The thirtieth edition of Island Journal features writing from Island Institute staff members, art historian Carl Little, poets Sophie Cabot Black and Tony Hoagland, and Finnish novelist, painter, and illustrator Tove Jansson, among others. The central folio celebrates Monhegan’s 400th anniversary with a diverse collection of paintings by island artists.
Contents
- What Scotland’s Islands Taught Me by Yvonne Thomas
- The Island Mechanic by Anna Maine
- The Art of Perpetual Motion by Jason Mann
- Man Overboard by Sophie Cabot Black
- Your First Atlas by David Conover
- A North Haven Gift—June Hopkins by Tom Groening
- The Island Dump: An Elegy by Phil Crossman
- The Neighbor by Tove Jansson
- “A Fortunate Island” by Carl Little
- Folio: The Unending Muse—Monhegan
- Alaska’s Silvery Gold Rush by Rob Snyder
- Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
- The Winter Game by Tom Groening
- The Year Steel and Cable Changed Deer Isle by Harry Gratwick
- Unfinished Island by Christina Marsden Gillis
- The Passamaquoddy Alternative by Paul Molyneaux
- Youth as Conservation Catalysts by Catherine Schmitt
- Islesboro School’s Island Magnetism by Abigail Curtis
- A Rock Revived: Newfoundland’s Fogo Island by Nancy Griffin
- Burial at Sea by Benjamin Stevens
