittery, Maine. Guy works as a landscaper and publishes books and albums with the label Burst and Bloom, which he runs with Dylan Metrano and Two-Ton Santa.
Jud Caswell is an award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has been performing in his native state of Maine and beyond for more than 25 years. His work has won numerous awards and have been covered by celebrated folk legends. His record “Live at the Seagull Shop” was the #1 album on the Folk Alliance International radio charts in March of 2020.
Craig Werth infuses his original songs with compassion and hope, as well as the glorious imperfection, pain, worry and humor inherent in our shared humanity. He has brought his songs and stories around much of the world, and especially across all of the U.S. and Canada. Craig is a founding member and 20+ year participant in the Writers in the Round Retreat on Star Island.
Sonja Johanson is a New England poet whose work focuses on ecology and feminism. She has work appearing in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Life in Poetry, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, and the Best American Poetry blog, and has served as a contributing editor at the Found Poetry Review and Eastern Iowa Review. Sonja lives in the mountains of Western Maine.
Meg Kearney’s eighth book, All Morning the Crows, won the 2020 Washington Prize, made Small Press Distribution’s poetry bestseller list April through September 2021, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was awarded the Silver Medal in Foreword Review’s Indies Book Award for Poetry. She is founding director of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University in Massachusetts.
Dawn Potter’s most recent poetry collection is Calendar (Deerbrook Editions, 2025). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, she has also won a Maine Literary Award in nonfiction. Her poems and essays appear in the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Dawn directs poetry programs at Monson Arts, is a vibrant member of the Maine poetry scene, and lives in Portland, ME.
Ellen M. Taylor is a poet, teacher, scholar and organizer of Maine’s Plunkett Poetry Festival. Her work has appeared in the North American Review, New England Review, and elsewhere, and her latest collection, Homelands, was nominated for a Maine literary award. Ellen teaches at the University of Maine in Augusta and in the Maine Prison Education Program. She lives in Appleton, ME.
Jocelyn Mackenzie is a singer-songwriter, vocalist, electric uke player, percussionist, and producer, from Brooklyn, NY, and a regular at Writers in the Round on Star Island. Her music is a joyful expression of her very being, and it has been commissioned for stage, screen, and commercials. Jocelyn’s songwriting workshops share the joy of musical exploration with musicians and non-musicians alike.