Menu Menu Julia Bouwsma, Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate, lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine and works as a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. A 2024 Academy of American Poets’ Poet Laureate Fellow, Bouwsma is the author of three collections: Death Fluorescence (Sundress Publications, 2025), Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018), and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017).
