Category Archives: Poetry

Save the Date – National Poetry Month Celebration:

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Graves Library

Join us for the National Poetry Month Celebration at Louis T. Graves Memorial Public Library. Read. Share. Listen.  will be on Sunday, April 27 at 2pm. The former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins once wrote: “All babies are born with a … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Graves Library

Happy Birthday to author and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born in Portland, Maine on February 27, 1807.  Enjoy his poem, ‘ A Summer Day By The Sea’ and dream of warmer days to come! A Summer Day By The Sea … Continue reading →

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The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes:

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Graves Library

The flame-red moon, the harvest moon, Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing, A vast balloon, Till it takes off, and sinks upward To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon. The harvest moon has come, Booming … Continue reading →

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New in Non-Fiction:

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Graves Library

Take Heart: Poems from Maine, selected by Poet Laureate Wesley McNair.  Down East Books, 2013. Each week for the last several years, Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair offered a previously published poem by a Maine poet in his weekly newspaper … Continue reading →

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At the Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Graves Library

At the Seaside poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book Two, Ginn and Co., 1916.

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Come Help Us Celebrate 100 Years!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Graves Library

Come help us celebrate our 100th year! Annual Poetry Reading and 100th Library Birthday Celebration : Read, Share, Listen. Sunday, April 14 at 2:00 p.m. The former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins once wrote: “All babies are born with a knowledge … Continue reading →

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Save the Date!

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Graves Library

Come help us celebrate our 100th year! Annual Poetry and 100th Library Birthday Celebration : Read, Share, Listen will take place on Sunday, April 14 at 2:00 p.m. The former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins once wrote: “All babies are born with a … Continue reading →

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New On Our Shelves: Poetry ~

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Graves Library

In  A Thousand Mornings,  Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentines Day ~

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Graves Library

Sonnet 44 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers Plucked in the garden, all the summer through, And winter, and it seemed as if they grew In this close room, nor missed the … Continue reading →

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On Our Shelves ~

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Graves Library

For several years in the late 1980’s, poet Ted Kooser, had been sending women original poems printed on postcards that promptly arrived every February 14th.  By 2007, Kooser’s mailing list grew to twenty six hundred women. In the introduction to … Continue reading →

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