Poems from Here
Poems from Here, a weekly poetry program on Maine Public Radio with help from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, continues for another year! This program was first created in 2017 by former Maine State Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and ran through 2021, and the 2022 reboot brought five new hosts, Maine State Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma and fellow poets Samaa Abdurraqib, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Mihku Paul, and Arisa White.
Submissions are now OPEN
through August 31 for our 2025 Series
please email info@mainewriters.org with any questions.
Submission Guidelines
Poems from Here is open to all poets who live in Maine or who have spent significant time in Maine. If you have had a poem featured in the last two years, please refrain from submitting.
Please submit 3–5 poems, and include a cover letter with a brief bio.
Submissions must be made via Submittable. If you do not have a Submittable account, you will be required to register for a free account.
Poems can be previously published as long as the appropriate permissions/credit information is included.
Previously published poems may be submitted but must be noted as such.
Poems can be submitted simultaneously as long as we are notified through Submittable if a poem is no longer available for consideration.
Please Note: We will send a response either way, but please expect the response time to be long. We expect to receive several hundred poems and can only choose 52 for a year and have 5 different poets choosing work. Please also do not pay much attention to the "status" listed in Submittable. Because of how we process and read these submissions, that status is not always accurate nor does it reflect if a submission has been read or is in the process of being read.
Poems from Here is made possible by:
