Welcome to The Center of Poetry and Poetics

The Center for Poetry and Poetics is an internationally recognized center for the study of modern and contemporary poetry. Our multifaceted mission helps to make the University of Maine’s English Department unique among American universities.

Journal

Cover of Paideuma 43 showing a Helen Adam collage
A journal devoted to twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics

NPF Books

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Publishing books of and about modern and contemporary poetry

New Writing Series

Photograph of writer and poet Magdalena Zurawski & CA Conrad at the podium
Co-sponsoring the English Department’s New Writing Series and serving as custodian of its archive

Conferences and Symposia

Photograph of Burt Hatlen in front of a chalkboard representing an Ezra Pound Conference
Hosting conferences and symposia on modern and contemporary poetry since 1975