The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writer Series and Emery Community Arts Center will present the group StarWound to UMF in a collaborative performance melding poetry and music. StarWound will perform its collaborative work in the Emery Performance Space on the UMF campus at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. The performance is free and […]
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Poetry and Hummus brings stories of humanity amid Gaza war
Former Virginia Poet Laureate Zeina Azzam and her brother read poetry that details their family’s history and its connection to Gaza and Palestine.
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Become versed in the history of Yarmouth’s poets with this walking tour
The Yarmouth History Center is offering a “poetry tour,” highlighting both published and amateur poets spanning back to the 1840s who had connections to the town.
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A book of poems set in Old Orchard Beach moves from the specific to the transcendent
‘Old Orchard’s Palace’ is poet Robert Gibbons closely observed second book about the town he lives in.
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Rockland Public Library to host discussion on transgender poets
The Rockland Public Library and Millay House Rockland will host “Conversations of the Century with the Trans Poetics Archive” at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 5, in the Community Room at Rockland Public Library. This event is free and open to all. In a heart-to-heart with Edna St. Vincent Millay and her suffrage poem, “I, being […]
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Patten Free Library opens fifth annual Poetry Walk
Patten Free Library’s fifth annual Poetry Walk runs through April in Bath’s Library Park. What began as a social-distancing program in 2021 has become an annual tradition looked forward to by the community and staff alike. “Each year, we install about 20 poems on yard sign style signs,” Hannah Lackoff, program and outreach manager and […]
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In ‘The Land Between the Rivers,’ an observer views Maine with a sharp eye
Todd R. Nelson’s 65 essays range in tone and subject matter, with poetry playing a big role.
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Poetry Unplugged: Registered Maine Guide offers workshop without screens
The course will offer the opportunity for students to develop their own poetic voice using a typewriter and composition off-screen.
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Deep Water: ‘Looking at My Landscape’ by John Paul Caponigro
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Maine poet laureate leads school workshop, judges poetry contest during Midcoast visit
Julia Bouwsma visited the Center for Teaching and Learning on Dec. 3 to connect with students and judge an evening poetry competition as part of her Write ME Epistolary Poetry Project.