Poems from Here 2025-26
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Poems from Here, a weekly poetry program on Maine Public Radio with help from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, continues for another year! This program was first created in 2017 by former Maine State Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and ran through 2021. The 2022 reboot brought five new hosts, Maine State Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma and fellow poets Samaa Abdurraqib, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Mihku Paul, and Arisa White.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
+ Poems from Here is open to all poets who live in Maine or who have spent significant time in Maine. If you have had a poem featured in the last two years, please refrain from submitting.
+ Please submit 3-5 poems as a single word or PDF document. Poems can be previously published as long as the appropriate permissions/credit information is included. Poems can be submitted simultaneously as long as we are notified through Submittable if a poem is no longer available for consideration.
+ Submissions will only be accepted online via Submittable between May 22 and June 31.
+ Please Note: We will send a response either way, but please expect the response time to be long. We expect to receive several hundred poems and can only choose 52 for a year and have 5 different poets choosing work. Please also do not pay much attention to the "status" listed in Submittable. Because of how we process and read these submissions, that status is not always accurate nor does it reflect if a submission has been read or is in the process of being read.