| Healy, Elliott | Cover art | Vol. VI, 1 | Horse pulling | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Love Analysis | Vol. VI, 4 | Computer | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Love Analysis | Vol. VI, 4 | Couple | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Untitled | Vol. VI, 8 | Store front | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Untitled | Vol. VI, 9 | Store front | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Untitled | Vol. VI, 11 | Mannequins | Image of photo |
| Healy, Elliott | Untitled | Vol. VI, 11 | Rocking chair | Image of photo |
| Lamson, Charles | 1870 | Vol. VI, 15 | Young girl at Wood pile | Image of photo |
| Steingesser, Martin; Portland | Shoplifting Poetry | Vol. VI, 1 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Scribner, Douglas; Augusta | Poems for a Volunteer in a Nursing Home | Vol. VI, 1 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Honig, Lucy; Bar Harbor | Work in Progress; the first pages of a novel | Vol. VI, 2-3 | | Fiction--Short story |
| Lignell, Kathleen; Stockton Springs | Twice in Millinocket | Vol. VI, 3 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Brown, J.; Portland | On my lover having left me one month before my thirtieth birthday | Vol. VI, 4 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Lorusso, E.N.S.; Bangor | The Drums of Heaven | Vol. VI, 5 | | Fiction--Short story |
| Tagliabue, John; Lewiston | Invention; and it could have been the Aegean | Vol. VI, 5 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Shetterly, Susan Hand; Gouldsboro | This is no time | Vol. VI, 5 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Goodwin, Stewart | A Righteous Man | Vol. VI, 6-7 | | Fiction--Short story |
| Liscomb, Virginia; Gray | You Don't Know Me | Vol. VI, 7 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Chester, Roberta; Bangor | Reb Nachman (for Chaim) | Vol. VI, 7 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Coursen, Herb; Brunswick | 2 July, 1981: Road Back | Vol. VI, 7 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Clark, Gordon B.; Bristol | To Cuba (Fidel Castro) | Vol. VI, 8 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Evans, Ruth Webber; Portland | The Pope and The Slum of Vidigal (found in the Sunday Globe, July 26, 1981) | Vol. VI, 8 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Wickes, Margaret; Oakland | Depression Glass | Vol. VI, 9 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Dubie, William; Peabody, MA | Barker | Vol. VI, 9 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Adams, David; North Jay | Laundromat | Vol. VI, 9 | | Fiction--Narrative |
| Dane, Joseph A.; South Harpswell | Scholion: A Contemporary Epic | Vol. VI, 10 | | Fiction--Prose |
| Stewart, Maggie; Augusta | The Beast | Vol. VI, 11 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Plunkett, Terry; Northport | One Hand Clapping | Vol. VI, 11 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| McGuire, Robert; Newcastle | Parkscape | Vol. VI, 11 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Unknown | Prints and the Pauper | Vol. VI, 12 | | Fiction--Short story |
| Flynn, Patrick; Rockwood/Salem, MA | In Defense of Marshall "Dodge-ism" (For F.G.) | Vol. VI, 13 | | Non-fiction--Criticism |
| Sewell, Richard; Waterville | On the Granite Crest | Vol. VI, 13 | | Poetry--Stanza |
| Day, Terrence; Waterville | To Eat an Icon | Vol. VI, 14 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Merriam, Kendall; Richmond | The Fooling of Ralphie Post | Vol. VI, 14 | | Fiction--Short story |
| Meade, Mary Ann; Lewiston | X-ray Room | Vol. VI, 14 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Morgan, Patricia; Rockland | Recipe | Vol. VI, 14 | | Poetry--Projective verse |
| Walsh, Maureen; Bangor | Edward Hopper | Vol. VI, 14 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Wormser, Baron; Mercer | Cord of Birch | Vol. VI, 15 | | Poetry--Heroic Couplet |
| Fitzgerald, Brian; Presque Isle | Aroostook 13: Farmer in February | Vol. VI, 15 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Pieper, Louise; Scarborough | And Still the Moon Waxes | Vol. VI, 16 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Peterson, P.C.; Dryden | Styles | Vol. VI, 16 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Avery, Glenn; Trescott | It All Began With Ginni Wren | Vol. VI, 16 | | Poetry--Free verse |
| Aldridge, Richard; Sebasco Estates | Beyond My Own | Vol. VI, 16 | | Poetry--Quatrain |
| Editors | Kennebec: a portfolio of Maine writing Vol. VI, 1982 | Vol. VI, 16 | | Non-fiction--Editorial |
