Poetry. Photography.
Jeanne Julian
Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
The Maine Poets Society
Celebrating the enduring legacy
This anthology of poetry by current members honors the society's 90th anniversary. Poets Jenny Doughty, Bill Frayer, Gus Peterson, Debbie Smith, Ellen White, and I served as editors. Over 55 poets are represented.
Woman in bistro, New York, NY
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A video of my poem "The Color of It" that's in included in the anthology From Pandemic to Protest, released fall 2021 from The Poetry Box.
...Those old-time animators knew how
to deepen the droll into drama with ink.
—from
"Pencil and Ladder,"
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Sunrise, Acadia National Park, Maine
News see also: News Archive
- Thrilled that editor Andrew Ferguson has nominated my poem "Pencil and Ladder" for a Pushcart Prize--the first such nomination from his fine journal Penstricken, available online and in paper. Thank you, Andrew!
- Poems are up at Union Spring Literary Review (one a tribute to you, Karen—I think of you often) and at Perfume River Poetry Review issue 7 with the theme of "dreams."
- The art work in this issue of Superpresent is astonishingly good—humbling. My poem's there, too.
- I'm honored that my poem “We Won’t Be: an abecdedarian” was selected as one of the 10 finalists for this year’s Maine Postmark contest, part of the Belfast Poetry Festival.
- Recent publications: "Near Deaths (and aftermaths) in Quartet Journal; "The Astronaut’s Mysterious Renunciation of the Rock-solid" and "Postscript to an Unsent Letter" in Bloodroot Poetry Journal; "From Here to There" in Silkworm 19; "Garden Remembered" in Kakalak 2026.
Le musicien disparu, Quebec City, Canada
Carousel horse, Cumberland, Maine
Quotations for writers
“But his mood would shift dramatically. I don’t remember the scene, but I will never forget Mike’s [Mike Nichols, director] acid voice saying to me, after one take: 'What were you doing?' I tried to defend myself: I’d been taught that to give your character depth, you don’t play the text—you play the subtext, which can sometimes be the opposite of the text. 'Well, do me a favor,' Mike said. 'The next time you get a thought, do the opposite of that.' It was a terrible experience making the movie that changed my life."
—Dustin Hoffman, "Surviving The Graduate," The New Yorker, October 31, 2026