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Millay House Poetry Reading | Mark Doty + Bruce Willard

July 23 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

Tuesday, July 23 | 5-7pm | Free + in-person

READING 5:00-6:30pm | RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING 6:30-7:00pm

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, and you can register here via the Millay House organization’s website — it helps us to know how many people to expect!


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.

Details

Date:
July 23
Time:
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
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Website:
https://millayhouserockland.org/events

Venue

CMCA | Courtyard
21 Winter Street
Rockland, ME 04841
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Phone:
2077015005

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