Ferlinghetti became a household name in the 1950s when he stood trial on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s hallucinatory anti-establishment manifesto ‘Howl.’
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A spendy restaurant in Maine is the backdrop for love, loss and strife in Anne Britting Oleson’s latest novel
As the characters in ‘Cow Palace’ attempt to commit to one another, they reveal much about the human heart.
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Irrefutable and overwhelming absence in poet Deborah Cummins’ latest collection
Many of the 43 poems in ‘Until They Catch Fire” are responses to the death of her brother and her mother.
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Sadoff’s latest collection is beautiful, but problematic
The poems in ‘Country, Living’ fall “entirely within a world of the white male gaze.”
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Thirty years after he took his life, poet Peter Kilgore gets his due
‘Quarry,’ which collects his poems, evinces his keen awareness of place and offers a glimpse into the Portland cultural scene of the ’70s.
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Taking a walk? Recite a poem to keep you company
A journalist vows to memorize poetry ‘maybe just for the pleasure of the language, the entirely new way of looking at the world.’
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Portland nonprofit provides place for youth to express themselves
The Youth Voices Matter open mic series starts Oct. 11
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Portland poet, 92, writes about climate change, degradation of Earth
Jackie Moore avoids sentimentality and presents nature with a sense of awe, wonder and despair.
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Deep Water: ‘History Lesson’ by Christopher Locke
Maine poems edited and introduced by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.
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A career fighting fires and a famous friend inspire Brunswick poet
Former Boston firefighter Bobby Breen, who served as a muse for Irish poet Seamus Heaney, published his third collection this month.