Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem by Claire Hersom articulates many thoughts Mainers have had when contemplating the seasonal changes the lush fields around us undergo.   Seasons of the Field For Kate O’Grady, Pittston, Maine By Claire Hersom   Soon the field will stop its moving the buzzing of […]

A funny thing happened on the way to 2017 If there’s one thing we can say about 2016 it’s that it was one giant feast for comedians. If you spend the bulk of your time telling jokes, this zany year might have put you at risk of comedic overload. The presidential campaign alone was like […]

Productivity falls off sharplybut breakthroughs are stillpossible; just keep trying Many of this year’s cohort of Nobel laureates achieved their award-winning efforts when they were quite young — a phenomenon detected by decades of research on creativity. J. Michael Kosterlitz, co-recipient of the Nobel in physics, was 31 at the time of his prizewinning discovery, […]

Generally speaking, Christmas trees arrive in one of two ways: 1. You pack a saw and rope and drive to a Cut Your Own Tree Farm, which makes you feel like a beefy, whiskey-swilling, red-bearded lumberjack army — crawling through dirt and pine needles and probably fire ants until you ask a 19-year-old to help […]