Winter Reading: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Theatre Department explores the American poet and playwright
Edna
St. Vincent Millay, the American poet and playwright, will be the focus
of the Winter Reading presented by The Ohio State University at
Newark’s Theatre Department.
The reading will take place on Thursday, January 17 at 7:30 pm in the Founders Hall Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
Millay (b. February 1892; d. October 1950) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923; she was the first woman to receive the honor. In 1943 she was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. She was the sixth recipient and the second woman to receive that honor.
Her poetry includes “First Fig,” “Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare,” “Renascence,” and “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.”
Millay authored five dramas, including “Two Slatterns and a King,” The Lamp and the Bell,” “The King’s Henchmen,” and a one-act play, “Aria da Capo.”
Founders Hall is located at 1179 University Drive on the Ohio State Newark campus.
For more information, call Dave Williams, associate professor, theatre department, at 740.366.9474.