Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jenny Doughty of Portland. A Maine litany By Jenny Doughty Praise tree-clad islands out in Casco Bay that look like single pendant emeralds strewn carelessly across a silver tray. Praise lichened boulders shouldering the shore, and sea-scoured pebbles ready to the hand to skim the waves. […]
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Maine Literary Awards finalists for 2019 announced
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance honor books published during 2018, as well as adult and youth manuscripts in drama, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ed Reilly of Westbrook. OUR MEETING By Ed Reilly Tall, spindly legs crossed the street, gliding, evanescent, almost a phantom, the legs, though, sufficient to identify this silent being as deer. Its brown body glowed like fog under a street light, gray, spectral, like a creature […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Thatcher of Falmouth. Crickets, Frogs, Fireflies, Owls, and Cosmos By Jim Thatcher Tonight, out here on the edge of this meadow I call my Star Field, where I come many nights to follow the constellations through their seasons, I am greeted not by the usual […]
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Senior college students publish first poetry book
The book is called “Wit, Wisdom and Whimsy” and is an anthology of poetry by students at USM Lewiston-Auburn Senior College.
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Poets Jane Brix and Betsy Scholl at next Bookey Readings
The poets will read at at the Harlow as part of its ongoing poetry series on May 17.
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UMA to present annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival
The daylong festival will take place on April 5 at the University of Maine at Augusta campus.
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Lewiston senior follows role model to win 2019 state Poetry Out Loud competition
Joao Victor, a senior at Lewiston High School, won the State of Maine 2019 Poetry Out Loud Finals, held Monday at the Waterville Opera House.
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Robert Petrillo of Westbrook. Zephyrus Unbound By Robert Petrillo A windstorm swept the region’s broken trees – the county’s roads and neighborhoods are strewn today with lifeless limbs and rough debris, the crumpled dead that from their homes were hewn. On carnage-matted ground the yellow […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Mike Bove of Portland and Southern Maine Community College. Taking Aim By Mike Bove Out over the worn path at the end of your road, we walked to the sand pit where you stopped short and put a rifle in my […]