Megan Grumbling’s Booker’s Point is a remarkable homage in verse to one Bernard A. Booker, 1922-2008, the “unofficial mayor of Ell Pond, Maine, and finder of gold in quartz.”

At Bunker Cove begins and ends with singing. The opening poem, “A World of Singers,” is an invitation to listen to a particular soundscape...

The pages of The Stone From Halfway Rock should practically reek of salt air and ocean spray, so vividly does author Peter Macdonald Blachly, a writer and musician who lives in Bath.

It generated such outrage that it was taken down from Facebook within hours...

“The last several surveys have been very disappointing, with below average recruitment.”

—Maggie Hunter of DMR

Some sources describe this walk as a dance, but I think it looks more like the bird is imitating a “low rider” car…

The players—3rd graders through 8th graders—were working the crowd.

The voice in these poems brings to mind poets Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler, masters at transforming daily goings-on into engaging verse.

In Washington County, where 90 percent of Maine's periwinkle harvest takes place, they're called “wrinklers.”