Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Book review: ‘Wait: Poems from the Pandemic’ reveals our anxieties, longings and loneliness
In a ‘landscape transformed,’ Maine writers and artists describe pain, hope and ‘the boring parts of keeping us alive’ in these extraordinary times.
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Life Unwound: Poetry helps balance the meter of life
The first time I heard the word plethora, I sat in a teacher-development intensive course to practice stress reduction for my life passages, body aches and pains, aging, the slings and arrows the universe sends us all. I had completed years of study to learn to help others do the same. Our teachers talked about […]
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Amelia Earhart’s long-hidden poems reveal an enigma’s inner thoughts
Throughout the aviator’s public life, she was tenacious about guarding her privacy, including her desire to be a writer.
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Deep Water: ‘The Comfort in Named Things’ by Deborah Cummins
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Deep Water: ‘Margaritiferidae’ by Katherine Hagopian Berry
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Bedside Table: New biography of famed Maine poet sparks cherished memories
“I selected ‘Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,’ by Nicholas A. Basbanes, from the Kennebunk Free Library during the winter shutdown, not only for a Portland Press Herald write-up, but because it brought back memories of my Dad, a Longfellow scholar, born, raised and schooled in Boston, a few hundred years after […]
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A famous father casts shadows over painful memoir
In ‘Poetic License,’ the daughter of poet Richard Eberhart works to reconcile the love and loathing he inspired.
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An uneasy century, outlined in poetry
In “The Century,” poet Éireann Lorsung uses unconventional language to try to describe the horrors of history.
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Maine writers, poets and artists respond to ‘A Dangerous New World’
In the pages of this collection on climate change, loss, grief, hope – and calls to action – mingle.