Poetry
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
Gov. Mills pushes the power of poems – and writes them, too
As governor, Janet Mills served on a committee that selected the state’s current poet laureate, Julia Bouwsma, and she restored poetry to inaugurations.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
Read a few poems Gov. Mills wrote over the years
Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says poems 'elevate our soul.'
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2023
Deep Water: ‘My Friend Tells Me About the Last Day at the Bass Shoe Factory,’ By Abbie Kiefer
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2023
Brunswick celebrates ‘rockstar’ poet after pandemic hiatus
Brunswick's annual Longfellow Days returns in February after a 2-year hiatus, offering locals the chance to celebrate one of the Midcoast's most influential figures and to enjoy contemporary poetry.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2023
Longfellow Days to celebrate famed poet after pandemic hiatus
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2023
Poems of female agency and survival anchor Cate Marvin’s fourth collection
Amid the harrowing themes, several poems center on loving mother-daughter bonds.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2022
A friendship in life and words
An old friend takes stock of a new Wes McNair collection, which caps a decades-long career in poetry.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2022
Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library
The prose poems in 'Antique Densities' are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2022
Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94
Ebtehaj contributed to the popularity of the ghazal – a traditional form of Persian poetry set to music that expresses the writer’s feelings, especially about love, with moving intensity.