Interviews and Videos
about Elizabeth’s Poetry and Memoir
Watch Elizabeth’s interview about her new memoir with Rob Caldwell on Maine News Center program “207” here. (Aired on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7:00 p.m. on WLBZ in Bangor and WCSH in Portland)
Watch Sailing at the Edge of Disaster book trailer, created by Camden, Maine filmmaker David Berez, to transport the viewer to a hippie school at sea in the 70s here.
Watch this lively book talk from Elizabeth Garber’s Book Launch, September 13, at Belfast Free Library, co-sponsored with Left Bank Books of Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year here.
Watch this compelling conversation between Elizabeth Garber and acclaimed author, Christina Baker Kline, at the Northeast Harbor Library on September 14, about her new memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster here.
Michelle Redo’s Podcast Daring to Tell interviewed Elizabeth Garber and asked her read two long selections from her newly released Sailing at the Edge of Disaster. September 2022 here.
MUTHA Magazine published “Risking the Truth: Talking to an Aging Parent about Child Abuse” here.
Cincinnati’s City Beat interviewed Elizabeth Garber about Implosion here.
The Bangor Daily News interviewed Elizabeth Garber about Implosion here.
Elizabeth Garber was interviewed for Village Soup, Arts & Entertainment News for Midcoast Maine. Read here.
Interview with Elizabeth Garber in the international architectural website ArchDaily. Read full interview here.
Ron Hogan’s podcasts on Beatrice have been Introducing Readers to Writer’s since 1995. He posted his podcast interview: Life Stories #102: Elizabeth Garber. Listen to his interview here.
Steven Rosen for Cincinnati’s City Beat wrote “Remembering Cincinnati’s Towering Modernist Architect: A new book by his daughter sheds light on the troubled life of the daring, visionary Woodie Garber” which can be read here.
Abigail Curtis wrote for the Bangor Daily News an article titled “‘I had to discover a magic answer that would please him’: Belfast poet writes searing memoir about growing up in shadow of her brilliant, troubled father.” Read the article here.
The Cincinnati Enquirer highlighted Elizabeth as one of five Cincinnati writers here.
In an interview with Elizabeth titled “Form Follows Dysfunction” she and Dagney Ernest have an in-depth conversation for Village Soup in Midcoast Maine. Read the article here.
Sean Farjadi’s interviewed Elizabeth for his “Stories that Empower” series of podcasts. Listen here.
Elizabeth created a blog post, “Growing Up with Bertoia Sculptures,” for the Bertoia Foundation Newsletter. See the blog here.
Here’s Elizabeth’s “Shop Talk” filmed at Old Professor’s Bookshop, in Belfast, Maine. A lively tour through Elizabeth’s writing history with some poems, an excerpt from her memoir, and lively conversations with the audience. Highlights are the much requested Forsythia poem and being on Harvard suicide watch (with a happy ending.)Watch the video of her talk here.
“Growing Up in a Glass House: What Is it Like to Be the Daughter of an Uncompromising Modernist Architect?” Interview of Elizabeth Garber By Baron Wormser (reprinted interview from Common/Edge in ArchDaily) Read interview at ArchDaily here. Read interview at Common/Edge here.
On Maine Public Radio’s program Poets from Here, Maine’s Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum reads Elizabeth’s poem “The New Marriage.” Listen to the poem here.
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA) highlights information about Maine Writers. View Elizabeth’s listing here.
Elizabeth was chosen to be interviewed and filmed for a website showcasing twenty Maine Poets. Watch the interview here.
From the Maine Humanities Council Denise Pendleton, Maine Humanities Council’s Program Director of Born To Read and poet, sat down at the Belfast Free Library with two of Maine’s best-known poets, Elizabeth Garber and Dawn Potter. In addition to reading from their memoirs, the poets spoke about why they turned to prose and how their poetry background has influenced their current writing. Listen to the conversation here.
An hour long community television program, a Visit with Poet Laureate Elizabeth Garber can be seen here.
This Poetry Short features Belfast Maine Poet Elizabeth Garber. The title is “Bay Crossing – January” The poem is a distillation of Elizabeth’s experience of seeing a deer attempt to cross Penobscot Bay from the mainland to Warren Island…..The Maine ferry ‘Margaret Chase Smith’ happens to “disrupt” this attempt !! Videography and editing by Belfast resident Mark Kuzio. (copyright Elizabeth Garber and Mark Kuzio 2012) Watch the short here.
Poetry By The Bay: A program about local poets and their work. Hosted by Kristrin Frangoulis, Interview with Elizabeth Garber about poetry, the Belfast Poets Laureate, her childhood in Ohio, her memoir. Winter 2017. Listen to the program here.
Three poems by Elizabeth Garber read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac:
Artist Maryjean Viano Crowe and poet, Elizabeth W. Garber, collaborated for the 2012 Belfast, Maine Poetry Festival. Three stories are recounted here: Elizabeth’s indelible experience talking with Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina; Maryjean’s intense following of the events of the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt; and their combined involvement locally working against the proposed 23 million gallon, 14 story tall LPG “megatank” that was proposed for the coastal village of Searsport, Maine. Viano Crowe and Garber focused on women’s leadership in fighting against oppression, with words, action, and bearing witness. This work is divided into three sections: Argentina, Egypt, and Searsport to honor them. (Update 2014: The megatank was not built, though the issue is still a contentious one between proponents and opponents). Watch the stories here.