#mainepoet

I hope you can join me and other Maine poets on September 8th at the Farnsworth Art Museum library! More information below: #mainepoet#mainepoetry#millayhouse#millayfestival#mainepoetlaureate Press Release: Millay Arts & Poetry Festival 2018 The Millay Arts & Poetry Festival announces plans for a one-day celebration of Maine Poets, featuring more than a dozen established and emerging Maine poets in the Farnsworth Art Museum library, Saturday September 8, 2018. The program takes place in the museum library starting at 11 am and concluding at 4:30 pm. A reception with the poets follows at Harbor Square Gallery at 5:30. Both readings and reception are free and open to all. Winners of the Rockland Library Poetry Contest will open the program. Poets reading from their work include Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum, Former Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl, Rockland Poet Laureate Mary Jane Martin, and Belfast Poet Laureate Tom Moore. Also, Kristen Lindquist, Julia Bouwsma, David Morrison, David Paffhausen, Karin Spitfire, Elizabeth Garber, Mikhu Paul, Carol Dana, Joanna Hynd, Steve Luttrell, and Maine Poetry Out Loud winner Allan Monga. Musical interlude will be performed by composer and musician Malcolm Brooks. An Open House at the Millay birthplace at 198-200 Broadway in Rockland takes place the same day from 10 am – 4 pm. The public is invited to see progress to date of the restoration of the literary landmark. The final and third stage of the building fundraising campaign is under way. Millay House Rockland is a non-profit organization that champions poets and the literary arts. It celebrates the legacy of American Poet Edna St. Vincent born in Rockland, Maine on February 22, 1892. She grew up in Camden Maine and went on to win the Pulitzer Poetry Prize in 1923. Central to the mission is rejuvenating her birthplace -- a duplex in the heart of Rockland’s historical district. Join us in this project of saving place and promoting poetry in Maine. Visit www.millayhouserockland.org and [email protected], of Friends of Millay House Rockland on Facebook (at Farnsworth Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnKaqZVgeN1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wg4s55mde5h8

I took a walk by the water this morning & it reminded me of my first published poem from 2004. My English teacher had brought in a Poet-in-Residence named Martin Steingesser and he helped me edit this poem when I was 16 years old. This Winding River No emotion ever steady unending like time. Tiring & slow summer spent wasted for money clams unmudded tired parents, sailboats dance on bright lights hot days, warm nights on hard pine-coned land. Summers of water babies jumping off with exciting surges of energy, feet leaving wooden planks. Seals and seagulls scatter. Freezing water: underneath, our world disappears. Nothing exists except the feeling of the water. Alewives journey watching spectators gathered sociably, the journey reminding us our feat: trying to get ahead, environment suppressing us. A life growing up in the salty air, motorboats bouncing, roaring. Wooden hods & mesh bags filled, collecting languid heat. All of the clam gathering for rich New Yorkers, the people in mad scrambles trying to taste a piece of our world. Our world of hot tired summers getting dirty and money. Tiring and slow suppressing with heat, you have to live here to know this winding river. #waterpoem #midcoastart #mainepoet #martinsteingesser