A 5-Week Poetry Workshop
Thursdays: April 3rd - May 1st, 4:30 - 7:30 PM
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a firebrand poet. Brilliant, complicated, and beloved, she was born in Rockland in 1892. Grounding ourselves in selections of Millay’s poetry, and drawing from biographical information, letters, and archival materials from the Maine Women Writers Collection, we will immerse ourselves in the world of Millay in an effort to find the ways in which Millay speaks to our own inspirations.
Participants of all avenues and experience levels welcome – poets and nonpoets; fiction and nonfiction writers; Millay enthusiasts, the casually curious, and those interested in the alchemical process of turning literary research into creative output.
The class will include a tour of Millay’s birthplace in Rockland, home of Millay House Rockland, as well as a visit to the Camden Public Library’s Millay collection. Participants will work to write their own multi-discipline responses to Millay. Instructor feedback following each class, and one all-class workshop. Limit 10-12 participants.
*4/3, 4/10, and 5/1 classes @ Rockland Public Library. 4/17@ Camden Public Library & their Millay Collection. 4/24 @ Millay House in Rockland.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Jefferson Navicky is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands, a finalist for The Big Other Book Award in Fiction, as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose, which won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry. He works as the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection and lives in rural midcoast Maine.
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