Rockland Public Library Millay at Steepletop‏

Rockland, Maine - On Thursday April 18 at 6:30 PM -- as part of our Poetry Month Rockland Celebration -- there will be a Screening and Discussion of the film: Millay at Steepletop        
Post-Screening Discussion with Millay Scholar Mary Pilote

Millay at Steepletop is a loving tribute to the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, filmed entirely at her 700-arce upstate New York farm. By combining images of the natural beauty of the poet’s home with readings from her most famous poems, interviews with her sister Norma Millay Ellis, and exclusive archival footage, Millay at Steepletop captures the brilliance and passion of Millay’s life and art. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Beautiful, vivacious, sexually liberated and supremely talented, Millay was the feminine ideal of the Jazz Age.   Her quatrain “My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light!” became a hymn of her generation.

Special accommodations for persons with disabilities can be made with 48 hours notice. Please call the Library at 594-0310.

This evening is one in a continuing Thursday evening series of literary, film and musical offerings sponsored by the Rockland Public Library & The Friends of the Rockland Public Library. Admission is free.

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