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A conference on the mythopoetic imagination May 16 May 23 2025Camp Wavus Jefferson Maine The Great Mother Conference is an annual retreat founded by Robert Bly in 1975. Since its founding year it has brought together poets thinkers artists dreamers doers musicians ecologists singers journalists activists and everything in between and far beyond for a gathering designed to stir a revolution of the heart an interrogation into mystery and a wildeyed courtship of land and story unlike any other. True wildness is a love of nature a delight in silence a voice free to say spontaneous things and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown. Robert Bly We would give anything for what we have.