Today’s poem is “My Ocean as the Blind Man Sees It” by Annaliese Jakimides. Her poems and essays have been published in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including the Beloit Poetry Journal , Utne Reader , and This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women . After 27 years on a dirt road in Mount Chase, population 193, she now lives in downtown Bangor.

Today’s poem is “Some Words on Birds and Borders” by Dennis Camire. Dennis teaches writing at Central Maine Community College and at the University of Maine at Augusta. He also edits the poetry series for The Mainer . Born and raised in Biddeford, he currently lives in an A-frame in West Paris Maine.

Today’s poem is “Moving Among the Creatures” by Daniel Hoffman, who was the author of over twenty books, including poetry, criticism, and a memoir. He spent many summers in Brooksville, Maine and was appointed US poet laureate in 1973.

Today’s poem is “Bells, Bells” by Linda Aldrich. She has published two collections of poetry, Foothold (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and March and Mad Women (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012). Linda lives in Portland and teaches English at Southern Maine Community College. She is currently serving as Portland’s poet laureate.

Today’s poem is "Trying To Tell Us" by Deborah Cummins. She’s the author of two poetry collections and a collection of essays that was a finalist for the 2013 Maine Book Award in Non-Fiction. Her poems and essays have been featured in nine anthologies and numerous journals and magazines.

Today’s poem is “Thirst” by Mary Tracy. She helped found Friends School of Portland and served as its Director of Studies and middle school language arts teacher. Her greatest pleasure was helping students discover that they could write well and powerfully. Her work has been published in Balancing Act 2 , by Littoral Books.

Today’s poem is “Pruning Time” by Richard Taylor. Richard grew up in rural New Hampshire and was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team. He taught German, Latin, and English at Gould Academy for 20 years, and his first book, The Absence of Strangers, was published by Goose River Press in 2017.

Today’s poem is "In February: After a complaint to my acupuncturist before getting on her table." by Jennifer Lunden. Her poems have been published in Sweet , Peacock Journal , Poetry Canada Review , and The Café Review , and she was the recipient of the 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission.

Today’s poem is “Traces” by Margaret Yocom. She lives in Farmington and Rangeley and is the author of ALL KINDS OF FUR : Erasure Poems & New Translation of a Tale from the Brothers Grimm (Deerbrook Editions, 2018); A folklorist, she founded the Folklore Studies Program at George Mason University where she taught for 36 years.

Today’s poem is The Lost by Richard Foerster. He’s the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems , which spans 40 years of his work. Richard has worked as a lexicographer, educational writer, typesetter, teacher, and editor of the literary magazines Chelsea and Chautauqua Literary Journal . Since 1986, he has lived on the coast in southern Maine.