Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Thomas Moore and is from his book “Saving Nails” (Moon Pie Press 2016). He’s the current poet laureate of Belfast, Maine.   Smith Cove: Light to Dark By Thomas Moore    At sunrise the sky is not a saucepan Or the roof of a Dodge or […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Alice Persons of Westbrook who runs Moon Pie Press.   Casco Bay, July By Alice Persons   There are many watershed moments, Not Hallmark, not Kodak I will remember about knowing you, And wish I could purge from memory. But the evening we paddled Out from Mackworth Island […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Marita O’Neill of Portland. O’Neill teaches English at Yarmouth High School.   In the Wild Seas By Marita O’Neill   From the El Faro cargo ship, A last message at midnight—husband to wife, Bad weather ahead.   That Sunday just before dawn It woke us, a half-dream […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Mello of Brewer. His most recent book is “All Four Seasons,” published by Moon Pie Press.   The Osprey (Whiting Bay) By Jim Mello   The Osprey Rises On the currents of air To hover Wings triangled To soar Spiral On the wind Against the […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ted Bookey of Hallowell and is from his new book “Stitiously Speaking” published by Moon Pie Press.   On The Way to Wonderful By Ted Bookey   — For Bill Withers    “Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Richard Foerster of Cape Neddick, from his book “Double Going” (BOA Editions, 2002). His most recent book is “River Road,” published by Texas Review Press.   Sea Ducks in Winter By Richard Foerster   Was it shelter they found There, this solstice dusk: The narrow bay, […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jim Thatcher of Yarmouth. His most recent book is “Lesser Eternities” published by Deerbrook Editions.   Ice Night By Jim Thatcher   On the first full night of astronomical Spring Winter slept its deepest sleep, Pregnant, heavy, glittering in its stillness Under the great green vault […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by former Portland Poet Laureate Bruce Spang. His most recent book is “Boy at the Screen Door.” Found By Bruce Spang   I walked up a mountain trail in April. Along the way, strewn here and there, Broken branches, some stabbing the cool wet earth, Some cracked, […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Marcia Brown of Cape Elizabeth. Her most recent book is “When We Invented Water,” published by Moon Pie Press.   Traffic Dance By Marcia Brown   At that intersection where eighteen lanes of traffic slow, stop And flow again over the bridge and into the city, […]