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Join Maine's Poet Laureate Linda Aldrich as she welcomes four current Maine poets: Stuart Kestenbaum (Maine State Poet Laureate), Betsy Sholl (former Maine State Poet Laureate), Gretchen Berg, and Colin Cheney who will read their own work and that of…

I was reacting to my wife's observations at Hannaford's, along with what we were reading/hearing in the news, locally and nationally.

Attached you'll find two photo images I took:  an item purchased during COVID-19.....  sporks!  and what was eaten with them:  pho.....  I make different ones all winter.  Yum......  or at least my friends tell me so.

My cat, Hannah, helps me cope with COVID-19 because she doesn’t think it is a big deal.
- Mari and Hannah.

What the pandemic experience has been teaching me.
This essay is more of an observation and less of a complaint about the human condition and how fragile and interdependent we humans ultimately are.

On January 29, 2020 I opened a new word doc and began writing. Two months later, in March, I began to self-isolate and to journal extensively about my experience. On January 29, 2021 I looked back at the first entry I'd written and marveled at how…

I was watching the inauguration on the computer and was so moved by the events that I pulled out my camera to capture the moment of Joe Biden being sworn in. Alas, I wasn't quick enough and instead captured the hug he gave Jill, after the moment,…