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Linda Buckmaster

Writer • Teacher • Wanderer

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Recent Recognition

Prose/Hybrid

“My Brother’s Liver. A Paddle Out,”  Main Street Rag, 2022

“Gardenias,” Burrow Press Review, 2022

Staged Reading: Selections from “Short Shorts. Boomer Women Tell Stories” 2021

Excerpt from “Short Shorts,” North by Northeast, Littoral Press, 2021

“Outbreak,” Maine Arts Journal, 2021

Notable Essay: Best American Essays 2020, Andre Aciman, Judge

Notable Essay: Best American Essays 2013, Cheryl Strayed, Judge


Poetry

“The Future,” Maine Arts Journal, 2022

“Elemental,” Portland (ME) Museum of Art ARTWORD, 2021

“Sex Ex, 1963,” Burningwood, 2020

“The Caretakers,” “Barrier Island, Cape Canaveral,” The Island Review (UK) 2020

“Entering the Abandoned Grain Mill at Dusk,” Balancing Act 2, Littoral Press, 2019

“Red Apolog,” “Markings,” Café Review, 2019

“Northern Run,” Maine Review, 2018


Other

Newspaper Column: “Poets’ Walk,” Republican Journal, 2021

WORD Literary Conference Panel: “The Ethics of Writing Memoir,” 2019


Books

Space Heart: A Memoir in Stages, Burrow Press, 2018

Heart Song and Other Legacies, Illuminated Sea Press, 2007

Momentitos: A Mexican Journey, Huntress Press, 2004


Audio Essays

“How I Came to Maine”

I left Space Coast Florida in 1969 and after a few years of wandering I found myself in Maine.

https://lindabuckmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2018/06/How-I-Came-To-Maine-4.m4a

“Bumper V-2”

First rocket from Cape Canaveral.

https://lindabuckmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2018/06/Bumper-V2.-4-1.m4a

“Got No Juju”

Written and recorded at Obras residency in Portugal.

https://lindabuckmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2018/05/Juju-2-2.m4a

“Schlump”

A quote by musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson got me going down this thought track.

https://lindabuckmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2018/04/Schlump-1.m4a

“Radio Waves”

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Space Heart. A Memoir in Stages. It was originally broadcast on community radio station WERU.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/weru/archives/2018/esoterica-20180320.mp3

 

 

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