Julia Bouwsma lives off the grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she works as a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth poet laureate, currently serving a term from 2021 to 2026, and is the author of three poetry collections: the forthcoming Death Fluorescence (Sundress Publications, 2025), Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018), and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017).
Rural Spaces
Fall 2024
After We Wound the Land to Maps
after Franny ChoiBetter stewardship than ownership, but this wooded hill has neverneeded anyone. Without us, it stretched its green flanks feraluntil blackberry canes cracked under their own weight, deer trampedswitchback […]