Mark Doty, distinguished poet and essayist, will open the Writers-in-Residence program at the Millay House Rockland with a public reading alongside Maine poet Bruce Willard. This event is free.
***Registration is now closed and all seats have been reserved at this time. We will have a waiting list available at the event to fill any seats left by those who registered but could not make it. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee entry for those who did not register.***
READING 5:00-6:30
RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING 6:30-7:00
About the poets:
Hailed as one of the most accomplished poets in American Poetry, Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane, Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK. He is also the author of four memoirs: the New York Times-bestselling What Is the Grass, Dog Years, Firebird, and Heaven’s Coast, as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World Into Word. Doty has received two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize.
Bruce Willard lives in Maine and Colorado and has published three collections of poems: Holding Ground, Violent Blues, and In Light of Stars—all published by Four Way Books (NYC). In Light of Stars received an Indie Book Award Prize for Poetry in 2022. In addition to his work as a poet, Willard directs the Blue Raven Poetry Series in Rockland, Maine.