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Julia Bouwsma

@BouwsmaJulia

Maine Poet Laureate, farmer, editor, small-town librarian, woods-dweller. Author of DEATH FLUORESCENCE (2025), MIDDEN (2018), and WORK BY BLOODLIGHT (2017).

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Julia Bouwsma @BouwsmaJulia (Maine). Bouwsma will launch the Write ME Epistolary Poetry Project, a statewide, multi-phase project that uses epistolary poetry—poetry in the form of exchanged letters—to build connections and communication across Maine.

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So excited to listen to our keynotes at our sold out March events! @MaineCELA #MCELA2023 Conference keynote Kelsey Stoyanova @mainelymiddle sponsored by @bangorsavings and @UMaine_COEHD and Poetry Night keynote Julia Bouwsma @BouwsmaJulia sponsored by @PortlandStageCo @MaineArts

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On a drive through Livermore, Maine poet laureate @BouwsmaJulia was struck by the chapel-like, Gothic-style library built by the prosperous Washburn family in 1883. downeast.com/our-towns/juli…


Reading an essay in which my student refers to the eighties and nineties as "the historical past." Someone tell me something to make me feel less old!


Want to join me for this 5-week poetry workshop starting May 11th? There are still open slots and a few days left to register. Come obsess with me! mainewriters.org/calendar/follo…


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Our DELIGHT issue is live! Huge thanks to all our contributors and to our hardworking editors, and special thanks to our amazing, and amazingly delightful, guest poetry editor @BouwsmaJulia ilanotreview.com

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Looking forward to reading all the wonderful delight poem submissions!

TOMORROW we open up for submissions on the theme of DELIGHT, with @BouwsmaJulia as our guest poetry editor! Submissions are free for two weeks!



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And we're so happy to have @BouwsmaJulia on board as our guest poetry editor for DELIGHT! ilanotreview.com/submissions-pa…


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The looter is Donald Trump, who with his tax cuts for corporations & the wealthy, cost Americans $1.5 trillion. The looters are the 623 US billionaires who made $434 billion more during the pandemic. The looters are ppl who made & inherited wealth created by slavery & genocide.


A tiny black shiny spider crawled on me. Freaked out that it might actually be a tiny tick, I smushed it with my thumb. Now my thumb is tingling. Venom or psychosomatic shame?


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Finally this evening, we close with a recording of Eavan Boland herself, reading her much beloved poem Quarantine, where she deftly finds grace and love in even the most tragic of scenes #RememberingEavan youtube.com/watch?v=wg-rtW…


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Still struggling w/ the “crisis is opportunity” framing of the pandemic across the ideological spectrum. Sounds a lot like “every cloud has a silver lining” (does it?? have you looked at a cloud lately?). Capitalism is addicted to crisis. How does this thinking free us from that?


This morning I was sad. Now my sink is full of ramps!

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the poem I wanted to write vs. the poem I wrote

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We are planning our conference for November — and looking forward to it! Our deadline for proposals is tomorrow, Thursday, April 30. Join us! cdwrightconference.org/2020-call-for-…


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Ok the other thing about this sale is it works on everything on the site! which is great bc fordham publishes poetry AND scholarship & I am both a poet AND a scholar (but not a gentleman sry) So you can get poems by @BouwsmaJulia @henkross or Darcie Dennigan...


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