The subject matter is serious, but the language in Adrian Blevins’ ‘Status Pending’ is often playful.
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Brunswick to host 20th annual celebration of Maine poet Longfellow
Readings, a book launch and a Bowdoin a cappella concert are among the events to look forward to next month in Brunswick.
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A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser’s memoir, ‘The Road Washes Out in Spring,’ was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
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Deep Water: ‘My Brother’s Thirteenth Halloween,’ by Ken Craft
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Ambling through Old Orchard Beach, poet makes connections to past
Robert Gibbons’ latest collection is based in his adopted hometown.
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Portland publisher launches new poetry festival
Littoral Books is putting on it first Portland Poetry Festival on Saturday.
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One of Maine’s most famous poets was a brilliant and witty charmer … with an edge
A complex portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay emerges from two new collections of her letters and diaries.
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Poet Rita Dove to receive an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement
Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
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Vitality Ghosted by Pain: A New Poetry Collection from Betsy Sholl
In ‘As If A Song Could Save You,’ Maine’s former poet laureate writes of grief at the loss of her husband to COVID.
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Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration banned by Florida school
While book bans are not new, they are happening much more frequently, especially in Florida – where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has championed policies that allow the censorship of books.