Of all genres of writing, poetry has to be the most subjective, the most deeply personal. Certainly many memoirs reveal heartfelt confessions, but that's for the writer; it's rarely as personal for ...

These poems by Mainers appeared in “Notes from an Open Book,” a monthly e-newsletter of the Maine Humanities Council. SMELT SHACKS By Joseph Coleman The frost-heaved road lined with cord on cord of ...

There’s something magical about seeing the remnants left from a past life. That’s what Stanley Buchthal taps into with “Fragments,” which includes handwritten notebooks, notes, letters and poems ...

TIME was when a poet with so clearly American a quality as Robert Frost would have been hailed as a Yankee Vergil, Theocritus, Burns, or what you will. Now it may be said that an American is striking ...