Attention should be given to the work of Dawn Potter. Dawn recently received a poetry grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation of Langley, Washington, a private foundation that supports writers.
Dawn is also associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in Franconia, New Hampshire, where she works alongside former Maine poet laureate Baron Wormser.
Living in Harmony, Maine, Dawn makes her living as a free-lance book editor, and teaches creative writing. She can be found at the mainearts.maine.gov Arts Commission Directory of Maine Artists.
Recent writing includes a Milton memoir, "Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton" due out from the University of Massachusetts Press in May 2009.
Also of note, a series of essays about books that she has reread many times. So far they deal with Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Austen's "Mansfield Park," Bronte's "Shirley," Dickens's "David Copperfield," as well as some related essays and reviews that deal with storytelling, character, the sonnet form, etc. Several have or will appear in Sewanee and Threepenny, and a British journal called The Reader has also expressed interest.
Her first book, "Boy Land & Other Poems," is available at local bookstores in Maine, such as Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick and Longfellow Books in Portland.
Howard Levy had this to say about "Boy Land & Other Poems." "One of the most difficult things in poetry is to control the "I," to let it stay innocent, to let it act and be acted upon freshly in the poem. Dawn Potter manages this difficult trick with ease. In her poems, no matter where she is, the consciousness is always fresh, the perceptions always immediate and the human connections always moving, moving us, as we are by the moments of life coming into focus, newly seen and absolutely clear."
In 2010 Dawn will have a collection published by CavanKerry Press.
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