Today’s poem is "Sherene" by Gretchen Berg. Gretchen is a performance artist/educator and writer. She is the lead teaching artist for Portland’s Side X Side, works in rural Maine schools through the Local Stories Project, and teaches performance courses at Bates College.

Today's poem is "This Has Been a Test of the Emergency Broadcast System" by Jeffrey Thomson. He is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, and the author of multiple books including: Half/Life: New and Selected Poems from Alice James Books (October 2019). He is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington.

Today’s poem is “Mother” by Sally Bliumis Dunn. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day, and The Writer's Almanac. She’s the author of three collections of poems, most recently Echolocation (Plume Editions, MadHat Press).

Today’s poem is “Shuttering My Boy” by Annaliese Jakimides. Her poems and essays have been published in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including 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 “Amos in the Snow” by Pam Burr Smith, who lives in Brunswick and works as a mental health therapist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Heaven Jumping Woman (Moon Pie Press, 2011) and Near Stars (Blackberry Books 2019). Her poems are in the anthologies Take Heart and Port City Poems .

Today’s poem is "The Tooth Fairy" by Dorianne Laux, who was born in Augusta, Maine. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry . Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty member of Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program. Her most recent book, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected , was published in 2019.

Today’s poem is “Love is Not All” (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was born in Rockland, Maine in 1892. She was one of the most popular writers of her time and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

Today’s poem is “Something Bigger Out There” by Jen Ryan Onken, who has been teaching high school English for more than half her life. She has taught overseas in Beirut, Alexandria, and Lesotho in Southern Africa-- but she now lives and teaches near Berwick, ME. Her poems have been featured in Love's Executive Order and the women poets’ anthology, Lunation , published by Senile Monk Press.

Today’s poem is “Turning the Corner I Saw You” by Mark Melnicove. Mark is the author of two ekphrastic poetry collections— Sometimes Times, with printmaker Terry Winters, and GHOSTS , with painter Abby Shahn. He teaches English and creative writing at Falmouth High School.

Today’s poem is “Snow-flakes” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was born in Portland in 1807 and during his life was one of the best-known poets in United States, author of poems such as “Evangeline”, “Hiawatha”, and “Paul Revere’s Ride.”