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6th Annual Brigid Poetry Festival

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

It is that time of year again, when bloggers around the world post a favorite poem in honor of Brigid, the Irish goddess and patron saint of smithcraft, poetry, and healing. Brigid’s feast day is February 1st, so between now and then is the perfect time to publish a poem to celebrate.

Last year many great poems were published all over the web. This year, I have set up a Community Facebook Page to help people easily view each other’s poems and to share them around as much as possible. If you post a poem on your blog, please share the link on the community page so we can all go there and read it. If you don’t have a blog or website of your own, go ahead and post your poem in its entirety to the community page.

I haven’t quite decided which poem to post, so I have a week ahead of me to wander through books of poetry. May you enjoy the same pursuit, and by February 1st may the web be overflowing with poetic offerings!

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16 Responses to “6th Annual Brigid Poetry Festival”

  1. Lisa Says:
    January 26th, 2011 at 1:43 am

    Oh I lvoe this. I just linked to you on my blog.

    http://celebratetherhythmoflife.blogspot.com/2011/01/feast-of-brigid.html

  2. Susan Says:
    January 26th, 2011 at 1:47 am

    I’m in! Thanks for all your hard work organising this.

  3. Reya Mellicker Says:
    January 26th, 2011 at 7:09 am

    I will be inspired to dig deep into my books of poetry tonight as we are allegedly going to receive between 5″ and 10″ of snow. Oh yeah, it is TIME. Cheers!

  4. roberto quintas Says:
    January 28th, 2011 at 4:15 am

    it’s must be in english? i’m from Brazil.

    Anne Reply:
    January 28th, 2011 at 10:39 am

    Any language is fine, Roberto–the language of poetry transcends them all.

  5. Medusa Says:
    January 31st, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    I’m not on Facebook, so I’ll leave the info here and if someone wants to add the link to to the Community Page that’s fine. The link to my Brigid Festival contribution is
    http://medusacoils.blogspot.com/2011/01/poetry-for-brigid.html

    Blessed Brigid/Imbolc to all.

    Anne Reply:
    February 1st, 2011 at 9:30 am

    Thanks for sharing this, Medusa. I will post your link to the community page as well!

  6. JeninCanada Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 7:59 am

    I didn’t know about this until today but it’s a lovely idea. I’ll see if the Muses move me and post up what they give.

  7. Rebecca Clayton Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    Hi, I’m not on Facebook, but I’ve enjoyed participating in this for several years now, and I thought maybe you could forward my link there, if it’s not a lot of trouble. Anyway, picking out a poem and sharing it is its own reward.

    http://pocahontascofare.blogspot.com/2011/02/poetry-feast-for-st-bridgid-shining.html

    Thanks for managing things!

    Anne Reply:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am

    You are welcome! Your link was posted to Facebook this morning.

  8. Literata Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    Also not on Facebook – sorry!

    Planting Time

    And also this, which is not a poem: Stories of Brigid which I told at the local Imbolc celebration.

    Anne Reply:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am

    Posted for you this morning.

  9. mouse Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    looking forward to participating again this year!!

    thanks for organizing this celebration!

    look forward to reading lots of poems in the days to come. one of my favorite poems will be popping up tomorrow – mashing together the feast of brigid, candlemas, and groundhog day!

    namaste!

  10. melanie Says:
    February 1st, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    I posted here:

    http://teabird17.blogspot.com/2011/02/brigid-poetry-festival.html

    Anne Reply:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 am

    Done–I posted the link for you on the FB page.

  11. Vermillion Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 9:23 am

    I’ve participated as well, my posts are http://vermillionrush.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/poetry-for-brighid/ and http://vermillionrush.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/even-more-poetry-for-brighid/ Thanks for compiling them every year!