Maine poetry

Maine Poets & Their Books

The books of Maine poets may be purchased
at independent Maine bookstores.


David Adams - First Light (2003) Goose River Press

Richard Aldridge - Richard Aldridge: Poems, chapbook, (1957); An Apology Both Ways (1957); Down Through The Clouds, The Sea (1963); The Wild White Rose; Poems (1974); Red Pine, Black Ash (1980); and Driving North (1989). The Poems of Richard Aldridge (2001). Editor/compiler, Maine Lines; 101 Contemporary Poems about Maine (1970); Poetry Amherst; a Sesquicentennial Anthology of Poems by Alumni of Amherst College (1972); Speaking of New England: The Place & Her People: 72 Poems by 56 of Her Poets Past and Present (1993).

Elizabeth Akers Allen - Forest Buds, from the Woods of Maine (1856), written under the pseudonym Florence Percy; Poems (1866/1868); Queen Catherine's Rose (1885); The Triangular Society: Leaves From the Life of a Portland Family (1886), her only novel; The silver bridge, and other poems (1886); "Gold nails" to hang memories on: a rhyming review, under their Christian names, of acquantances in history, literature, and friendship (1890; editor); The high-top sweeting, and other poems (1891); the pamphlet The proud lady of Stavoren: a legend of the Zuyder Zee (1897); The Ballad of the Bronx (1901); Sunset Song and other verses (1902).

Kate Barnes - Maine's First Poet Laureate. Crossing the Field, chapbook; Where the Deer Were (Godine, 2000); Kneeling Orion (Godine, 2004).

Arlo Bates - Serenade, Before the Dawn, When Allah Spoke, Where Blooms the Rose, Sonnets in Shadow (1887); The Poet and His Self (1891).

Jim Bishop - Mother Tongue (Contraband Press, 1975); Jim Bishop Reads (CD of original poetry, Vox Audio, 2008).

Louise Bogan - Body of This Death (1923); Dark Summer (1929); The Sleeping Fury (1937); Poems & New Poems (1941); Collected Poems 1923-1953 (1954); The Blue Estuaries: Poems 1923-1968 (1968); A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art & Vocation (1970). Editor, The Golden Journey: Poems for Young People (1965). Translated poems of Goethe, Elective Affinities, (1963); Ernst Junger's The Glass Bees, (1960).

Ted Bookey - Mixty Motions, (Nightshade Press); The Selected Poetry of Erich Kästner, selected and translated from the German by Ted and Ruth Bookey (Red Dancefloor Press); Language as a Second Language (Moonpie Press); Lostalgia (MoonPie Press 2007); How Many Cars Have We Been Married? Poetry from the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta, edited by Ted Bookey (MoonPie Press 2008).

Philip Booth - Letters from a Distant Land (1957); The Islanders (1961); Weathers and Edges (1966); Margins (1970); Available Light (1976); Before Sleep (1980); Relations: Selected Poems, 1950-1985 (1986); Selves (1990); Pairs (1994); Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen (1996); Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999 (1999/2000); Crossing (2001); and Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999

Dennis Camire - "bio-luminescing", (Sheltering Pines Press).

William Carpenter - The House of Morning; Rain; Speaking Fire at Stones

Thomas Carper - Fiddle Lane; From Nature, Meter and Meaning.

Troy Casa - White Reflects the Sun, (eChapbook); stark realities that surround texas, (Wordrunner Press, 2005).

Edith Cheitman - Swimmer Dreaming (2001) chapbook.

Robert Chute - Androscoggin Too: The Pejepscot Poems (1996); Barely Time to Study Jesus: The Nat "Turner" Revolt (1996); Quiet Thunder: Poems from a Bates College Reading (1973); Samuel Sewall Sails for Home: Poetry (Maine Arts Commission 1986 Chapbook Award winner); Thirteen Moons (1982/2000 as three-language edition), which was published in French as Treize Lunes and in Passamaquoddy as 'Sanku Kisuhsok . Other titles are Uncle George: Poems from a Maine Boyhood (1990); Voices Great and Small (1977); When Grandmother Decides to Die (1989); and Woodshed on the Moon: Thoreau Poems (1991). edited Gunner’s Moon (1996), a collection of poems by Roy Zarucchi; Cat Tails :cat poems and photographs by Robert M. Chute (Just Write Books, 2008).

Elizabeth Coatsworth - Fox Footprints (1923); Atlas and Beyond (1924); Compass Rose (1929); Country Poems (1942); and Summer Green (1948); Sung under the Silver Umbrella: Poems for Young Children (1935), with poems by Rachel Field, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Laura E. Howe Richards.

Robert P. Tristram Coffin - Christchurch (1924); Dew & Bronze (1927); Golden Falcon (1929); The Yoke of Thunder (1932); Ballads of Square-Toed Americans (1933); Strange Holiness (1935; won Pulitzer); Fifteen Girls on a Hobby Horse (1937; collection of short stories and poems); Saltwater Farm (1937); Maine Ballads (1938); There Will Be Bread and Love (1942); Primer for America (1943); Poem for a Son with Wings (1945); Apples By Ocean (1945/1950); People Behave Like Ballads (1946); Collected Poems (1948); One-Horse Farm: Down East Georgics (1949); The Third Hunger and the Poem Aloud (1949); Poems That Write the Poet (1953; poetic text of a lecture at Haverford College, given 1898); Hellas Revisted (1954; a collection by Coffin's friends); Selected Poems (1955).

Leo Connellan - Penobscot Poems (1974); Another Poet in New York (1975): Crossing America (1976); First Selected Poems (1976); Death in Lobster Land: New Poems (1978); The Gunman and Other Poems; Massachusetts Poems (1981);
Shatterhouse (1983); The Clear Blue Lobster-Water Country: A Trilogy (1985); New and Collected Poems (1989); Provincetown, and Other Poems (1995); Short Poems, City Poems, 1944-1998 (1998?); The Maine Poems (1999).

H. R. Coursen - Storm in April (1973): Lookout Point: Poems (1974): Survivor: Poems (1974); Inside the Piano Bench (1975); Fears of the Night: Poems (1976); Walking Away (1977); Hope Farm: New and Selected Poems (1979); After the War (1981); Winter Dreams: poems (1982); Rewriting the Book: Poems (1987); Rewinding the Reel (1989); Songs and Sonnets: New Poems (1991); Five Minutes After "Mayday": Poems (1992); Love Poems (Sort Of) (1993); Graves of the Poets (1993; photos of poets' graves, accompanied by their own poems and Coursen's); Recalling August (1995); New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (1996); The Green of Spring, and Other Poems (1997); Songs and Seasons: New Poems (1997)
History Lessons (1998); Poems from "The Metamorphoses" (1998); Mythos: New and Selected Poems: 1966-1999 (1999); Mirros (1999); Winter Music (2001); The Greatest Game Ever Played (chapbook; 2001); Another Thursday (2002).

Terry Crouch - (as Terrell Hunter) - Day Dreaming at Night (1988); Bite the Night: Selected Poems (1992); and Down at the Margin: Selected Poems (1996).

Holman Day - Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse (1900); Pine Tree Ballads: Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' Up in Maine (1902), Kin o' Ktaadn: Verse Stories of the Plain Folk... (1904)

Anthony Taylor Dunn - Sunbathing on the Bottom of the Atlantic (2005).

Fannie Eckstorm - Minstrely of Maine: Folksongs and Ballads.

Ted Enslin - The Work Proposed (1958); The Place Where I Am Standing: Poems (1964); Barometric Pressure 29.83 and Steady (a play, produced in New York in 1965); To Come, To Have Become (1966; won the Hart Crane Award); New Sharon's Prospect & Journals (1966); This Do [And The Talents (1966; aka The Talents); The Diabelli Variations and Other Poems (1967); Characters in Certain Places (1967); 2/30-6/31: Poems, 1967 (1968); Agreement, and Back: Sequences (1969); Forms (1970-1974; aka The Experiences and The Tessaract); The Poems (1970); Views 1-7 (1970); The Country of Our Consciousness (1971); Etudes (1972); Views (1973); In the Keeper's House (1973); With Light Reflected: Poems 1970-1972 (1973); The Last Days of October (1974); The Mornings (1974); Sitio (1974); Fever Poems (1974); Ländler (1975); Mahler (1975; extended essay); The Median Flow: Poems, 1943-1973; Synthesis 1-24 (1975/1979); Some Pastorals: A New, Year's, Cycle for Jake (1975); The July Book (1976); Papers (1976); Carmina (1976); Ascensions (1977); Circles (1977); Concentrations (1977); The Further Regions (1977); 16 Blossoms in February (1978); Tailings (1978); Ranger (1978/1980); 2 Plus 12 (1979); Opus 31, No. 3 (1979); May Fault (1979; Great Raven Press in Fort Kent); A Root in March: For Paul Metcalf (1979; Univ. of Maine, Presque Isle); The Fifth Direction (1980); Star Anise (1980); The Flare of Beginning is in November (1980); Two Geese: Two Poems (1980); Markings (1981); Processionals (1981); In Duo Concertante (1981); Knee Deep in the Atlantic (1981); Opus O (1981); Axes 52 (1981); September's Bonfire (1981); "F.P." (1982); To Come Home (To) 1976-1979 (1982; Great Raven Press); Fragments --- Epigrammata (1982); Meditations on Various Grounds (1982); A Man in Stir (1983; graphics by Bill Nelson); Songs Without Notes: Poems (1984); Music for Several Occasions (1985); Path Between (1986); Weather within: In Memoriam George Oppen (1986); Case Book (1987/1988); From Near the Great Pine (1988/1989); Love and Science (1990/1991); Music in the Key of C (1995); Skeins (1998); Conversations (1998); Then, and Now: Selected Poems 1943-1993 (1998/1999; edited by Mark Nowak; Re-sounding: Selected Later Poems (1999); Sequentiae (1999); Nine (2000).

Abbie Huston Evans - Outcrop, Forward by Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1928); Bright North (1938); Fact of Crystal (1961); Collected Poems (1970).

Chris Fahy - The End Beginning.

Tom Fallon - In the Silence, (Experimental); Pregnant Man 1, (Experimental, Red Dust 3, NYC); Through a Stranger’s Eyes; Atlanta’s Children, chapbook; Uncensored Paper Mill; The Man on the Moon; In the First Place: The Maine Poems, chapbook (2005); NOW (2007).

Rodney Farmer - Universe Essence, chapbook (1986); Red Ships, (2002).

Annie Farnsworth - Bodies of Water, Bodies of Light (2003) chapbook.

Hortense Flexner - Clouds and Cobblestones,(1920); The Stubborn Root and Other Poems (1930); North Window and Other Poems (1943; Poems (1961); Selected Poems (1963); Presentation Critique d'Hortense Flexner Suivie d'un Choix de Poems (1969), edited by Marguerite Yourcenar, (English and French); The Selected Poems of Hortense Flexner (1975); Half a Star: Poems by Hortense Flexner (unknown date); Poems for Sutton Island, (1983), High Loft Press, Seal Harbor, Maine.

Richard Foerster - Sudden Harbor (1992); Patterns of Descent (1993); Trillium (1998); and Double Going (2002); The Burning of Troy (2006).

Marsden Hartley - Twenty-Five Poems (1923), Paris; Androscoggin (1940); Sea Burial (1941); Selected Poems (1945); Eight Poems and One Essay (1976); Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy (1982).

Nancy Henry - Anything Can Happen; Brie Fly; Hard, Erosion (Moon Pie Press, 2004), chapbooks.

Elizabeth Hobbs - Poems from the Lake; A Craving for the Goatman, both published by Goose River Press.

Constance Hunting - After the Stravinsky Concert and Other Poems (1969); Cimmerian and Other Poems (1972); Beyond the Summerhouse: A Narrative Poem (1976); Nightwalk and Other Poems (1980); Dream Cities (1982); Collected Poems, 1969-1982 (1983); A Day at the Shore: A Poem (1983); Between the Worlds: Poems 1983-1988 (1989); Hawkedon (1990), The Myth of Horizon (1991); At Rochebonne: A Poem (1994); The Shape of Memory (1998), and Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969-1998 (1999); An Amazement, 2002.

Paul Janeczko - Loads of Codes and Secret Ciphers (1981/1984); Brickyard Summer (1989; poetry; won the first Maine State Library Assoc. Lupine Award); and Stardust Hotel (1993; sometimes listed as Stardust Otel); That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems (1998).

Lillian Baker Kennedy - Tomorrow After Night, (2003); Editor, A Sense of Place; Notions (Pudding House Publications, 2003).

Stuart Kestenbaum - Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press, 1990); House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions, 2003).

Ann Kucera - Poems by Ann MacKinnon Kucera, Holts Mills Press (1995); The High Intemperance, Holts Mills Press, (2000); in anthology, Heart of Maine Writers vol 1 1999.

Dorianne Laux - Awake (1990); What We Carry (1994); Smoke (2000);.Facts about the Moon (2005, Norton); with Kim Addonizio, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasure of Writing Poetry (1997); with Addonizio, Laurie Duesing, poetry, Three West Coast Women (1983).

Gary Lawless -Songs of the Dream Caribou (date unknown; Black Bear Press);
Full Flower Moon, chapbook (1975); Wintering (1975; 17 pp; publ. Salt-Works Press, Mass.); Two Owls (1976; chapbook, White Pine Press, Buffalo NY); Gulf of Maine: A Blackberry Reader (1977; edited by Lawless): Anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction dealing with Gulf of Maine, with writing by Ted Enslin, Lawless, Gordon Bok, Marshall Dodge, Sandy Ives; Dark Moon/White Pine (1978; Great Raven Press): many poems by Lawless, one poem by S. Fox; forward by Enslin; Salted in the Shell 23 (1978; edited by Lawless): poems by Tim McNulty, Steve Sanfield, Peter Blue Cloud, Arthur Sze, Nanao Sakaki, John Brandi, Janine Pommy Vega, Bobby Byrd, etc.; Wolf Driving Sled: Selected Poems, 1970-1980 (1981); Ice Tatoo (1982, with Stephen Petrof); Yellow Dog (1986; 12 pp.); First Sight of Land (1990); Sitka Spring (1991; artwork by Li Ching); The Indian Shell Heap: Archaeology of the Ruth Moore Site (1994; with Steven Cox); Poems for the Wild Earth (1994; ed. Lawless): Anthology of eco-poetry; includes poets Arther Sze, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Nanao Sakaki, Sharon Doubiago;
Somewhere Within the Shell Mound (1995; graphics by Joe Napora; Bullhead - Ashland, KY); Caribouddhism: Sutras and the Holy Lands (1998): poems and interview.

Kristen Lindquist - Invocation to the Birds (2002) chapbook.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Voices of the Night (1839); Ballads and Other Poems (1842); Evangeline (1847); The Song of Hiawatha (1855); The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858); Paul Revere's Ride (1860); The Children's Hour (1860); The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems; The Seaside and the Fireside Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863/1872/1873).

Steve Luttrell - Home Movies (2004); Conditions (1994).

Tom Lyford - Pleasant Street (2005) chapbook; Poetic License (2005) chapbook; On Becoming a Man Of Substance (2006); Americana (2006).

Anne Johnson Mullin - Surface Tension (Finishing Line Press, Starting Gate Award 2006)

Wesley McNair - Fire, (2002, David R. Godine); The Faces of Americans in 1853 (1983; resissued 2001); The Town of No (1989/1997); Twelve Journeys in Maine (1992), My Brother Running (1993/1997); The Dissonant Heart (1995); Talking in the Dark (1998); Fire (2002); essays, Mapping the Heart: Reflections on Place and Poetry (June 2002); edited The Quotable Moose: A Contemporary Maine Reader (1994); The Maine Poets (Edited by McNair, 2004, DownEast Books).

Robin Merrill - Staring at the Wall, (Lockout, 2001); Dead Reckoning, (BoneWorld, 2002), chapbooks.

Edna St. Vincent Millay - A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems & Sonnets (1922); The Harp Weaver and Other Poems (1923); King's Henchmen (1927); The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems (1928); Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poems: Selected For Young People (1929); Fatal Interview: Sonnets (1931); Wine From These Grapes (1934); Sung Under the Silver Umbrella: Poems for Young People (1935, with children's poets such as Elizabeth Coatsworth and Rachel Field); Conversation at Midnight (1937); Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939); There are No Islands, Any More (1940); Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1941); The Murder of Lidice (1942); Poems and Prayer for an Invading Army (1944); Mine the Harvest (1954); Collected Poems (1956); Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1959); Take Up the Song (1986); Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (1991; centenary edition, ed. Colin Falck).

John Neal - Battle of the Niagara, a Poem, without Notes; Goldau, or, the Maniac Harper, under pen name Jehu O’Cataract.

Ken Nye - Searching for the Spring (TJMF, 2005).

April Ossmann - Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2008)

Mary Palmer - The Complete Mother Moose; Poems Downeast

Susann Pelletier - Immigrant Dreams and Other Poems

Alice Persons - Be Careful What You Wish For, (Moon Pie Press 2003); Never Say Never (Moon Pie Press 2004); Don't Be A Stranger (Sheltering Pines Press 2007.); Agreeable Friends, editor, anthology (Moon Pie Press 2008).

Terry Plunkett - Touching Ground (Quarry Press 1984).

Bern Porter - The only real avant-garde poet of Maine - Waste-Maker, 1926-1961 (1972); The Manhattan Telephone Book 1972 (1975); Run-On (1975); Selected Sounds (1975); Gee-Whizzels (1976); The Book of Do's (1982); Here Comes Everybody's Don't Book (1984); The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou (1985); Horizontal Hold (1985; with "Todd Transformer"); My My Dear Me (1985); Sweet End (1989); Less Than Overweight (1992; found poems)

Dawn Potter - Boyland and Other Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2004); Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009); How the Crimes Happened (CavanKerry Press, 2010).

A. Poulin, Jr. - In Advent; The Widow’s Taboo: Poems after the Catawba; A Momentary Order; Cave Dwellers; translated Anne Hebert, Selected Poems, Day Has No Equal but Night; translated Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke; edited anthology, Contemporary American Poetry; edited A Ballet for the Ear: Interviews, Essays and Reviews by John Logan; co-edited The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival with David DeTurk. Was founding editor of publisher, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Patricia Ranzoni - Claiming (Puckerbrush Press, 1995); Settling, (Puckerbrush Press, 2000).

Edward Rielly -
A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems About Haying and Other Matters (Pudding House, 2003): Abandoned Farmhouse and Other Haiku (Press Here, 2000); How Sky Holds the Sun (AHA [online], 1998); Anniversary Haiku (Brooks Books, 1997); My Struggling Soil (Plowman Press, 1994); The Breaking of Glass Horses and Other Poems (Great Elm, l988); The Furrow's Edge (Juniper, l987); Family Portrait (Advance, l987); Rain Falling Quietly (Wind Chimes, 1985) - chapbooks.

Edwin Arlington Robinson - Children of the Night; The Torrent and the Night Before (1896); Captain Craig and other poems (1902); The Town Down the River (1910); The Man Against the Sky (1916); Merlin (1917); The Three Taverns (1920); Lancelot (1920); Avon's Harvest (1921); Collected Poems (1921/1924/1927/1929; won Pulitzer Prize); Roman Bartholow (1923); The Man Who Died Twice (1924; won Pulitzer Prize 1925); Dionysus in Doubt (1925); Tristram (1927; won Pulitzer Prize); Sonnets, 1889-1927 (1928); Cavender's House (1929); Modred, A Fragment (1929); The Glory of the Nightingales (1930); Selected Poems (1930; edited by Bliss Perry); Matthias at the Door (1931). The Poetry of E. A. Robinson (1999; Modern Library edition, ed. Robert Mezey)

Kenneth Rosen - Whole Horse (1972); Black Leaves (1980); The Hebrew Lion, Longfellow Square (1991); Reptile Mind (1993); No Snake, No Paradise (1996).

Ira Sadoff - A Northern Calendar (1982); Emotional Traffic: Poems (1989/90); An Ira Sadoff Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose (1992); Grazing: Poems (1998).

Colin Sargent - Luftwaffe Snowshoes, (Portsmouth [Virginia] Arts Center, 1984); Blush, (Coyote Love Press, 1987); Undertow, (Coyote Love Press, 1995).

May Sarton - Encounter in April; Inner Landscape; The Lion & the Rose; The Land of Silence; In Time Like Air; Cloud Stone Sun Vine; A Private Mythology (?/1996); As Does New Hampshire (1967); A Grain of Mustard Seed (1971/1987); A Durable Fire (1972); Collected Poems 1930-1973 (1974); Selected Poems of May Sarton (1978); Halfway to Silence (1980); Letters from Maine: Poems (1984/1997); The Silence Now (1988/1990; earlier uncollected poems, new poems); Collected Poems 1930-1993 (1993); Coming into Eighty: New Poems (1994/1997).

Lee Sharkey - it was hard to close your eyes on the moonbath (South Solon Press, 1974); 8 LINE POEMS (South Solon Press, 1975); Pig and other Portions (South Solon Press, 1976); Farmwife (1977, Puckerbrush Press); Box of Roses (1980, Puckerbrush Press); Daughters without Mothers (1981, Tilbury House Publishers); First Moments (1987, Puckerbrush Press); Long Night Ahead: Poems and Art from the Line Club, Editor (1992, Borealis Press); To a Vanished World (1995, Puckerbrush Press); A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid Press, 2008). .

Betsy Sholl - Changing Faces (1974); Appalachian Winter (1978); Rooms Overhead (1986); The Red Line (1992); Pick a Card, chapbook (1991); Don't Explain (1997); winner of the University of Wisconsin’s 1997 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry; Coastal Bop (2001), one of 21 chapbooks published in the series ' Walking to Windward '.

Wilbert Snow - Maine Coast (1923); Inner Harbor: More Maine Coast poems (1926); Down East (1932); Selected Poems (1936); Before the Wind (1938); Maine Tides (1940); Sonnets to Steve, and Other Poems (1957); Spruce Head: Selections from the Poetry of Wilbert Snow (1958/59); The Collected Poems of Wilbert Snow (1963, 1973, 2nd ed.)

Bruce Spang - The Knot, (2005); To the Promised Land Grocery (2008).

Martin Steingesser - Brothers of Morning (2002)

C. J. Stephens - Beginnings and Other Poems (1989); Circling at the Chain's Length: Poems (1991); The Folks from Greeley's Mill and Other Maine Stories (1992); Hang-Ups: Poems (1993); Selected Poems (1995); Confessions: New and Selected Stories (1998); Poems from Holland and Belgium (1999; collected and translated by Stevens); Shepherd Without Sheep (2001).

John Tagliabue - Poems (1959); A Japanese Journal: Poems (1966, 1969); The Buddha Uproar: Poems (1967, 1970); The Doorless Door (Japan Poems) (1970); The Great Day: Poems, 1962-1983 (1984); New and Selected Poems: 1942-1997 (1997).

Henry Taylor -
The Flying Change (1986). Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 (1997); The Horse Show at Midnight (1966); An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards (1975); Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews (1999/2000.

Jeri Theriault - Corn Dance (1994); East of Monhegan (1999) - chapbooks.

Elizabeth Tibbetts - Perfect Selves (2001, Oyster River Press in the Walking to Windward series);  In the Well, won the 2002 Bluestem Poetry Award, will be published 2003 by Bluestem Press.

Lewis Turco - Day after History: A Selection of Poems (1956); First Poems (1960); Sketches; Livevil: A Mask (1962); Awaken, Bells, Falling: Poems 1959-1967 (1968); The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (1968/1986/2000); The Inhabitant (1970); The Literature of New York: A selective bibliography of colonial and native New York State authors (1970); Creative Writing in Poetry (1970); Pocoangelini: A Fantography and Other Poems (1971); The Weed Garden: Poems (1973); Poetry: An Introduction Through Writing (1973); Freshman Composition and Literature (1974); A Cage of Creatures: Poems (1978); Seasons of the Blood: Poems (1980); American Still Lifes: Poems (1981); The Compleat Melancholick: Being a Sequence of 'Found, Composite, and Composed' Poems, based largely upon Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1985); Visions And Revisions Of American Poetry (1986); A Maze of Monsters (1986; illus. Louise Dickinson); The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (1986); The Fog: Chamber Opera in One Act (1987; with composer Walter Hekster); The Shifting Web: New & Selected Poems (1989); Dialogue: A Socratic Dialogue on the Art of Writing Dialogue in Fiction (1989/1999); A Family Album: Poems (1990); The Public Poet: Five Lectures on the Art and Craft of Poetry (1991; Writers-In-Residence Series) Murmurs in the Walls (1992); Legends of the Mists (1993); Emily Dickinson, Woman of Letters: Poems and Centos from Lines in Emily Dickinson's Letters (1993); How to Write a Million (1995); Bordello: PoemPrints (1996, with printmaker George O'Connell); Shaking the Family Tree: A Remembrance (1998; book of family memoirs tracing Turco's life as the son of a Methodist missionary who worked among Italian immigrants between the two World Wars); A Book of Fears (1998; translated into Italian by Joseph Alessia); The Life and Poetry of Manoah Bodman, Bard of the Berkshires (1999; edited and with introduction by Turco); The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism and Scholarship (1999); The Green Maces of Autumn: Voices in an Old Maine House (2002).

David Walker - Moving Out (1976); Two Poets: David Walker, Jeffrey Holman (1975); Voiceprints: David Walker (1989).

E. B. White - Poems and Sketches of E. B. White.

Robley Wilson, Jr. - Kingdoms of the Ordinary.

Baron Wormser - Maine Poet Laureate - The White Words (1983); Good Trembling (1985); Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (1989); When (1997); Teaching the Art of Poetry: The Moves (1999); Mulroney and Others: Poems (2000).

Anthologies Recommended

A Sense of Place - Editors: Lillian Kennedy, Alice Persons, Nancy Henry
Maine Speaks - Editorial Board of MWPA and MELA
An Anthology of Maine Literature - Editors: Rovert Lecker, Kathleen Brown
Maine Lines - Edited by Richard Aldridge
White Pine and Blue Water - Editor, Henry Beston
The Maine Reader - Editor, Charles & Samuella Shain

The following Maine poets are in the research process.

Kathleen Lignell Ellis
Henry Braun
Stephen Petroff
Kendall Merriam
Mitchell Goodman
Emily Wilson
Dianne Benedict
Brenda Edmands
Arden Hendrie
Kevin Kelly
Connie Voisine
Candice Stover


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