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AUGUSTA — The 22nd annual Plunkett Maine Poetry Festival, a celebration of emerging and established poets and poetry, is set for Saturday, April 27, at the University of Maine at Augusta. It will be held both in Jewett Hall at 46 University Drive, and online. This year’s keynote speaker is Brian Turner, a poet, musician, […]

Reflections on the life and legacy of John Preston

Littoral Books is putting on it first Portland Poetry Festival on Saturday.

The novel tracks the search for a lost book within the book, also called 'Monkey,' as well as the writer of that unusual book.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic politician or even a former tough-minded prosecutor. But there’s another side to the governor — she’s a poet.“If more politicians knew poetry,...

Two of her early poems were published in 1975 in “Balancing Act: A Book of Poems by Ten Maine Women,” compiled by Agnes Bushell.

Maines governor is a politician — and a poet

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic politician or even a former tough-minded

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/poetic-politician-maine-governors-skills-include-verse/"></div>AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Many Mainers know Democratic Gov. Janet Mills as a level-headed leader, a pragmatic politician or even a former tough-minded prosecutor. But there’s another side to the governor — she’s a poet. “If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little be...

 Agnes Bushell’s latest novel is in some ways a very conventional, and in other ways a very peculiar book.