Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by the late Henry Braun of Weld playfully explores how one can still feel like a newcomer despite living in our beloved state for 30 years.   Proceedings of the Photo Committee Weld, Maine 1992 By Henry Braun   No one is smiling in these […]

I am not ashamed of my sexual experiences. That is a revolutionary statement for an unmarried woman raised in evangelical churches at the height of “purity culture,” when the definitive book for teens to read was Josh Harris’s “I Kissed Dating Goodbye.” I’ve had sex, and I’m not married, and I am not ashamed.And yet, […]

Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by Valerie Lawson of Robbinston explores the intimate and sacred craft of building birch-bark canoes.   Birch Bark, Spruce Root For David Moses Bridges By Valerie Lawson   If you don’t find what you need,  dig deeper, pry the bark open, unearth the roots, […]

Q: We recently painted our brick fireplace white and would like to hang a 40-pound mirror on it. What would you recommend to secure the mirror to the fireplace wall? A: If the mirror has wire for hanging across the back, use hook-style picture hangers with Wall-Dog screws, which hold well in brick. Or, if […]