Rivers of Ink
Description
Finalist ? Maine Literary Awards 2024
Maine's Penobscot River has shaped the land, the people, and the stories of an entire region for thousands of years. Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot gathers 61 Maine writers?poets, essayists, and fiction writers?to trace that legacy through essays, fiction, and poetry that move from the river's Indigenous origins to its industrial past to its uncertain environmental future.
With an introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset?attorney, activist, and author from the Penobscot Nation?this anthology honors both the river and the communities it sustains. The collection spans geological time, personal memory, and cultural reckoning, offering a portrait of a waterway that is as contested as it is beloved.
$1 from every sale supports Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters and their "A Monumental Welcome" campaign, funding a new visitor station and Wabanaki-directed projects.
"Brimming with voices as diverse as the river's currents and the land through which it flows, Rivers of Ink is a significant addition to the literature of the Penobscot." ?Kristen Britain, New York Times bestselling author
"The writers in Rivers of Ink speak to us about the power of place, how one river connects us all." ?Stuart Kestenbaum, former poet laureate of Maine
Book 1 of the Literary Reflections On series.
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Content
Liquidation, Karin Spitfire
Our Once and Future River, Paul A. Liebow
Reflections on the Water, Patricia Smith Ranzoni
I Saw an Eagle Die Today, Jean Anne Feldeisen
South Turner Mountain, Matt Bernier
Law of Conservation of Bobbi, Gary Rainford
Deep in the Forest, Twinkle Marie Manning
Rocky River, High Water, Doug Barrett
Nine Ways to Get to Bangor, Linda Buckmaster
Yin and Yang, at Morse Cove, James Brasfield
on blue rushing river, Lisa Panepinto
Follow the River Home, Chris Davis
Empty Lot, Meg Weston
Brackish, Josh Kauppila
The Same Stream Twice, Valerie Campbell
Polar Vortex, Hans Krichels
Wild Song, Leslie Moore
Vita Nuova, Doug Barrett
Thus Spoke the River, Emma G. Rose
Watershed Haibun, Kathleen Ellis
I Wish I Could Describe Winter Sky in Maine, Jean Anne Feldeisen
The River School, Geoff Wingard
Spring Running, Kara Douglas
She Is the Waves, Mo Drammeh
The Blood Moon Tolls, Meg Weston
Restoration, Patricia Smith Ranzoni
Tavern on the River, Morgan Campbell
my boat drifts, Lisa Panepinto
Hexagenia, Matt Bernier
Osprey, James Brasfield
Keep Heart, Josh Kauppila
A Letter from the Penobscot River Serpent as Dictated to Ryan George Collins, Ryan George Collins
A Tree, Michelle Choiniere
The Forest, It Lay Bare Now, Twinkle Marie Manning
Turtle Eggs, Doug Barrett
Camp Hope, Elliana LaBree
Hot Cocoa, Alice May Hotopp
The Woman Walked to the Mailbox, Kristen Clanton
Glacier, Betty Culley
The Legend of Haskell Rock, Christopher Packard
Beauty Is a Blessing, Gary Rainford
Becoming the Food of Stars, Suzanne DeWitt Hall
It's You, It's YOU!!, Sarah Carlson
A Day in the Life of a River Driver, Mary Morton Cowan
First Light (Mattawamkeag), Douglas W. Milliken
Smokestack Down, Hans Krichels
Penobscot River Rock, Christopher C.C. Lee
When All Is Right Here, the Fish Return, Kara Douglas
Something in the Water, Shane Layman
Penobscot, West Branch, in January, MC Moeller
Full Chorus, Jean Anne Feldeisen
Lucky Streak, Leslie Moore
At the Water's Edge, Sarah Walker Caron
Life and the Day, James Brasfield
Riverine, Shannon Bowring
White Canvas, by Thomas, J.D. Mankowski
Confluence, Catherine J.S. Lee
Of Wolves and Sharks, Ret Talbot
i ride with her in silk, Lisa Panepinto
Scripture, Kara Douglas
Welcome to the Penobscot, Pajaro Jai/Enchanted Bird, Patricia Smith Ranzoni
A Penobscot Bay Love Letter, Brenda E. Smith
if she remembers, Gabriella Fryer
Into the Forest, Meadow Rue Merrill
Once Again, the River Runs Wild, Robert Klose
Queen of Pines, Twinkle Marie Manning
To Be of the River, Katie Coppens
The Lost Child of Bangor's Waterfront, Michelle E. Shores
Great Blue, Leslie Moore
Poetry Camp Duck Club, Gary Rainford
The Blood Moon Returns, Meg Weston
Narrow River to the North, Kathleen Ellis
Water Wisdom at Play, Sarah Carlson
The Dark Trout, Matt Bernier
My Triangle, Hank Garfield
Following Neil, Claire Ackroyd
The Mighty Penobscot River, Pam Dixon Oertel
The Penobscot, Outside My Window, Rhea Côté Robbins
Bass and Black Glass, K.W. Bernard
The Mystery of Bagaduse and the Penobscot Watershed's Monsters, Loren Coleman
Pines, Stand Lee Sands
No Salmon Were Harmed in the Making of This Poem, Kathleen Ellis
Follow the Stream, Josh Kauppila
How to Catch a Salmon, Catherine Schmitt
From the West, Michelle Choiniere
Letting Go: Down by the River, Annaliese Jakimides
This River, Laurie Apgar Chandler
The River Mystery, Jennifer Nelson Simpson
Isn't It Beautiful?, Avalon Tate
