Read your way through Maine this summer with our favorite books set in the Pine Tree State
POETRY-May 2011 Poem by Robert Pinsky Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Dan Daly The Favorite Poem Project Pinsky’s Passion: The Favorite Poem Project While serving as poet laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000, Robert Pinsky initiated
BOOKS-April 2011By Tyler Boucher and Sophie NelsonIllustration by Eric Hou Newly published from Maine: Recent favorites by local authors THE FOREMOST GOOD FORTUNESusan ConleyKnopf, February 2011With honesty and openness, Maine native Susan Conley details the bitter- sweet experience of moving
POETRY-April 2011 Poems by Wesley McNair and Shanna Mcnair Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Bridget Dunigan, Wyatt Barr, and Mike Grass National Poetry Month Throughout the month of April, all across America individuals and organizations take time to
POETRY-April 2011 Edited by Christopher Seid | Illustration by Dan Daly | Poem by Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky is one of America’s leading poets, critics, and scholars, and he is the author of numerous collections of poetry, prose, criticism,
BOOKS-January + February 2011 Illustration by Eric Hou Newly published from Maine: Recent favorites by local authors AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Maira Kalman An illustrated book for grown-ups that celebrates the history of the United States. This book
POETRY-January + February 2011 Poem by Elizabeth W. Garber Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Trevor Spaulding “The Tow Truck Driver’s Story” You meet all kinds of people in this work. You have to be polite, twenty-four hours a day.
POETRY-October 2010 Poem by Jeffrey Thomson Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Rockwell Kent “Poem Trying Not to Be a Nature Poem” The whales are the color of the ocean today, their backs rising like scissors through canvas, scarred with
POETRY-September 2010 Poem by Kate Barnes Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Yeshe Parks “Why Do You Ask?” I can’t make any story about my life tonight. The house is like an overturned wastebasket; the radio is predicting more
POETRY-August 2010 Poem by Dorianne Laux Edited by Christopher Seid Photograph by Sean Alonzo Harris “Boys in Summer” Their bodies like violas cast on the sand, some still damp from the ocean, salt grains clinging to their skin, etching
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