Dawn Potter

Dawn Potter is the author of six poetry collections: Boy Land & Other Poems (Deerbrook Editions), How the Crimes Happened (CavanKerry Press), Same Old Story (CavanKerry Press), Chestnut Ridge (Deerbrook Editions), Accidental Hymn (Deerbrook Editions), and most recently Calendar (Deerbrook Editions). She has also published the memoir Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press), the essay collection The Vagabond’s Bookshelf (Deerbrook Editions), and a teaching volume The Conversation: Learning to Be a Poet (Deerbrook Editions). In addition, she has served as editor for A Poet’s Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present (Autumn House Press). A finalist for the National Poetry Series, Dawn has won a Maine Literary Award for nonfiction and has received grants and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Writer’s Center, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Sewanee Review, the Threepenny Review, and many other journals. After teaching at the Frost Place for more than a decade, she now leads poetry programs at Monson Arts. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Dawn Potter's Autumn House Books