Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Contributors: Kathleen Lignell Ellis, Mark Baldwin
Topic: A WERU 20th Anniversary “Hear Again” special from our archives. Today-Excerpts from conversations with Maine poets who are no longer with us.
What poets influenced May Sarton, Philip Booth, Sylvester Pollet, Constance Hunting? In Philip Booth’s opinion, who was the last great 19th century Amercian poet and who was the first great 20th century American poet? Do May Sarton, Philip Booth, Sylvester Pollet, Constance Hunting consider themselves Maine poets? Why or why not?