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William Wilfred Campbell Poetry Festival is an Arts festival founded by Paul Kastner in 2014 in Wiarton, Ontario honouring local poet William Wilfred Campbell. The festivities are opened with the playing of The Campbell's are Coming on bagpipes and the reading of Cambpell's poem Indian Summer. Supported by the League of Canadian Poets and the Canadian Council For the Arts.

In 2016, the festival was held in Oliphant, Ontario at South Bruce Peninsula's Outdoor Education Centre.

In 2017, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, Ontario) hosted the festival where the committee demonstrated how Campbell's poems, like Indian Summer, may have inspired paintings by Tom Thomson. Owen Sound Poets Laureate (2015-2017) Larry Jensen and Rob Rolfe performed recounting local stories, entitled, Mudtown.

2014

 * Loons written and performed by Elizabeth Bazeley
 * Night Passage - Lake Huron written and performed by Anne Duke Judd
 * Miles of Diamonds written and performed by Faye Annette Bender

2015

 * Revival written and performed by Elizabeth Bazeley
 * Unknown written and performed by Carol Chivotas
 * He said/She said written and performed by John Smallwood

2016

 * Yeats' Garden written and performed by Lucy Bacon
 * Progression written and performed by Lynn Wyvill
 * The Vegetarian Vulture written and performed by Susan Selby

2017

 * When I'm Gone written and performed by Caleb Hull
 * Elephant in the Room written and performed by Dieter Heinrich
 * Quiet Corners written and performed by Shane Fera