On Thursday, March 28, Maine Maritime Museum will host the second annual “Voices of the Sea: The Poetry and Song of Maine’s Fishermen and Those Who Work on the Water” at DiMillo’s On the Water, Commercial Street in Portland, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Following in the tradition of ever popular cowboy poetry events, “Voices of the Sea” features professionals from the maritime world who use their art to illuminate the hard and often invisible work they do.

Hosting this year’s event will be Maine storyteller, writer and radio host John McDonald. He will be joined by commercial fishermen and mariners cum poets and songwriters, including singer/songwriter/lobsterman Frank Gotwals from Stonington, as well as Jack Merrill from Little Cranberry Island, who also lobsters and serves on the Board of the Maine Lobstermen's Association. Also sharing her experiences and impressions of the sea will be well-known Maine poet Sarah Woolf-Wade.

Doors for the event open at 6 p.m. Admission is $12 for museum members, $15 for non-members. A cash bar will be open before and during the event, and dinner is available in the dining room downstairs, including DiMillo’s famous Early Dinner Special from 4-6 p.m.