idearound poet
Paul McFarland is a local native who lives in Lincolnville. He taught algebra and geometry in New Hampshire for 10 years before working in the commercial fishing industry until his retirement at age 75. He has been featured on the local Belfast television station, and has had his poems in several periodicals. In 2020, Paul published Father’s Shoes, a book of poems written over the previous 20 years. His poems are rhymed and metered and always tell a story.