Feb. 6: opening of "Foundlings" -- an ekphrastic collaboration with sculptor Jill Dalton

For the past three years, artist Jill Dalton has been creating a series of found-art sculpture-puppets called Foundlings, and Megan has been writing poems about them.

Now, images of the resulting 12+ sculptures, along with the poems that they inspired, are now collected in a small monograph called Foundlings.

This book launches in conjunction with the exhibit “Detritus,” at Mayo Street Arts, in which some of these sculptures and poems will be on display. The exhibit opens on February 6, 2026. from 5-8 pm— with some poems to be read aloud informally , near the sculptures that inspired them, around 6.

The Foundlings monograph will be available in the gallery for purchase, or can be ordered here.

short choral piece in "Songs from Here" 2024 program

The short choral piece “The Great Blue,” with libretto by Megan and score by Marianna Fillipi, for soprano and piano, will be part of the “Songs from Here” 2024 tour. The program is themed on love, and “The Great Blue” is about our love of nature, using the symbol of the great blue heron to meditate on the larger “great blue” of the ocean, sky, and our sweet blue planet. Performance dates below; visit the Songs from Here website for more info.

Essay on environmental librettos in Impact

Megan’s essay on three of her environmental librettos, titled “Immersion, and Invitation,” appeared in a special issue of Boston University’s Impact: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning.

"Through the Eyes of an Octopus" to be performed in Camden and Portland

Megan collaborated as librettist with composer Marianna Filippi on the short musical work “Through the Eyes of an Octopus.” This summer of 2022, the piece will be performed by Icelandic ensemble KIMI at the Camden Opera House, on July 8, and in Portland’s Mechanics Hall, on July 10.

"Persephone" named finalist for Maine Book Award

Persephone in the Late Anthropocene was named one of three finalists for the 2021 Maine Book Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Winners will be announced on May 27.

"PERSEPHONE" art exhibit viewable remotely, via video

Together with co-curator Jenna Crowder, Megan curated a gallery exhibit of artists in response to Persephone and the issue of climate crisis. The exhibit, hosted at the University of New England’s Ketchum Gallery, included works by Patrick Corrigan and Hannah Wade, as well as poems and music from Persephone. Watch videographer Jared Lank’s beautiful video of the exhibit here.

Megan reads with Women eco-poets March 31

Megan reads from Persephone with other women ecopoets as part of “What Would Rachel Say?,” a reading co-hosted by the Kennebunk Free Library and the Southern Maine Planeteers. Wednesday, March 31, at 6 pm. Zoom link is here.

Megan talks with The Cloudy House

Read Megan’s interview with The Cloudy House about Persephone and project books — what they can be and do.

Megan discusses PERSEPHONE at Portland Public Library

Megan reads and talks about the book with poet and MWPA Executive Director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc. Watch the video.

Persephone Virtual Launch Oct 15!

*** Join Megan online on October 15, at 7 pm, for the Persephone Virtual Book Launch! Co-hosted by SPACE Gallery and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, with a digital Greek Chorus, experimental crypto-documentary film snippets, and music from the original opera’s score, by composer Denis Nye.***

Megan's paean to the Maine coast set to imagery in Maine Coast Heritage Trust video

Megan tells of her connection to the coast in this beautiful video directed by Mark Ireland for the Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s 50th anniversary celebration.

"Solving for M" excerpt a finalist for Tupelo Quarterly's Prose Open

An excerpt from Megan’s long-form lyric essay Solving for M was named a finalist in Tupelo Quarterly’s 2018 Prose Open competition. Read it here.

Upcoming: "Interactive Tidal Ode" under the Casco Bay Bridge!

Join Megan and the rest of the KING TIDE PARTY artists to CELEBRATE THE "QUEEN" TIDE under the Casco Bay Bridge in South Portland!

Help Megan create and perform an INTERACTIVE TIDAL ODE, listen to the Machias rock band BEACH TRASH, and welcome all that the low tide reveals. Free and open to all! 

Saturday, September 8, 2018, 3-5 pm
Thomas Knight Park, South Portland, under the Casco Bay Bridge
More event info here. 

The KING TIDE PARTY is a collective of artists whose mission is to develop new and imaginative ways of communicating the reality of sea level change. 

Megan speaks of the coast at MCHT

At a Maine Coast Heritage Trust event announcing the Trust's exciting new fundraising initiative, Megan spoke of her love of the places where the land meets the sea. Read excepts of her remarks. 

Megan goes to Monson!

Megan is selected as a resident in the inaugural group of artists at the Monson Arts! She will be writing by a lake as she works on a long-form lyric essay. 

Megan's poem "Vacation" featured in PPH column Deep Water

Megan's poem "Vacation," about existential vertigo in Old San Juan, appeared in the Portand Press Herald's poetry feature Deep Water, edited by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.

"Stuff," from Booker's Point, featured on Poems from Here

Megan's poem "Stuff," about old Maine woodsman Booker's collection of things, is read on MPBN by Maine Poet Laureate Stu Kestenbaum. Listen here. 

"Persephone's Blues Song" featured in the Portland Press Herald

Portland Poet Laureate Gibson Fay-LeBlanc included "Persphone's Blues Song" as this week's featured poem in his column Deep Water. 

"STORYTELLING OBJECTS": POEM-SONGS AT THE PMA

Megan and violist/composer Leigh-Ashley Milne present scored poems inspired by objects represented in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art. Other presenting writers include Desi Van Til, Jaed Coffin, Kifah Abdullah, and Andrew Griswold.

"Booker's Point" wins 2017 Maine Literary Award for Poetry

Megan's debut collection was awarded the book prize for poetry, sponsored by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. 

Read the story in the Portland Press Herald.