Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

Volcano: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tess Chakkalakal and Brock Clarke have released a new episode of their Dead Writers Podcast featuring the Millay House Rockland. Find out more and listen here: https://www.mainepublic.org/volcano-edna-st-vincent-millay.

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Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

Millay House Rockland announces month-long writing residency opportunity

ROCKLAND — Millay House Rockland, in partnership with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, will offer a one-month, juried residency in October 2024. The competitive application is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, or journalism; the residency offers comfortable accommodations in the house where Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.

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Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

Poetry reading for Millay’s 128th birthday

On Sunday, Feb. 23, the Farnsworth Art Museum hosts a gala poetry reading in honor of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The event will mark the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s 128th birthday and will feature poets Laura Bonazzoli, Ellen Goldsmith, Annaliese Jakimides, Gary Lawless, Bria Lamonica, Kristen Lindquist, Carl Little, Thomas Moore, Jefferson Navicky, Lisa Panepinto and Ellen Taylor. Poet Kathleen Ellis of Orono will host the annual event. The celebration, which is free to the public, will take place beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Farnsworth’s auditorium.

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Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

High school library named for Millay

ROCKPORT — The Camden Hills Regional High School library has a new name that honors and brings attention to one of its accomplished graduates.

The school board voted unanimously to name the library the Edna St. Vincent Millay Library, according to English teacher Jennifer Munson.

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A day for Millay

ROCKLAND — The Millay Arts & Poetry Festival made a splashy debut last year as a multiple-day, celebrity-studded event that included the U.S. poet laureate and a world premiere drama with music. This year, the fest — produced by the nonprofit Millay House Rockland — is more low-key, but still offers an abundance of poetry riches.

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Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

A ‘Poetry Garden’ planned for The Millay House - PenBay Pilot

ROCKLAND—Behind the modest house on 198 Broadway, where famed poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, sits approximately a half acre of undeveloped land.  In a stand of poplar trees, with a stream running through it, the land is currently being evaluated to eventually turn into a Poetry Garden.

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Kathy Onofrio Kathy Onofrio

Rockland celebrates the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

ROCKLAND — Rockland celebrates one of its own with the Millay Arts and Poetry Festival, with readings, an original play and live music throughout downtown, all designed to offer insight into the life and circumstances of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Millay was born in Rockland in 1892.

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Tickets for Millay Fest Feature Events

ROCKLAND — The first Millay Arts & Poetry Festival is set for Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 7, 8 and 9, in various city locations. In addition to all-festival passes, tickets are now on sale for individual feature events.

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