After its absence at Maine’s gubernatorial inauguration, I wondered about poetry. Is it relevant? Experimenter, innovator, poet and doctor William Carlos Williams notes: “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day, for lack of what is found there.” Indeed, I wrote my way through an eating disorder, seeking […]

Today “Till the Stars Fall from the Sky: Songs from the Heart,” 2 p.m., Village Voices winter concert, Alfred Parish Church. Suggested donation $8; with non-perishable food item, $5. For more information, call Barbara Berry at 251-8703.  Sunday Bible conference, 8:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m., with Dr. Mark Bailey, president of Dallas Theological […]

Today Hands Around the Capitol, annual memorial recognizing the enactment of Roe v. Wade, starting at 10 a.m., with Mass, prayer service, rally and march. Visit www.mainerighttolife.com or call 782-0101. Holy Grounds Coffee House, 6:30 p.m., with the Christian rock group The John Edwards Ensemble from Wells. Church of the Holy Spirit, 1047 Congress St., […]

The new parishes are formed through mergers in York County and in the Bar Harbor area.

Don’t throw this away! Save it! Put it in your “for-when-I-am-going-to-need-it” file. Here’s poet John Ciardi’s translation of Dante’s opening words to his “Divine Comedy.” As you may know, Dante understood the spiritual life better than most. Dante’s pilgrim is the subject of the poem’s beginning. He is in the midst of a deep depression: […]