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Leslie Moore, of Belfast, seems to be building up something of a following for her poetry and printmaking work, and her new book, “Grackledom,” is likely to further expand her community of readers.

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — A California native who studied and refined her art skills while making a career of teaching English around the world, Leslie Moore is now a full-time poet

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

On the surface, writing and drawing seem like different skills. Being able to capture the essence of something both in words and with a graphite pencil,

Leslie Moore’s animal worlds

Regardless of your level of enthusiasm for Star Trek: Picard, if you have any interest at all in the future of the Trek universe in the wake of Star Trek: Nemesis—specifically, the fates of William Riker, Deanna Troi, and yes, albeit tangentially, Jean-Luc Picard himself—you must read this book. I went in having watched, and re-watched, key moments of Picard, and having read and written about the first Star Trek: Picard novel, Una McCormack’s The Last Best Hope. While that knowledge...