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
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- 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
“I became keenly aware that what I was writing would, soon enough, be abandoned, left to rot, banished to a state of suspended inadequacy. If this was a severely uncomfortable feeling, it also contained a trace of joy. Merely by shifting the emphasis away from the result, I found that I paid more attention to the actual act of creation—and thus reclaimed some of the thrilling freedom of a true first draft…. It suddenly occurred to me that the decision before me was not really about whether or not I would fail. Or at least it didn’t have to be. Yes, I could just as easily consider this a chance to succeed, couldn’t I?”—Andrew Lipstein, "My Year of O.C.D.," The New Yorker, October 17, 2026
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