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Bedside Table: New biography of famed Maine poet sparks cherished memories
“I selected ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,’ by Nicholas A. Basbanes, from the Kennebunk Free Library during the winter shutdown, not only for a Portland Press Herald write-up, but because it brought back memories of my Dad, a Longfellow scholar, born, raised and schooled in Boston, a few hundred years after […]
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A famous father casts shadows over painful memoir
In ‘Poetic License,’ the daughter of poet Richard Eberhart works to reconcile the love and loathing he inspired.
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An uneasy century, outlined in poetry
In “The Century,” poet Éireann Lorsung uses unconventional language to try to describe the horrors of history.
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Maine writers, poets and artists respond to ‘A Dangerous New World’
In the pages of this collection on climate change, loss, grief, hope – and calls to action – mingle.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101
Ferlinghetti became a household name in the 1950s when he stood trial on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s hallucinatory anti-establishment manifesto ‘Howl.’
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A spendy restaurant in Maine is the backdrop for love, loss and strife in Anne Britting Oleson’s latest novel
As the characters in ‘Cow Palace’ attempt to commit to one another, they reveal much about the human heart.
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Irrefutable and overwhelming absence in poet Deborah Cummins’ latest collection
Many of the 43 poems in ‘Until They Catch Fire” are responses to the death of her brother and her mother.
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Sadoff’s latest collection is beautiful, but problematic
The poems in ‘Country, Living’ fall “entirely within a world of the white male gaze.”
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Thirty years after he took his life, poet Peter Kilgore gets his due
‘Quarry,’ which collects his poems, evinces his keen awareness of place and offers a glimpse into the Portland cultural scene of the ’70s.