Put a Face on Your Poetry: Writing Portrait Poems

This workshop will focus our attention on writing what is not so obvious to the naked eye in pictures of people, places, and (yes!!) things. Bring writing materials, and if you like, a family photo (preferably black & white). Photos will be provided if you do not have one of your own available.

This is an in-person class that will be held at Millay House Rockland.

This workshop is FREE to members of Millay House Rockland.

If you’re not a member, you can register for $50 and your purchase will include a membership.

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Carol Willette Bachofner served as Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine from 2012 -2016. She was the winner of the Maine Postmark Contest in 2017. Bachofner’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Comstock Review, The Maine Review, The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry, and the following anthologies: Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Writings from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), Enough!(Littoral Books 2020) and Wait (Littoral Books 2021). Every Place I Look, Women With Embers at Their Feet, her eighth book, is forthcoming in fall 2025 from Main Street Rag.