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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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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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.
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‘Bookey Readings’ poetry series features Pondtown Poets
The popular “Bookey Readings” poetry series will continue at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, at the Bailey Public Library in Winthrop. The “Pondtown Poets,” founded in 2003, will be the featured poets at the event. The group was founded by Winthrop native Susan Parks and takes their name from the history of Winthrop. The […]
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Maine poet Richard Blanco among arts luminaries honored by Biden
The Maine poet and author receives a National Humanities Medal at a White House ceremony.
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Gov. Mills pushes the power of poems – and writes them, too
As governor, Janet Mills served on a committee that selected the state’s current poet laureate, Julia Bouwsma, and she restored poetry to inaugurations.
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Read a few poems Gov. Mills wrote over the years
Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says poems ‘elevate our soul.’
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Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library
The prose poems in ‘Antique Densities’ are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
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Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.