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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
The Maine State Library is partnering with the State's new Poet Laureate, Wesley McNair, and the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance in the initiative, Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry.
Each week McNair will offer one previously published poem by a Maine poet. McNair will select each poem and write a brief introduction about the poet's background and connection to Maine, and the history, context, or themes of the poem.
Recent Poems
- February 19, 2012 - The Glass Harmonica by Theodore Enslin
- February 12, 2012 - Feasting by Elizabeth Garber
- February 5, 2012 - Old by Philip Booth
- January 29, 2012 - Sudden Death and January by Linda Buckmaster
- January 22, 2012 - Where Inspiration Has Learned a Thing or Two by Mekeel McBride
- January 15, 2012 - Potatoes by Jay Davis
- January 8, 2012 - What Positions Do They and We Assume In the Encapsulated Stillness? by John Tagliabue
- January 1, 2012 - The Plymouth On Ice by Thomas R. Moore
- December 25, 2011 - Winter Friends by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
- December 18, 2011 - To Jesus on His Birthday by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- December 11, 2011 - Sentences and Where He Went by Edward Nobles
- December 4, 2011 - Coming Home by Elizabeth Tibbetts
- November 27, 2011 - The Hands by Bruce Guernsey
- November 20, 2011 - The Poet by Marta Rijn Finch
- November 13, 2011 - United States by Phillip Booth
- November 6, 2011 - For the Falling Man by Annie Farnsworth
- October 30, 2011 - Mom Gets In One of My Poems by Martin Steingesser
- October 23, 2011 - Reuben Bright by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- October 16, 2011 - The Last Lamp-Lighters by Kenneth Rosen
- October 9, 2011 - Washington County, Maine and By Passamaquoddy Bay by Tom Sexton
- October 2, 2011 - Moth at My Window by Richard Aldridge
- September 25, 2011 - The Geese by May Sarton
- September 18, 2011 - Peaches by Kate Barnes
- September 11, 2011 - Some Clear Night by Gary Lawless
- September 4, 2011 - Mr. Fix-It by Stuart Kestenbaum
- August 28, 2011 - Mantis by Robert Siegel
- August 21, 2011 - Feed My Birds by Elizabeth McFarland
- August 14, 2011 - Her Telling by Thomas R. Moore
- August 7, 2011 - Hummingbird by Ellen M. Taylor
- July 31, 2011 - Transportation by Kristen Lindquist
- July 24, 2011 - Closing Time by Dave Morrison
- July 17, 2011 - In Nightgowns by Sheila Jordan
- July 10, 2011 - Early Morning Trumpet by George V. Van Deventer
- July 3, 2011 - A Little Bit of Timely Advice by Mekeel McBride
- June 26, 2011 - Driving Down East by Robert M. Chute
- June 19, 2011 - The Crossing by David Walker
- June 12, 2011 - Inland by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- June 5, 2011 - Roses by Thomas Carper
- May 29, 2011 - Night Patrol by Bruce Guernsey
- May 22, 2011 - Free Agent by Marija Sanderling
- May 15, 2011 - April And Then May by Kate Barnes
- May 8, 2011 - Nature by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- May 1, 2011 - April Prayer by Stuart Kestenbaum
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The Remarks of Maine Poet Laureate, Wesley McNair from April 2011 as a newly appointed Poet Laureate.
Wesley McNair is the fourth Maine Poet Laureate. He is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two books of nonfiction, and he has edited five anthologies of Maine writing, including three that feature Maine poetry. Few authors are as well versed in the history of Maine poetry or the work of Maine's contemporary poets as Wesley McNair.
