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POETRY – May 2015 The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center in Portland, asked young writers to submit poems and prose pieces that fit the theme Bodies of Water. Out of the many carefully crafted entries, jurors chose one
POETRY-May 2013 The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center in Portland, received hundreds of submissions for its writing contest this year. Middle and high school students from all over the state wrote poems and stories on the theme “Objects of
POETRY-April 2013 Poem by Richard Blanco Artwork: Schoodic Point by Anna Low “One Today” One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
POETRY-July 2012 Poem by Nathaniel Bellows Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Morgan Cremins “Field Work” You found in the pools of your binoculars the living twin of the painting above your desk. This one alive, its bright red wings
POETRY-June 2012 Poem by Megan Grumbling Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Sam Guay “Purge” in the Bethel sauna Supine and stripped, we’re bent in crooked thrall to yellow pine’s rash blaze and roar. Sludge seeps from us logged
POETRY-May 2012 Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc With the support of Longfellow Books, Maine magazine, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the Southern Maine Writing Project, the Telling Room received hundreds of submissions for its writing contest this year. Middle
POETRY-April 2012 Poem by Gabriel Fried Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Hannah Rosengren Melt, 2012, watercolor and ink on paper, 5.5″ x 4″ “Colony Collapse Disorder” Along Route 1, the youth of Maine have cocked their heads to hear the
POETRY-February Special Wedding Issue 2012 Poem by Melissa Crowe Edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc Artwork by Brittany Lawrance Hummingbird, 2011, watercolor, 7″ x 12″ “Epithalamium with Humming Bird” Naked as a joy- bird I feel the danger of this happy day
BOOKS-January + February 2012 By Sophie Nelson Illustration by Eric Hou Newly published from Maine: Recent favorites by local authors August Gale Barbara Walsh First inspired to report on the lives of her fishermen ancestors in Newfoundland,
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