This reading is open to the public and will take place in the library’s community room and online via Zoom. Email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov with the subject line “Robert Carr” for Zoom links.

About the poet:

Acclaimed poet and AIDS activist Robert Carr is the author of five poetry collections, and his work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, Lana Turner, and other publications. He is the 2024 Tuscany writer-in-residence with SPOKE, a Boston-based arts advocacy organization.

Natalie Goldberg, best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones, will be giving a reading at the Farnsworth Art Museum in the auditorium.

This event is free. (Admission to the museum after the reading requires an entrance fee.)

This reading is brought to you in partnership with the Farnsworth.

***Sorry, registrations are full for today's in-person reading at the Farnsworth. You can sign up to hear Natalie read on Zoom on The Poets Corner on Thursday, August 15 at 7:00 p.m. by registering at www.thepoetscorner.org/events.***

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.

—New Date—

This reading is open to the public and will take place in the library’s community room and via Zoom. Email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov for Zoom links.

Opening for Arisa are three of Maine’s Poetry Out Loud 2024 state finalists: Charlotte Schatz of Maine Coast Waldorf School, Angelo Giordano of Portland High School, and state runner-up Willow Knowles of Kennebunk High School.

Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College; her poetry is widely published. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing.