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
- 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; and "Pencil and Ladder" in Penstricken's themed issue on "descent."
Le musicien disparu, Quebec City, Canada
Carousel horse, Cumberland, Maine
Quotations for writers
“Believe in your work! No rejection slip should ever dissuade you from continuing to submit your poetry. Keep poetry alive in your heart.”
—Carolyn Ostrander, editor, The Comstock Review
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