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.
...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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- I'm honored that my poem “We Won’t Be: An Abecdedarian” was selected as one of the 10 finalists for this year’s Maine Postmark contest, part of the Belfast Poetry Festival.
- Recent publications: "Near Deaths (and aftermaths) in Quartet Journal; "The Astronaut’s Mysterious Renunciation of the Rock-solid" and "Postscript to an Unsent Letter" in Bloodroot Poetry Journal; "From Here to There" in Silkworm 19; "Garden Remembered" in Kakalak 2026; and "Pencil and Ladder" in Penstricken's themed issue on "descent."
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Woodland path, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Quotations for writers
“Place yourself outside of human time when you write. Love both language and silence in equal parts,the way they sound and how they go dark. Keep staring at your poems as you revise. Read them aloud over and over. Visit them. Do hospital rounds on them, day after day. Slowly detach yourself. Figure oit not what they are trying to say but what they're trying to understand. That takes a while, and at times you can't know completely. (Maybe those are the real poems, the ones with a secret life and hunger apart from you.)”
—Marianne Boruch in Poets&Writers, Sept/Oct 2026
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