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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES |
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Northlight Books
1090 Main St.
Blue Hill, ME
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
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
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38 Exchange St.
Portland, ME
All's Well Book Corp
45 Wells Plaza
Wells, ME
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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 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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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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Visitors from Maine Enjoy ... |
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Most Popular Poems
1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...
2. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...
3. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...
4. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...
5. Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams...
6. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten / the plums...
7. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
8. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...
9. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...
10. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...
(Popularity based on Poets.org traffic data.) |
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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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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.
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. |
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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.
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. |
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