The separate blogs in this site have been updated, to reflect some new work and recent activity. An addition to the School Readings page contains poems read at the opening faculty meeting of the Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School June 26, 2012. I have added a page titled "Effingham Poetry Workshops," with a summary of our third workshop held June 23, 2012. and poems by the participants.
The rather small number of copies of Fathers and Teachers and Mileposts that are still available (only one of Fathers and Teachers) have been transferred from the distributor to our residence in Wolfeboro, N.H. Scroll down for further information.
For index of all pages on this site, check "View My Complete Profile" at the right.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Recent and Upcoming Publications
Robert Demaree's poetry can be found in numerous online and print poetry journals, samples of recent work listed below.
Online Journals
Dead Snakes
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/robert-demaree-two-poems.html
June 2012
South Townsville Micro poetry journal
http://thesouthtownsvillemicropoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2012/04/robert-demaree.html
April 7, 2012
Ad Hoc Monadnock
http://www.adhocmonadnock.org/CurrentIssueTOC.html
check archives
Right Hand Pointinghttp://www.righthandpointing.com/
check archives, "big index"
Miller's Pond
http://www.millerspondpoetry.com/index.php/issues/web_editions1
volume 12, issue 1; volume 15, issue 1
Drown in My Own Fears
http://drowninmyownfears.angelfire.com/
Issues 7
Bolts of Silkhttp://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2009/03/grackles-by-robert-demaree.html
Thick With Convictionhttp://www.angelfire.com/poetry/thickwithconviction
Issues 7 and 12
Bird's Eye ReView (January 2010)
http://www.birdseyepoetry.org/
check archives
Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Week, February 8-14, 2010)
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppotw.html
Print Publications
Avocet (Southold, N.Y.)
Aurorean (Farmington, Me.)
Poet's Touchstone-N.H. Poetry Society
Tipton Poetry Journal (Zionsville, Ind.)
Voicings from the High Country (Casper, Wyo.)
Other work can be found online with a Google search of Robert Demaree poetry
Online Journals
Dead Snakes
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2012/06/robert-demaree-two-poems.html
June 2012
South Townsville Micro poetry journal
http://thesouthtownsvillemicropoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2012/04/robert-demaree.html
April 7, 2012
Ad Hoc Monadnock
http://www.adhocmonadnock.org/CurrentIssueTOC.html
check archives
Right Hand Pointinghttp://www.righthandpointing.com/
check archives, "big index"
Miller's Pond
http://www.millerspondpoetry.com/index.php/issues/web_editions1
volume 12, issue 1; volume 15, issue 1
Drown in My Own Fears
http://drowninmyownfears.angelfire.com/
Issues 7
Bolts of Silkhttp://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2009/03/grackles-by-robert-demaree.html
Thick With Convictionhttp://www.angelfire.com/poetry/thickwithconviction
Issues 7 and 12
Bird's Eye ReView (January 2010)
http://www.birdseyepoetry.org/
check archives
Poetry Super Highway (Poet of the Week, February 8-14, 2010)
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppotw.html
Print Publications
Avocet (Southold, N.Y.)
Aurorean (Farmington, Me.)
Poet's Touchstone-N.H. Poetry Society
Tipton Poetry Journal (Zionsville, Ind.)
Voicings from the High Country (Casper, Wyo.)
Other work can be found online with a Google search of Robert Demaree poetry
Poetry Classes and Readings
Second book-length collection MILEPOSTS Limited Number of Copies Still Available--
In his second book-length collection, Robert Demaree turns his attention to the place and time of life he knows as Golden Pines and takes us back to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, whose mythic woods and meadows informed Fathers and Teachers.
Again, he finds in the experiences of everyday living a poetry that is ironic, bittersweet, always accessible, and, as John-Michael Albert (editor of the 2008 and 2010 editions of the Poets' Guide to New Hampshire) notes, "demands further consideration."
"Like Ted Kooser and Billy Collins, Demaree is able to present singular experiences with a startling reality that rings true. It is his mastery of voice and diction, of sentiment and reality that allows Demaree to balance the personal with the global and still retain the reader's trust...his account is personal and therefore...specific and wonderful."
—Jillian Meyer Bledsoe, author of Leaving Newfound and co-editor, Ghoti magazine.
$12.95 / paperback / 86 pages / Beech River Books / 2009 / ISBN 978-0-9825214-0-3
Robert Demaree is the author of four collections of poems, including Fathers and Teachers, published in 2007. He has had approximately 600 poems published or accepted by more than 125 periodicals. A retired school administrator with ties to North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, he has also written a history of Greensboro Day School.
To order: send $15.00 ( includes postage) to:
Robert Demaree, 2080 Sullivan Park Circle, Burlington, NC 27215. For further information, visit http://www.beechriverbooks.com/
Poetry Readings, Classes and Workshops
Robert H. Demaree Jr.
Shepherd's Center Adventures in Learning
Greensboro, N.C.
April 25--May 30, 2013
First Baptist Church
1000 W. Friendly Ave.
Greensboro, N.C.
Thursdays 10:45 a.m.--11:45 a.m.
Poetry Seminar/Workshop
Thursdays 10:45 a.m.--11:45 a.m.
Poetry Seminar/Workshop
"The Poetry of Time and Place"
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Effingham Public Library
Effingham, N.H.
10:00 a.m.--2:00 p.m.
Poetry in the Twin Lakes Club Room
Burlington, N.C.
October 24, 2013
10:00 a.m.
Poet Lariats with Janet Warman, Guest reader
10:00 a.m.--2:00 p.m.
Poetry in the Twin Lakes Club Room
Burlington, N.C.
October 24, 2013
10:00 a.m.
Poet Lariats with Janet Warman, Guest reader
Recent Readings, Programs and Classes
2013
Jan. 17--Feb. 28 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
February 27--The Village at Brookwood, Burlington, N.C.
Mar. 22, 25; Apr. 5--20th Century Poetry Seminar, with Dr. Griff Campbell, Twin Lakes Community, Burlington, N.C.
April 18--Contemporary Poetry Seminar, Life at Elon Program, Elon University, Elon, N.C.
April 25--June 6 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
May 14--Burlington Writers Club Awards Banquet ("Piano Lessons" First Place)
May 20--Reading for Greensboro Day School faculty
2012
Jan. 19--Feb. 23 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
April 12 Friends Home Guilford, Greensboro, N.C.
April 16 Greensboro Day School faculty, Greensboro N.C.
June 23 "Poetry and Personal Identity" workshop, Effingham, N.H.
June 26 Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School faculty, Wolfeboro, N.H.
September 4 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.
October 30 "Life at Elon," Elon University, Elon, N.C.
November 16 Greensboro Day School Ninth-Grade English classes
2010
January 7 Ex Libris Book Club Greensboro, N.C.
January 25 Reading & Signing Twin Lakes Community Burlington, N.C.
February 8 Abbotswood at Irving Park Greensboro, N.C.
February 9 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
February 27 Burlington Writers Club Alamance Comm. College Graham, N.C.
March 23-April 13 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.
April 20 Trinity Oaks Retirement Community Salisbury, N.C.
April 24 Greensboro Day School 40th Anniversary Greensboro, N.C.
April 26 Bill Moyers' Fooling With Words Twin Lakes Book Club Burlington, N.C.
May 8 Burlington Writers Club Graham, N.C. "Putting Together a Collection"
May 17 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.
2013
Jan. 17--Feb. 28 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
February 27--The Village at Brookwood, Burlington, N.C.
Mar. 22, 25; Apr. 5--20th Century Poetry Seminar, with Dr. Griff Campbell, Twin Lakes Community, Burlington, N.C.
April 18--Contemporary Poetry Seminar, Life at Elon Program, Elon University, Elon, N.C.
April 25--June 6 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
May 14--Burlington Writers Club Awards Banquet ("Piano Lessons" First Place)
May 20--Reading for Greensboro Day School faculty
2012
Jan. 19--Feb. 23 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
April 12 Friends Home Guilford, Greensboro, N.C.
April 16 Greensboro Day School faculty, Greensboro N.C.
June 23 "Poetry and Personal Identity" workshop, Effingham, N.H.
June 26 Wolfeboro Summer Boarding School faculty, Wolfeboro, N.H.
September 4 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.
October 30 "Life at Elon," Elon University, Elon, N.C.
November 16 Greensboro Day School Ninth-Grade English classes
2011
January 25 Village at Brookwood, Burlington, N.C.
February 2 PEO Sisterhood, Chapter F, Greensboro, N.C.
February 14 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields, Mebane, N.C.
Jan. 20--Feb. 24 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
February 24 LifeVerse class, Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
March 1 Guilford College Art Appreciation Club, Greensboro, N.C.
March 15 PEO Sisterhood Charities Benefit, Burlington, N.C.
March 21 New Garden Friends Poetry Critique Group, Greensboro, N.C. Workshop "To See and See Again"
April 20 Holy Comforter Episcopal Church Men's Breakfast, Burlington, N.C.
April 28--June 2 Shepherd's Center, Greensboro, N.C.
June 25 "To See and See Again" workshop, Effingham, N.H.
September 6 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.
November 7 New Garden Friends Poetry Critique Group, Greensboro, N.C. Workshop "Poets and Publishing: The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"
December 15 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields, Mebane, N.C.
2010
January 7 Ex Libris Book Club Greensboro, N.C.
January 25 Reading & Signing Twin Lakes Community Burlington, N.C.
February 8 Abbotswood at Irving Park Greensboro, N.C.
February 9 Presbyterian Home at Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
February 27 Burlington Writers Club Alamance Comm. College Graham, N.C.
March 23-April 13 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.
April 20 Trinity Oaks Retirement Community Salisbury, N.C.
April 24 Greensboro Day School 40th Anniversary Greensboro, N.C.
April 26 Bill Moyers' Fooling With Words Twin Lakes Book Club Burlington, N.C.
May 8 Burlington Writers Club Graham, N.C. "Putting Together a Collection"
May 17 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.
April 8-May 13 Shepherd's Center Greensboro, N.C.
May 20 First Presbyterian Church Burlington, N.C.
June 3 Solgarden Gift Shop Mebane, N.C. (Burlington Writers Club)
June 26 Effingham Library, Effingham, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"
August 28 Effingham Library, Effingham, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"
September 7 Moultonborough Library, Moultonborough, N.H.
September 15 Goodwin Library, Farmington, N.H. Workshop: "The Amateur Poet and the World of the Small Press"
Oct. 19-Nov. 8 Access to Poetry class Abbotswood at Irving Park, Greensboro, N.C.
November 9 English-Speaking Union Greensboro, N.C. "Using Poetry to Retrieve the Past."
November 10 Creative Writing Class, Greensboro Day School, Greensboro, N.C.
2009
January 27 Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
February 9 Abbotswood Greensboro, N.C.
February 16 Friends Home Guilford Greensboro, N.C.
March 17 WhiteStone Greensboro, N.C.
March 31 Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
April 9 Well Spring Greensboro, N.C.
April 13 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.
May 6 PennyByrn at Maryfield High Point, N.C.
May 9 Twin Lakes UU Fellowship Burlington, N.C.
May 11 Twin Lakes Vision Support Group Burlington, N.C.
May 17 St. Andrews Episcopal Church Greensboro, N.C.
May 26 River Landing at Sandy Ridge Colfax, N.C.
June 18 Effingham Library Effingham, N.H.
August 16 Wolfeboro:The Summer Boarding School Wolfeboro, N.H.
September 14 Conway Library Conway, N.H.
September 27 Sugar Hill Retirement Community Wolfeboro, N.H.
October 1 Mel Flanagan's Irish Pub & Cafe Rochester, N.H.
Oct. 20--Nov. 10 Access to Poetry class Abbotswood Greensboro, N.C.
November 11 WhiteStone Greensboro, N.C.
November 16 PEO Chapter CF Greensboro, N.C.
Nov. 9-30 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.
2009
January 27 Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
February 9 Abbotswood Greensboro, N.C.
February 16 Friends Home Guilford Greensboro, N.C.
March 17 WhiteStone Greensboro, N.C.
March 31 Hawfields Mebane, N.C.
April 9 Well Spring Greensboro, N.C.
April 13 Greensboro Day School Faculty Greensboro, N.C.
May 6 PennyByrn at Maryfield High Point, N.C.
May 9 Twin Lakes UU Fellowship Burlington, N.C.
May 11 Twin Lakes Vision Support Group Burlington, N.C.
May 17 St. Andrews Episcopal Church Greensboro, N.C.
May 26 River Landing at Sandy Ridge Colfax, N.C.
June 18 Effingham Library Effingham, N.H.
August 16 Wolfeboro:The Summer Boarding School Wolfeboro, N.H.
September 14 Conway Library Conway, N.H.
September 27 Sugar Hill Retirement Community Wolfeboro, N.H.
October 1 Mel Flanagan's Irish Pub & Cafe Rochester, N.H.
Oct. 20--Nov. 10 Access to Poetry class Abbotswood Greensboro, N.C.
November 11 WhiteStone Greensboro, N.C.
November 16 PEO Chapter CF Greensboro, N.C.
Nov. 9-30 Access to Poetry class Twin Lakes Burlington, N.C.
Available for Readings and Programs
Robert Demaree is available for poetry readings and programs without charge to non-profit organizations.
Access to Contemporary Poetry (1-3 hours)
A look at several 20th and 21st century poets, to show how poets communicate in accessible language.
Telling Your Story (1-4 sessions)
Interactive workshop. Participants who wish to will use techniques of accessible poetry to convey personal and family stories.
Workshops and Programs for High School Creative Writing Classes and Literary Magazine Staffs
Workshops Primarily for Poets
Publication and Marketing: The Poet and the World of the Small Press
To See and See Again: Techniques of Composition and Revision
Poetry and Personal Identity
The Poetry of Time and Place
Robert Demaree’s programs have been well received by groups ranging from high school students to senior citizens’ groups. He has been the featured reader at numerous poetry venues in the Northeast and North Carolina, including libraries at Conway, Wolfeboro, Moultonborough, Effingham and Center Strafford, N.H., Lovell, Me., the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Guild, English-Speaking Union, the Twin Lakes, Arbor Acres, Penny Bryn and Well Spring retirement communities, and the Rust Pond Association.
- Using Poetry to Retrieve the Past (45 minutes)
Bob draws on the work of Jane Kenyon and Ted Kooser, as well as his own work, to examine how we can use the techniques of poets to create narratives of the past. Program designed for club meetings, luncheon programs, etc.
- Readings with Commentary (10-60 minutes)
- Programs and Brief Workshops
Access to Contemporary Poetry (1-3 hours)
A look at several 20th and 21st century poets, to show how poets communicate in accessible language.
Telling Your Story (1-4 sessions)
Interactive workshop. Participants who wish to will use techniques of accessible poetry to convey personal and family stories.
Workshops and Programs for High School Creative Writing Classes and Literary Magazine Staffs
Workshops Primarily for Poets
Publication and Marketing: The Poet and the World of the Small Press
To See and See Again: Techniques of Composition and Revision
Poetry and Personal Identity
The Poetry of Time and Place
Robert Demaree’s programs have been well received by groups ranging from high school students to senior citizens’ groups. He has been the featured reader at numerous poetry venues in the Northeast and North Carolina, including libraries at Conway, Wolfeboro, Moultonborough, Effingham and Center Strafford, N.H., Lovell, Me., the Greensboro, N.C., Historical Guild, English-Speaking Union, the Twin Lakes, Arbor Acres, Penny Bryn and Well Spring retirement communities, and the Rust Pond Association.
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