North Woods at Night

<p><strong>Finalist - Maine Literary Awards 2025</strong></p><p></p><p>Maine's North Woods span 3.5 million acres-larger than Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon combined. <em>North Woods at Night: Literary Reflections on Maine's Largest Forest</em> sends 38 writers into those woods after dark returning with poems stories and essays that capture what the wilderness does to the human imagination when the lights go out.</p><p></p><p>Campfires and loons. A moose appearing at the edge of headlights. The particular silence of a frozen lake at midnight. The fear that turns unexpectedly into wonder. These writers don't romanticize the dark-they inhabit it each piece adding to a portrait of a landscape that is ancient vast and indifferent to human schedules.</p><p></p><p>With an introduction by Ret Talbot National Geographic contributor and award-winning science writer.</p><p></p><p>$1 from every sale supports the Forest Society of Maine conserving Maine's forest heritage for future generations.</p><p></p><p>Book 2 of the Literary Reflections On series.</p>