Poetry. Photography.
Jeanne Julian
Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
- The Maine Poets Society has released Timberline and Shoreline: Celebrating the enduring legacy of poetry in Maine. This anthology of poetry by current members honors the society's 90th anniversary. Poets Jenny Doughty, Bill Frayer, Gus Peterson, Debbie Smith, Ellen White, and I served as editors. Over 55 poets are represented—myself included!—with one or two poems each.
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A video of my poem "The Color of It" that's in included in the anthology From Pandemic to Protest, released fall 2021 from The Poetry Box.
- Synkroniciti is here, and I'm please this issue includes my poem "For a Glimpse (without paying)." Always a pleasure to see what images editor Katherine McDaniel pairs with the writing she curates. The theme is "expectations."
- Pinhole Poetry chose a delightful image to accompany my poem "The Drive to Work" in their social media posts. The editors also ask contributors some interesting questions about writing process.
- Wordpeace, a multi-genre online journal dedicated to peace and social justice, shares my poem "Almost Warm" in the winter/spring 2026 issue.
...somewhere
someone
knows how
to slide a sword
safely
down
the
throat
—from "For A Glimpse (without paying),"
Synkroniciti, spring 2026
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Sunrise, Acadia National Park, Maine
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Woodland path, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Quotations for writers
“Our focus [as American writers] on exercises, on forming good writing habits by trying to write every day, and our insistence on reading, seemed a little lacking in mystery, if not downright square, in comparison to what Naseer Hassan and Hamed al-Maliki were proposing as primary qualities for being a writer: the Rilkean attributes of vision, inspiration, and the ability to express profound feeling.”—Tom Sleigh, “Six Trees and Two White Dogs…Doves?,” Poetry, March 2015
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