
| 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 Gunners 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); 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) 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 Strangers Eyes; Atlantas 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); 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 OCataract. 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 Widows 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). 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 Wisconsins 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). 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. 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 The following Maine poets are in the research process. Kathleen Lignell Ellis |
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