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 Journal Publishing (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 donation of $10 per 3 poems to help defray paperback publishing costs.

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.

 

Call for Submissions

Midcoast Poets!

 

     Midcoast Poetry Journal Publishing is now accepting submissions for Midcoast Poetry Journal 2025 Volume 2 November.

Poets residing in Midcoast Maine may submit poems for consideration. Poems should be submitted with all poems in a single Word document and be accompanied by contact information and a brief poet's bio.

Previously published poems are acceptable and will be cited in the front matter if selected and published.

Call for 2025 Volume 2 Poetry Poster PDF     Call for 2025 Volume 2 Poetry Poster JPG

 

Please send submissions to info@MidcoastPoetryCalendar.com (subject line [Your Name] Submission MPJ). Thank you.

If you are interested in becoming part of the publishing team please indicate that with your submission.

 

The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 15, 2025.

 

Suggested Donation: $10 per 3 poems  Please make checks payable to:
Midcoast Poetry Calendar  15 North St. Thomaston Maine 04861
    helps defray printing costs

 

 

Midcoast Poetry Journal 2025 Volume 1 June updated Is Now Available

 

     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.

We also plan to make an ePub edition available, as well as a PDF version with instructions for printing a “reader’s copy” and binding it inexpensively at an office services store.

     The Midcoast Poetry Journal is also available locally (only $10) in Rockport at Barnswallow Books, in Camden at Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe, in Rockland at Hello Hello Books and Jensen’s Pharmacy, and in Port Clyde at the Herring Gut Coastal Science Center.

 

     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.