poetry

Published
January 25, 2023

Longfellow Days to celebrate famed poet after pandemic hiatus
Published
January 15, 2023

Poems of female agency and survival anchor Cate Marvin’s fourth collection

Amid the harrowing themes, several poems center on loving mother-daughter bonds.
Published
December 25, 2022

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.
Published
November 13, 2022

Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library

The prose poems in 'Antique Densities' are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
Published
September 18, 2022

Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Published
August 10, 2022

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.
Published
March 6, 2022

Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’

Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
Published
February 23, 2022

Deadline nears for Patten Free Library poetry contest
Published
February 6, 2022

Deep Water: ‘Synesthesia, by Mary Tracy

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Published
December 5, 2021

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.