The Belfast Poetry Festival celebrates poetry and artistic possibility.

A fiercely independent community bookstore.

The Maine Arts Commission shall encourage and stimulate public interest and participation in the cultural heritage and cultural programs of our state; shall expand the state's cultural resources; and shall encourage and assist freedom of artistic expression for the well being of the arts, to meet the needs and aspirations of persons in all parts of the state.

The mission of the Maine Association of Nonprofits (MANP) is to strengthen the leadership, voice and organizational effectiveness of our state’s nonprofits so that they can better enrich the quality of community and personal life in Maine. MANP is a member of the national network of state associations across the country.

The Maine Center for Creativity (MCC) is about imagining how life in Maine is enriched by creativity and innovation. We work to foster collaborations that link creativity and innovation with business – with the goal of a more prosperous, creative Maine.

The Maine Historical Society preserves the heritage and history of Maine: the stories of Maine people, the traditions of Maine communities, and the record of Maine's place in a changing world.

Since 1975, the Maine Humanities Council has used literature, history, philosophy and the arts to provide opportunities for people to come together in conversation that crosses social, economic and cultural barriers.

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization that works to enrich the literary life and culture of Maine. We are the only statewide organization solely devoted to supporting and promoting Maine’s writers, publishers, booksellers, and literary professionals. The MWPA has a membership of more than 1,600.

Moon Pie Press has been publishing poetry books and anthologies since 2003.

Off the Coast, a quarterly journal by Resolute Bear Press, publishes poetry, artwork and reviews. Arranged much like an anthology, each issue bears a title drawn from a line or phrase from one of its poems.

ortland Public Library (PPL) is the city's cultural center, serving 675000 visitors annually at four locations and a bookmobile.

Port Veritas is a community based organization whose goal is to engage, enlighten, educate and entertain. Since the beginning, the focus has been to provide innovative and exciting outlets for people of all ages to create and experience performance art of all kinds.

One of the nation's most diverse, exciting, and rigorous low-residency MFA programs, the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing offers a superbly comprehensive yet thoroughly individualized two-year graduate education in the art of writing.

The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center in Portland, Maine, dedicated to the idea that children and young adults are natural storytellers.

The Maine Women Writers Collection (MWWC) is a permanently endowed special collection of published and unpublished literary, cultural, and social history sources by and about Maine women.

Words & Images is the student run publication put out annually by the University of Southern Maine. We aim to represent emerging artists and writers in the Maine community and beyond through publication.