Carol Bachofner

Carol Willette Bachofner, poet, photographer, and watercolorist, served as Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine from 2012 -2016. She is the author of 7 books of poetry. Her 8th, Every Place I Look, women with embers at their feet, was released on November 19, 2025 from Main Street Rag.

Bachofner’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Comstock Review, Cream City Review, as well as in the following anthologies, Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Writings from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), Enough!(Littoral Books 2020) and Wait (Littoral Books 2021).

Carol says: Poetry is a living thing, always evolving but never losing sight of its parentage, its parentage, its legacy.