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.
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.
Queer Places
Great to see MHR listed in Queer Places — We love to see Millay celebrated as a beacon for queer identity!
The Magic of Millay
Jerri 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.)
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.
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.
Governor’s Blaine House decorations commemorate women in Maine history
AUGUSTA — 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.
Maine poet’s birthplace is on its way to a new life as a literary center
ROCKLAND, 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.
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.
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.
Bit by bit, Millay House in Rockland is restored
ROCKLAND— 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 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.
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.
Millay Arts & Poetry Fest Tickets on Sale
ROCKLAND — 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.
Telling Room to occupy part of Rockland’s Millay House
ROCKLAND, 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.