Jeanne Julian

Where are all the souls
whose Mount Pleasant gravestones—
far from marking any final rest—
are carved with Lost At Sea?
—from"From Away,"

in The Main Street Rag

Sunrise, Acadia National Park, Maine

​​​Quotations for writers

 “Be willing to write past your own endings in a poem. Don’t stop once the poem clicks shut or “feels done.” Keep the clay wet, aim for surprise, and keep getting out of your comfort zone.”—Mattew Gellman in Poets & Writers 

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Poetry.  Photography.

Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

- My poem "Letter to Snowbirds" is included in the anthology Connecting Nature, published by the Eastport (Maine) Arts Center.

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- Here's a link to a poem that's a eulogy for the late novelist Alfred Kern, one one of my writing teachers:  "Mentor" in Streetlight Magazine.

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.

- Thanks to co-editors Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler for their swiftness in responding to the submission of my poem "We Are Nature." And thanks for including it in their Gallery, one of many poems under consideration for their planned print anthology The Nature of Our Times:Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, 
Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders.

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Thanks to Pink Panther Magazine!

Girl in Pink, Harpswell, Maine

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Pride Parade Flag Launch, Portland, Maine

Entrance, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art