BETHEL Join BAAM at The Gem for a Celebration of Western Maine Poets with Maine Poet Laureate Julia Bouwsma on Friday, April 26 at 6 p.m. Five Western Maine Poets will join Julia in a round-robin style reading of their poems. Themes include the mysteries around us, the odd and/or the ordinary, loss and […]
Sonja Johanson
Sonja Johanson comes to us as a part of the generous American Life in Poetry project by Ted Kooser & The Poetry Foundation. Life in poetry is a free newsletter for poetry publications and allpoetry is a free community to encourage & educate poets.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 713 by Ted Kooser
I love accounts of people meeting up with wild creatures, as in Elizabeth Bishop s great poem, The Moose, and here s another such encounter from Sonja Johanson, who is from Maine. Johanson s most recent chapbook is Trees in Our Dooryards from Redbird Chapbooks.