The prose poems in ‘Antique Densities’ are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
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Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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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.
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Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’
Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
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Deadline nears for Patten Free Library poetry contest
Local poets have until March 1 to submit their work to a new competition at Bath’s Patten Free Library. The contest is a new addition to the Library Park Poetry Walk, which will run for the second time this April. Competitors from the library’s service area should submit a 1-12 line poem with a hopeful […]
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Deep Water: ‘Synesthesia, by Mary Tracy
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Book review: ‘Wait: Poems from the Pandemic’ reveals our anxieties, longings and loneliness
In a ‘landscape transformed,’ Maine writers and artists describe pain, hope and ‘the boring parts of keeping us alive’ in these extraordinary times.
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Life Unwound: Poetry helps balance the meter of life
The first time I heard the word plethora, I sat in a teacher-development intensive course to practice stress reduction for my life passages, body aches and pains, aging, the slings and arrows the universe sends us all. I had completed years of study to learn to help others do the same. Our teachers talked about […]
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Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts
Throughout the aviator’s public life, she was tenacious about guarding her privacy, including her desire to be a writer.
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Deep Water: ‘The Comfort in Named Things’ by Deborah Cummins
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.