Midcoast Poetry Journal

     At the end of 2024, the Midcoast Poetry Calendar board of directors started a Midcoast Poetry Journal project to create and maintain a printed and ebook poetry journal for poets and poetry in Midcoast Maine. In March the board also created Midcoast Poetry Journal Publishing to publish the inaugural and future Midcoast Poetry Journal volumes.

     The people sponsoring the Midcoast Poetry Calendar created a Maine Public Benefit Corporation with the same name. The Midcoast Poetry Calendar and its Midcoast Poetry Journal project are sponsored and staffed by the organization’s founders and other volunteers from Rockport Public Library Poets’ Corner and Thomaston Public Library Poets’ Corner and by the time and support of other Midcoast Maine poets.

     Midcoast Poetry Calendar (and its second I.R.S. dba Midcoast Poetry Journal Publishing) is a non‑profit, 501(c)(3) public charity organization staffed by volunteer poets. No fees were associated with publishing poets’ works in the first Volume 1 April edition or its updated Volume 1 June edition. For the second 2025 volume, the board of directors voted to request a suggested “poet’s donation” of $10 per 3 poems submitted for reading to help defray paperback publishing costs. That donation is voluntary and not required. All poems and poets are treated equally.

Each poet published in a Midcoast Poetry Journal volume receives one copy of that journal volume. Additional copies are available for fans, friends, family, and poetry lovers to purchase for $10 at our poetry reading events.

We also donate copies of the Midcoast Poetry Journal to libraries in Midcoast Maine.

Midcoast Poets!

Thank you for Submissions

     Midcoast Poetry Journal Publishing has now received submissions for Midcoast Poetry Journal 2025 Volume 2 November from more than 40 poets. Thank you.

If you are interested in becoming part of the publishing team please email or call us. We are poets publishing poets!

Midcoast Poetry Journal 2025 Volume 1 June updated Is Now Available

Midcoast Poetry Journal
 Volume 1 June 2025  updated

     Midcoast Poetry Journal   Volume 1 June 2025  updated with poems from 28 Midcoast Maine poets is now available for purchase for $10 as a paperback or a Kindle ebook at Amazon.

     The Midcoast Poetry Journal is also available locally (only $10) in Rockport at Barnswallow Books, in Rockland at Hello Hello Books and Jensen’s Pharmacy, in Port Clyde at the Herring Gut Coastal Science Center and in Thomaston at Weskeag Farms.

     Please also see our current list of Midcoast Poetry Journal readings.

The Midcoast Poetry Journal project was started to help meet our goal to “connect Midcoast Maine poets.”

     Book Binding Workshop   We offer book binding workshops for any and all ages. Simple DIY process that creates “perfect bound” handmade books reminiscent of binding techniques that go back to the beginnings of bookbinding. Available to visit classrooms. To schedule a demonstration, email info@MidcoastPoetryCalendar.com. Thanks.

     We also have experience publishing electronic poetry books as PDFs and as paperback and electronic books using Kindle Direct Publishing tools. We plan to make our PDF editions of the Midcoast Poetry Journal available here for donations to our supporting public libraries. You can see examples of PDF chapbooks on Rockport Public Library Poets’ Corner chapbooks page and PDF poetry books on Bill Eberle’s poetry books page.

     We also offer seminars on bookbinding and publishing upon request.