Hybrid 2021 Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival presents visual, literary arts Sat, 04/03/2021 - 1:00pm Baron Wormser. (Photo courtesy University of Maine at Augusta) “This past year has been challenging,” said the University of Maine in Augusta, in a news release. “We have been quarantining, masking, ‘pivoting,’ rising up, breaking down, and just trying to keep it together.” To mark the events of this moment, the annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival will break out of its usual format, Friday, April 30, to celebrate the University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) 2020-2021 academic theme of “Outbreak,” a topic inclusive of viral outbreaks, outbreaks of social justice, and outbreaks of creativity.