These poems by Mainers appeared in “Notes from an Open Book,” a monthly e-newsletter of the Maine Humanities Council. SMELT SHACKS By Joseph Coleman The frost-heaved road lined with cord on cord of ...

Of all genres of writing, poetry has to be the most subjective, the most deeply personal. Certainly many memoirs reveal heartfelt confessions, but that's for the writer; it's rarely as personal for ...

TIME was when a poet with so clearly American a quality as Robert Frost would have been hailed as a Yankee Vergil, Theocritus, Burns, or what you will. Now it may be said that an American is striking ...

Published just months before the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the poem notes the rise of modern war.

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...