Julia Bouwsma
August 1 - August 20
Kingfield, Maine | Literary Arts & Poetry
About Julia
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE NAMED MAINE’S POET LAUREATE
Annex Arts congratulates Julia on being named Maine’s Poet Laureate.
Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, farmer, editor, and small-town librarian. She is the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017). Honors she has received include the 2019 and 2018 Maine Literary Awards for Poetry Book, the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize, and the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, River Styx, and other journals. She serves as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, Maine.
While in Residence
While Julia Bouwsma is apt to surrender to whatever inspiration finds her in the moment, she primarily plans to use her residency time to begin work on a book of poems in conversation with the life and writing of Edna St. Vincent Millay, a project inspired in part by the fact that Millay’s paternal great-grandmother is buried on Bouwsma’s property in western Maine.
Talk: MIDDEN
Julia Bouwsma will be participating in a Village Reads conversation on her poetry collection Midden, which explores Maine’s 1912 eviction and erasure of the residents of Malaga Island.