The Candidates at the Fair
Sam Walter Foss tackles local politicans again
Eccentric “Pilgrim Stranger” Preached to Congress
Seacoast's Harriet Livermore dreamed of a day when women would be "clothed in the sun, and walk on the moon."
“A Tryst” by Celia Thaxter
Her poem foreshadowed a Titanic-like disaster
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed
Launching the First USS New Hampshire in 1864
It had lain in mothballs for 50 years before the Civil War created a supply crisis
Two Inland Noodles at the Sea
"The Farmer and the Ocean" by Will Carleton returns
The Two Loves of Annie Fields
The Boston marriage of "Widow" Fields
Hopelessness Springs Eternal for Maud Muller
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!"
Poet Robert Dunn Tackles Immortality
Portsmouth's "Penny Poet" cashes out
Political Poems for the Common Man
Sam Walter Foss distrusted politicians and rich folks, trusted common folks
The Simple Art of Uncle Oscar
Celia Thaxter's baby brother was an artist and poet too
Celia Thaxter’s Poem about a Norwegian Murder Victim
What can we learn from Celia Thaxter’s Norwegian poems?