Ralph Skip Stevens
Things Haven't Been the Same by Maine writer Ralph Skip Stevens

Ralph Skip Stevens

Ralph Stevens, known locally as “Skip,” lives in Ellsworth, Maine. He has done most of his work as a poet in response to the coastal environment of granite, spruce forest and the Atlantic Ocean. Stevens lived for many years on Little Cranberry Island near Bar Harbor, moving from Baltimore where he was on the faculty of Coppin State University as an English professor. The surge in online education in the early aughts allowed him to move while holding his faculty position and continuing to teach. Now retired, he devotes more time to writing.

He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the author of the collections At Bunker Cove (Moon Pie Press) and Things Haven’t Been the Same (Finishing Line Press). His poems have appeared in The Seattle Times, Crab Creek Review, The Lyric, The Maryland Review, The Christian Century, Verse-Virtual, The Island Reader, and on the radio programs, The Writer’s Almanac and Poems from Here. He can be reached by email at thismansart@gmail.com and by phone at 207.479.5843.