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.

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

Williams offers a mix of call to action, manifesto and a questioning of the status quo…

The author documents two kinds of journeys—one a road trip she and her husband Travis embarked on, the other, the psychological one the couple delved into to confront and untangle the pernicious effects of childhood sexual abuse.

In the mid-1980s, Island Institute co-founder Philip Conkling traveled to Castine to interview Philip Booth for an upcoming issue of the Institute's Island Journal. Booth, Conkling later told literary biographer Jeanne Braham, “said something that spoke directly to my heart: 'The amazing thing about poems, like the amazing thing about islands: to those people to whom they matter, they matter a very great deal.'”

More than just information about the natural world around us, these essays seem to be about being present.

A lot of mansions and large hotels featured in the cards either were torn down or were burned to the ground in the 1947 fire.