Rivers of Ink

<p><strong>Finalist - Maine Literary Awards 2024</strong></p><p></p><p>Maine's Penobscot River has shaped the land the people and the stories of an entire region for thousands of years. <em>Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot</em> gathers 61 Maine writers-poets essayists and fiction writers-to trace that legacy through essays fiction and poetry that move from the river's Indigenous origins to its industrial past to its uncertain environmental future.</p><p></p><p>With an introduction by Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset-attorney activist and author from the Penobscot Nation-this anthology honors both the river and the communities it sustains. The collection spans geological time personal memory and cultural reckoning offering a portrait of a waterway that is as contested as it is beloved.</p><p></p><p>$1 from every sale supports Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters and their A Monumental Welcome campaign funding a new visitor station and Wabanaki-directed projects.</p><p></p><p>Book 1 of the Literary Reflections On series.</p>