Shack on the Edge of a Field

This post, on this blog, has been a little shack holding a place for a still-in-construction website devoted to the writing life of Polly Brown, a poet, writer, and teacher who lives in Maine. I'm now updating to say that you can check out my progress with the new website at pollybrownpoet.com. 

Although my page on the website of Every Other Thursday Poets no longer exists, the group is still meeting, mostly by Zoom, and it is still a kind of paradise of encouragement and challenge for its members. 

The publisher of Pebble Leaf Feather Knife, has closed down suddenly and completely. Two wonderful bookstores in Farmington, Maine still carry copies, Amazon appears to have a few, and I still have some.  Other arrangements are in the works.

A new book of my poems, Stitching, will be released in early 2026 by Every Other Thursday Press. I've worked with book designer Sarah Bennett. (If you need a great book designer, you can find her at shbennettbookdesign.com.    

To explore my blog about the daily texture of progressive education, written to explore the richness of teaching within an extraordinary community of learners, go to ayeartothinkitover.com 

The other posts on this blog (right here) offer an odd amalgamation of experience bridging the writing and teaching parts of my life, embraced here, pretty accurately, by the name Villages. My favorite post (right now) is the one about Darwin's letters: http://pollybrownpoet.blogspot.com/2010/07/ive-just-finished-reading-selection-of.html