Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carl Little of Somesville. His most recent book is “Ellsworth Suite.”   To the Lady Who Sets Out Lawn Ornaments Every Morning By Carl Little   Alpha leader, how lost in thought you seem, placing black silhouettes of dogs wearing neck bandannas across the grass, arranging […]

This week’s poem is by Richard Foerster of Cape Neddick. His most recent book is “River Road,” published by Texas Review Press.   Shorebirds in October By Richard Foerster   The waves retreat, leaving a steam-rolled stretch down Long Sands Beach, where a sea-soaked Irish setter is chasing a flock of sandpipers. The dog thinks Go […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Preston Hood of Alfred. His most recent book is “The Hallelujah of Listening,” published by Cervena Barva Press.   Ultramarine By Preston Hood   Icy blue to walk on; it’s autumn in the marsh; flamingos migrate one thousand miles to the Atlantic of fish & breaching […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Thatcher of Yarmouth. His most recent book is “Lesser Eternities,” published by Deerbrook Editions.   Horse Tale By Jim Thatcher   On that summer afternoon when he was six years old and they told him that those high many-plumed grasses out on the frontier between the […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Sonja Johanson of Bethel. Her most recent book is “Trees in Our Dooryard” published by Red Bird Chapbooks.   By Yourself By Sonja Johanson   There used to be a zoo on the island, for the tourists. They had baby lynx, fallow deer, colobus monkeys. In […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Lisa Moore of Harrison.   Pickling beets By Lisa Moore   The steamy vinegar makes me cry.      Let a tear fall into the kettle. Is the fire hot enough?      Yes, the pine makes it burn quick. Look, the skins are falling off.   […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Mello of Bangor. His most recent book is “All Four Seasons,” published by Moon Pie Press.   Satellite Sky By Jim Mello   Lying there face up      as the stars deepened we joked      about           whether the […]

Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carol-Lynn Rossel of Winthrop.   The Island of Yellow Houses Islesboro, Maine By Carol-Lynn Rossel   There was a day they didn’t roam: up-islanders beyond the cove, moneyed bunch below, their cottages behind stern signs and walls piled high by those who […]

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Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Marita O’Neill. Her most recent book is “Evidence of Light,” published by Moon Pie Press.   Brown Nest with Blue Egg By Marita O’Neill   I. Knocking us back on our couch, fragments of news: marble and stone billow into clouds of dust […]