This month’s poem is “A Snail Primer” by Mihku Paul. Call 207-828-5607 to hear Mihku’s poem, read by the author.
“A Snail Primer” was originally published in From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets from the Northeast (NatureCulture, 2023).
Mihku Paul (@riverdaughter58) is a Wolastoqey poet and interdisciplinary artist who grew up on a wild Maine river. Her family hails from Kingsclear First Nation, N.B. Canada. Mihku has spent decades working in Portland Public Schools on enrichment curriculum for Waponahki Studies.
Recent work includes Love Letter for a Wild Maine River (Sebago Lake Storytelling Project – forthcoming documentary), Msi-te ktahkomiq kintaqot (Whitman on Walls) and an experimental film collaboration with filmmaker Dawn Nye, Putep Qotatokot-te Elewestaq (The Whale was Speaking). Mihku lives and works in Portland.
The 2024 Poetry Hotline is a screenless exhibition available to anyone with access to a phone. The 2024 Poetry Hotline offers audiences a direct line to Maine-based and national poets and their visions for the future, and another medium to connect and inspire audiences with heartache, love, humor, rage, and regeneration.
