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.
Read MoreGreat to see MHR listed in Queer Places — We love to see Millay celebrated as a beacon for queer identity!
Read MoreJerri Dell recently posted this wonderful remembrance of our 2017 Millay Arts and Poetry Festival.
Dell writes, "In September 2017, I was invited to attend Millay Arts and Poetry Festival in Rockland, Maine as a member of an Authors’ panel, where I shared the stage with Holly and Krystyna, as well as Millay biographers Nancy Milford (Savage Beauty) and Daniel Mark Epstein (What Lips My Lips Have Kissed.)
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreROCKPORT — 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.
Read MoreAUGUSTA — The governor’s Blaine House was adorned Friday not just with holiday decorations but also with displays and items commemorating women in Maine history and the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the state.
Read MoreROCKLAND, Maine — The Millay Arts and Poetry Festival is returning to Rockland for a second year on Saturday, as renovations are still underway at the house on Broadway where Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.
Read MoreROCKLAND — 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.
Read MoreROCKLAND—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.
Read MoreROCKLAND— It’s been more than a year since Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote a story on the Millay House Rockland, a modest yellow double house at 198 Broadway titled, A peek inside the Rockland house where Edna St. Vincent Millay was born.
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.
Read MoreROCKLAND — 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.
Read MoreROCKLAND — Tickets are now on sale for the first Millay Arts & Poetry Festival, set for Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 7, 8 and 9, in various city locations.
Read MoreROCKLAND, Maine — When Edna St. Vincent Millay’s birth home was bought for preservation early last year, it was nearly condemned. Now, with a new nonprofit at the helm and renovations expected to be finished by the fall, the 19th-century duplex is slated to become home to a second branch of the Telling Room.
Read MorePoets and literary enthusiasts will gather for an afternoon of poetry and cake to celebrate the 125th birthday of famed local poet Edna St. Vincent Millay at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. The poetry gala — sponsored by the Farnsworth Art Museum, the University of Maine Humanities Center, and Millay House Rockland — will feature readings by 14 poets, including Gary Lawless, Carl Little, Dave Morrison, Kristen Linquist and Maine Poet Laureate Stuart Kestenbaum, among others. The celebration comes with the launch of Millay House Rockland, a new organization dedicated to promoting poetry and literature in the region.
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