Welcome to The Third Fig Review where you will find articles, interviews, and poems, and get perspectives into what Millay House Rockland is doing both creatively and materially, as we continue to nurture poetry and the arts in midcoast Maine.

September 2026 • Issue No. 4
The Quest and the Quarrel
of the Poetry Prize

This edition of the Third Fig Review celebrates the winners of our inaugural Vincent Poetry Prize, looks back at what poetry contests meant for young Vincent in “Renascence” Revisited, and starts a conversation about the places of winning and losing in our lives as writers.

Editor’s Note

Introduction

Vincent Poetry Prize Winners + Honorable Mentions

The Quest
and the Quarrel

“Renascence” Revisited

Interviews