<p>The study of the Humanities is the study of what makes us human, which is a seemingly infinite and infinitely difficult subject. Most definitions of what make us human seem to break down or melt into definitions of other living beings. One thing that does seem to distinguish humans from other species is our attempt both to discuss the human condition and to record that discussion for future generations. The best of these recordings, which take various forms in arts and letters, help us to understand the world around us and to give it meaning. For this reason, people seeking answers to difficult questions tend to return century after century to these same readings. Selections from the Old Testament, Homer, Pericles, Plato, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, the New Testament, Medieval Song Tradition, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, Pico, Montaigne, Luther, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Behn, Barker, Pope, Jefferson, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Darwin, Tennyson, Marx and Engels, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Maupassant, Freud, Gilman, Eliot, Owen, Stein, and Rogers.</p>

The Essential Humanities Reader

Literature & Fiction

NeCastro, Gerard P.

Literary

Primavera Press, The

<p>Through the door of the stately Porter Memorial Library on the last Friday of every month, the Porter Poets, as we call ourselves, have trooped. We sit down around a couple of aging tables near the old fireplace to read our poems, hear poems from others, and offer both criticism and encouragement. We come from Machias, the Washington County “shire town” where the library is located, but also from Addison, East Machias, Cutler, Beals Island, Jonesboro, Milbridge, Northfield, Roque Bluffs, and other towns on Washington County’s coast. You wouldn’t expect much poetry from so remote a location. Yet poetry’s power is evident even here where there are mostly trees. A poet seems scribbling behind every third fir and fourth maple. We’re not creating cleverness, however. We have things to say. From the Introduction by Gerald George</p>

From a Far Corner: An Anthology of Poetry from the Easternmost Reaches of Maine

George, Gerald

Hill, Andrea Suarez

Cadot, Andrew A.

Leaver, Anne

Johnson, Dianna Ammons

Crane, Donald

Sheridan, Grace

Jacob, Joanne

Larson, Kris

Poetry

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