Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Brunswick celebrates ‘rockstar’ poet after pandemic hiatus
Brunswick’s annual Longfellow Days returns in February after a 2-year hiatus, offering locals the chance to celebrate one of the Midcoast’s most influential figures and to enjoy contemporary poetry.
Longfellow Days to celebrate famed poet after pandemic hiatus
Longfellow Days, a monthlong Brunswick celebration of the famed American poet who lived in Brunswick as a student and later returned to teach at Bowdoin College, returns in February after a two-year pandemic hiatus. Throughout February — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s birth month — Brunswick will host cultural events spread across town that explore the poet’s […]
Poems of female agency and survival anchor Cate Marvin’s fourth collection
Amid the harrowing themes, several poems center on loving mother-daughter bonds.
A friendship in life and words
An old friend takes stock of a new Wes McNair collection, which caps a decades-long career in poetry.
Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library
The prose poems in ‘Antique Densities’ are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Houshang Ebtehaj, prominent Iranian poet, dies at 94
Ebtehaj contributed to the popularity of the ghazal – a traditional form of Persian poetry set to music that expresses the writer’s feelings, especially about love, with moving intensity.
Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’
Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
Deadline nears for Patten Free Library poetry contest
Local poets have until March 1 to submit their work to a new competition at Bath’s Patten Free Library. The contest is a new addition to the Library Park Poetry Walk, which will run for the second time this April. Competitors from the library’s service area should submit a 1-12 line poem with a hopeful […]