Midcoast Poetry Journal

 

     The Midcoast Poetry Journal project was started by the Midcoast Poetry Calendar board of directors at the end of 2024 to create and maintain a printed and online 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 and the Journal created a Maine Public Benefit Corporation with the same name. The Midcoast Poetry Calendar is 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 is a non‑profit, volunteer enterprise and no fees were associated with publishing poets’ works in this first edition.

Each poet published in the Midcoast Poetry Journal will receive 1 copy of the journal and additional copies will be made available for fans, friends, family, and poetry lovers to purchase for $10 at our poetry events.

 

 

 

     Status:  Midcoast Poetry Journal   Volume 1 April 2025 with poems from 25 Midcoast Maine poets is now available for purchase as a paperback or a Kindle ebook at Amazon.

Our first shipment of 42 Midcoast Poetry Journal Volume 1 paperbacks for poets and libraries have arrived and more are due the week of April 14. We will be selling the Journal at our poetry events and will try to always have some available. We also plan to sell the Midcoast Poetry Journal in local bookstores and other outlets.

We’ve scheduled three events at libraries during Poetry Month where poets will read their poems from the Midcoast Poetry Journal - Sunday April 13, 1 p.m. at Thomaston Public Libary; Wednesday April 23, 6 p.m. at Rockport Public Library; and Saturday April 26, 1:30 p.m. at Waldoboro Public Library.

Please see the Calendar for event details and directions. You will see “MPJ #1 *” at the beginning of the title. Thanks.

If you would like to schedule a Midcoast Poetry Journal event in April or in the months after, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Final note - Midcoast Poetry Journal Vol. 1 has 25 authors. The Journal is a poetry book created for poets by poets.  read more

Future issues of Midcoast Poetry Journal will be published by and available at online book sellers under the Midcoast Poetry Journal Publishing banner.

 

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

 

 

     More about us:  Collectively we have over 20 years of experience in the small independent publishing world. All of our books are handmade, perfect bound with spines fit for a library shelf, and done in small run editions.

     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.