In Verse: Maine Places and People

 

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Each Sunday Maine Poetry Central features, in The Sun Journal, one poem which is written by a Maine poet and which is "flavored" by the great state of Maine.  Submissions are ongoing so please see the submission guidelines on our home page!

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Poem appearing on 11/06/2016: "The Clam Diggers," Betsy Sholl

Poem appearing on 11/13/2016: "Having Bought the Farm," Bob MacLaughlin

Poem appearing on 11/20/2016: "Norman Lee," Claire Hersom

Poem appearing on 11/27/2016: "It's Gone," Kevin Sweeney

Poem appearing on 12/04/2016: "The Gift," Martin Steingesser

Poem appearing on 12/11/2016: "St. Madeleine of Biddeford," Jim Donnelly

Poem appearing on 12/18/2016: "Surfdancer," Jeri Thereault

Poem appearing on 12/25/2016: "Ice House,"  Bruce Guernsey

Poem appearing on 12/31/ 2016: "Seasons of the Field," Claire Hersom

Poem appearing on 1/ 15/2017:  "Lake Reunion," Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel

Poem appearing on 1/29/2017: "Hemlock," Megan Grumbling

Poem appearing on 2/05/ 2017: "Yankee Wardrobe," Michalene Hague

Poem appearing on 2/12/2017: "Watercolor Done by a Child Unknown," Ed Reilly

Poem appearing on 2/19/2017: "Birch Bark, Spruce Root," Valerie Lawson

Poem appearing on 2/26/2017: "Proceedings of the Photo Committee," Henry Braun

Poem appearing on 3/05/2017: "Impermanence," Doug Rawlings

Poem appearing on 3/12/2017:  "Shrove Tuesday Dinners," James McKenna

Poem appearing on 3/19/2017: "Ice Fishing," Bruce Guernsey

Poem appearing on 3/26/2017: "Mud Season," Alice Persons

Poem appearing on 4/02/2017: "Walking Blues," Jay Franzel

Poem appearing on 4/09/2017: "Song of Fog," Ellen Taylor

Poem appearing on 4/16/2017: "Some Words on Birds and Borders," Dennis Camire

Poem appearing on 4/23/2017: "Poem with a Title at Both Ends," Ted Bookey

Poem appearing on 4/30/2017: "Mount Mollyockett," Siiri Cressey

Poem appearing on 5/07/2017: "The Sea is What Gathers," Mark Melnicove

Poem appearing on 5/14/2017: "Belonging," Les Simon

Poem appearing on 5/21/2017:  "Pickerel Weed," Carl Little

Poem appearing on 5/28, 2017: "Reverie Along the Maine Rocky Coast, " Duane Pierson

Poem appearing on 6/4, 2017: "Old Orchard Beach," Dave Morrison

Poem appearing on 6/11/2017: "Sandy Beach, Otisfield," Eric Dibner

Poem appearing on 6/18/2017: "The Swim," Bruce Spang

Poem appearing on 6/25/2017: "His Wife Invites Him to the Brownfield Bog," David Moreau

Poem appearing on 7/02/2017: "A Comfortable Fog," Steve Luttrell

Poem appearing on 7/09/2017: "Bee Transport," Doug Woodsum

Poem appearing on 7/16/2017: "My Sister Looks at Nature," Ruth Bookey

Poems appearing on 7/23/2017: "Smalls Falls," Carol Gelland Frost and "Ferry in the Sunset," Kenneth Frost

Poem appearing on 7/30/2017: "Hurricane Weather," Susan Pellitier

Poem appearing on 8/06/2017: "Kathadin," Tom Fallon

Poem appearing on 8/13/2017: "Brown Nest with Blue Egg," Marita O'Neil

Poem appearing on 8/20/2017: "The Island of Yellow Houses," Carol-Lynn Rossel

Poem appearing on 8/27/2017: "Satellite Sky," Jim Mello

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