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Books from Maine poets, everywhere you look | freshmoonpieI ;m also pleased to see that Maine poet laureate Wes McNair ;s anthology TAKE HEART , from his series of Maine poems in newspapers statewide, is #8 on the top 10 hardcover books list. / The scraps of the year make some kind of pattern, / some calligramme of their own, / beyond the imprint of new snow. Posted by Administrator • March 10, 2013 •. The recipient of two Rockefeller. I wonder what he sees, how he / thinks, what does he want to hear from me? / Four days, just four, too young / to focus or concentrate, yet somewhere / in sleep where he should be. to cloud over: cobwebs, dust. Guillard / Night, early April / White rivers of rain, snowmelt / Roar over the rocks / Scouring the steep slopes / Tripping over grey boulders / Hillsides echoing / Every spring I wait / For this sweet sound of release . Wesley McNair: Speaking 2011 National Book Festival . Public Domain. TAKE HEART : A Conversation in Poetry | Daily Bulldog TAKE HEART : A Conversation in Poetry . / In the distance, / a volcano. TAKE HEART : A Conversation in Poetry | Daily Bulldogby Elizabeth Coatsworth / Two yellow dandelion shields do not make spring, / nor do the wild duck swimming by the shore, / so self-possessed, so white of side and breast, / nor, I suppose, the change in the land-birds ; calls, . This is Wesley McNair ’s sixth anthology of Maine writing. Take Heart : Poems from Maine , an anthology collecting the first two years of this column, is now available from Down East Books .GotPoetry.com > > Take Heart ; poets at Left Bank Books Poetry News: The downtown Left Bank Books will host a poetry reading with several local poets whose works appear in the new anthology Take Heart : Poems from Maine edited by Wesley McNair, Saturday, June 1, from 3 to . How could a prisoner who suddenly achieved the freedom he long desired become so . TAKE HEART : A Conversation in Poetry | Daily Bulldogby Bruce Guernsey / On Sundays / carting my trash to the dump / I ;d see them swarming / the piles like gnats, / a whole family of pickers / straight from Mass: / Dad ;s suit, white / as the noon sky, Junior / in a polka-dot tie – . Poet Laureate, at mainepoetlaureate@gmail.com or 207-228-8263. Listen to Lewis Turco read his poem "The Habitation" --