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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES |
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Northlight Books
1090 Main St.
Blue Hill, ME
Bates Bookstore
56 Campus Avenue
Lewiston, ME 04240
(207) 786-6121
Betts Books
584 Hammond Street
Bangor, ME 04401
(207) 947-7052
Blue Hill Books
26 Pleasant Street
Blue Hill , ME 04614
(207) 374-5632
Book Stacks
71 Main St.
Bucksport, ME 04416
(207) 469-8992
Books and Things
430 Main Street
Norway, ME 04268
(207) 739-6200
Brunswick Bookland
8 Gurnet Rd.
Cook's Corner Shopping Center
Brunswick, ME
Gulf of Maine Books
134 Maine St
Brunswick, ME
(207) 729-5083
Calais Bookshop
405 Main Street
Calais, ME
(207) 454-1110
Sherman's Books and Stationery
stores in Bar Harbor, Boothbay Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Freeport, ME
Kennebunk Book Port
45 Portland Road
Suite 2-B
Shopper's Village
Kennbunk, ME 04043
(207) 467-3300
Owl & Turtle Bookshop
8 Bayview St.
Camden, ME
Book Review
Falmouth Shopping Center
251 US Route 1
Falmouth, ME
Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers
193 Broadway
Farmington, ME
Port in a Storm Bookstore
1112 Main St.
Mount Desert, ME
Books Etc.
38 Exchange St.
Portland, ME
The Colby Bookstore
Cotter Union, 5400 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
(800) 727-8506
Longfellow Books
One Monument Way
Portland, ME 04101
(207) 772-4045
Royal River Books
355 Main Street
Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-8006
All's Well Book Corp
45 Wells Plaza
Wells, ME
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LITERARY MAP |
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Available from Maine Writer's and Publisher's Alliance, 12 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, ME 04011, (207) 729-6333. |
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Poet Laureate |
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Betsy Sholl
Maine's third Poet Laureate, Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl was appointed to a five-year term in 2006. Originally from Portland, Maine, Sholl teaches at Stonecoast Writers Conference, the Frost Place, and Vermont College. |
More information on this state's laureateship |
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Featured Maine Poets |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, Edwin Arlington Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, in 1869. As a child he lived in Gardiner, which became the backdrop for many of his poems. |
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Philip Booth
The landscape of New England, particularly the coast of Maine, occupies a place of primary importance in Philip Booth's poetry. A 1963 Academy of American Poets Fellow, Booth lives in his childhood home in Maine. |
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Tory Dent
Tory Dent was the author of three books, most famously HIV, Mon Amour, which detailed her struggle with the disease. She lived in New York City and Maine until her death in 2005. |
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Louise Bogan
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Annie Finch
Dorianne Laux
Denise Levertov
Edna St. Vincent Millay
May Sarton
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Literary organizations & centers |
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Maine Arts Commission
The Maine Arts Commission maintains a directory of Maine artists and arts organizations and a statewide events calendar, as well as Arts in Education, Community Arts & Humanities, and individual fellowship and apprenticeship programs.
Maine Humanities Council
The Maine Humanities Council houses the Maine Center for the Book, which offers literacy programs for children and adults and professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers of literature.
Maine Lit Ring
The Maine Lit-Ring is the exclusive directory of reputable Maine literature online resources such as libraries, organizations, literary journals and personal pages for researchers and lovers of Maine literature.
Maine Poetry
The Maine Poetry website offers poems by classic and contemporary poets from the state; and features biographies, photographs, bibliographies, bookstore information, and a list of literary journals published in Maine.
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance hosts writers' workshops throughout the state, public readings, contests, and an annual writers' retreat. They publish Maine In Print, an anthology of Maine writers, as well as the Maine Literary Marketplace, and Eating Between the Lines: A Maine Writers' Cookbook.
The National Poetry Foundation
Founded in 1971 at the University of Maine, the National Poetry Foundation is now internationally known as the foremost publisher of scholarly work on Ezra Pound and the Pound tradition, as well as the acclaimed Man/Woman and Poet Series. They publish two scholarly journals, Paideuma, a journal devoted to Ezra Pound scholarship, and Sagetrieb, a journal devoted to poets in the Imagist/Objectivist tradition.
SpiritWords/Maine Poetries Collaborative
Spiritwords is a small, but statewide, multicultural network which embraces all poetic voices. They sponsor the Maine Poetry & Story Exchange and periodically honors writers from selected Maine cultural communities. |
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Writing programs & colonies |
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Stonecoast M.F.A. Program
Part of the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast is a low-residency program that offers one-to-one tutorials in poetry. Semesters begin with ten-day residencies at the historic Stone House on the breathtakingly beautiful coast of Maine. Notable faculty members include, among many wonderful others, Kazim Ali, Annie Finch, Jeffrey Harrison, and Dennis Nurske.
Bates College
English majors may elect a program in creative writing. This program is intended to complement and enhance the English major and to add structure and a sense of purpose to those students already committed to creative writing. Students who wish to write a creative thesis must undertake this program.
University of Maine at Farmington
UMF's B.F.A. in Creative Writing is the only degree of its kind in Maine, and one of only three in the New England Regional Student Program and offers a strong combination of writing and literature courses in the context of liberal arts study.
The University of Maine
The Concentration in Creative Writing allows student to focus on the writing of fiction, poetry and/or creative non-fiction, in addition to receiving graduate-level training in literature and literary criticism. Graduate creative writing courses combine workshop situations with one-on-one instruction and enable students to work closely with practicing professionals. The New Writing Series offers a lively schedule of readings throughout the year. Students in the concentration may give public readings on campus and contribute editorial assistance to the graduate literary magazine, The Stolen Island Review.
University of Southern Maine
The English Department offers a Minor in Writing for both English majors and non-majors. The minor consists of tracks in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and journalism. The goal of the Writing Minor is to direct student attention to writing offerings while recommending a productive sequence of writing courses and collateral craft-oriented textual studies courses.
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Poetic History |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay's hometown: Camden, ME
At the foot of Mt. Battie in Camden is the Whitehall Inn, where Millay recited 'Renascence' to a captivated audience. |
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The Graves of Poets
It is believed that the lines "crimson leaves upon the wall" in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Luke Havergal" refer to the ivy on the western fence of Oak Grove Cemetery, where the poet is now buried. |
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Poems about Maine |
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Renascence
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
All I could see from where I stood...
Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets
by David Young
It's summer, 1956, in Maine, a camp resort...
Marin
by Philip Booth
Marin / saw how it feels...
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Literary journals & small presses |
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The Accompanist
An independent literary magazine emphasizing the role of community in the making of art, and is a product of the dialogue between these various voices. First published by a transient/vanity press in the spring of 2000, the journal has grown to include and reach a local, national and international readership.
Aroostook Review
The Aroostook Review is the online literary journal of the English Program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is a nonprofit cooperative poetry press, founded in 1973. The cooperative selects manuscripts for publication through both regional and national competitions: the New England/New York Award, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.
Beloit Poetry Journal
For over fifty years of continuous publication, Beloit Poetry Journal has been distinguished for the extraordinary range of its poetry and for its discovery of strong new poets. In 2000 it commemorated its fiftieth anniversary with a celebratory anthology, A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal.
The Cafe Review
A quarterly print poetry review from Portland which publishes new strong voices in yet presents the works of well respected poets.
Moon Pie Press
Moon Pie Press is a small Maine press started in 2003 which publishes quality poetry books.
Off the Coast
Founded in 1996, OTC accepts submissions of poetry (any subject or style), graphics, and books for review.
Puckerbrush Review
A print-only literary journal edited and published since 1978. PR publishes quality poetry, short stories, literary essays and reviews.
Wolf Moon Press
Wolf Moon Press: A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion is a Web and print publication out of Winthrop that features essays and poetry as well as movie, art, book, and theater reviews.
Stolen Island Review
Stolen Island Review is the literary magazine edited by graduate students of the University of Maine English Department. SIR is in its 16th year of annual publication, providing a forum for University of Maine students and staff, community members, and creative artists nationwide.
Words and Images Journal
Words and Images is a literary journal published by the University of Southern Maine. What is now called Words and Images was once called Presumpscot Review. And The Review. And The Portland Review. The earliest found copy dates back to 1976.
WT Chronicles
The WT Chronicles is a Portland, Maine based publication celebrating working class writing and art, and attempts to explore the conditions of poverty that many Americans live under. We loosely center each edition around a topics such as work, drug and alcohol abuse, growing up poor, or love.
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Reading series, conferences, and literary festivals |
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UMaine New Writing Series
Since it began in the fall of 1999, the UMaine New Writing Series has hosted more than a hundred poetry and fiction readings at the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono. Conceived as an instrument for investigating the whole spectrum of possibilities for contemporary work in poetry, prose, translation, and the new media, the NWS puts an emphasis on innovative, adventurous, and/or unduly neglected writing.
Maine Literary Festival
Begun in 2005, the Maine Literary Festival offers readings and workshops with award-winning writers from diverse cultures and ethnic experiences. The Festival is a scholarship project of the Midcoast Branch of the American Association of University Women. All proceeds from the Festival are used for the Midcoast AAUW's scholarship program for young women and girls who might otherwise not be able to attend college. |
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