Millay Colony at AWP!

 

We will be sharing a table with Belladonna* Collaborative and Stonecutter Journal at the bookfair. Stop on by!

 

Also, while in town....a Millay Colony get-together:

Thursday, March 7, 2013; 5 to 7 pm

Join us for some friendliness in the literary maelstrom!

 

Alums, fans, future residents, all are welcome. We will gather at 29 Newbury, a Restaurant, bar, and gallery just blocks from the convention center.

 

29 Newbury St.

Boston, MA

617-536-0290

www.29newbury.com

 

Congrats to Millay Alum Amy Brill!

Amy Brill was a resident with us in 2004 (and one of the very first Winter Shakers, too!). The novel she was working on back then, now called The Movement of Stars, will be published by Riverhead Books on April 18, 2013!

 

 

"In spare yet luminous prose, Brill shows Hannah achieving emotional and spiritual growth to match her intellectual gifts…Probing yet accessible, beautifully written and richly characterized: fine work from a writer to watch.” —Kirkus, starred review

http://www.amybrill.com

From Amy:

"It's hard to believe that nine years have gone by since I first sat in the Millay Colony barn, gazing out the window at the single, beautifully twisted tree outside, and pondering the fate of the protagonist in my novel, The Movement of Stars. In the years since, I've seen that tree in every season: blooming in summertime during my first residency, when I still thought I was writing an epistolary novel hewing closely to the true life-story of the first professional female astronomer in America (I wasn't); still and snow-covered in winter, when I was one of the first "Shakers" and spent some of time painting said barn and the remainder trying to tell the story I wanted to tell (not epistolary, and not "about" Maria Mitchell, after all). I saw the tree in autumn, when I returned to visit then-director Drake Patten one weekend with a fellow former resident. And I saw it in the spring, on a road trip with my now-husband, to whom I wished to point out the special and beautiful place that so inspired me. It was at Millay that I had the time and breathing room to lie under the wide night sky, memorizing the constellations; it was there I met an artist who gave me wisdom I never forgot: "How do I feel about my work?" he mused one day over dinner. "Who cares? It's my work. How I feel about it isn't that important." In so many ways, my time at Millay was fundamental to both my novel and myself: the Colony shaped both, indelibly, and I'll forever be grateful."

 

Planning an event or retreat?

The Millay Colony for the Arts is available to rent for retreats, parties, think-tanks, weddings, and many other group gatherings. During the Residency Season (April - November), we have inter-residency breaks of three to six days each month. After the Residency season (December - March), we have several week-long periods open.

Our spectacular campus in the Berkshires is located on the former property of legendary poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Bordering Harvey Mountain State Forest, The Millay Colony is nestled on seven acres of meadows and wooded land and offers stunning views, lush fields, and historic walking trails.

Our facility can board groups up to fourteen, with seven double beds, and we can arrange further lodging with discounts at nearby locations for events with larger numbers. The Colony has hosted parties of up to 300 and has also been an intimate home for retreats of creative collaborative groups of four members.

Whether it is a pastoral retreat, think-tank, party, or working vacation, our dazzling Upstate New York location is an idyllic location.

http://www.millaycolony.org/rental

Millay Colony Fall Reading at Poets House, NYC




Join us for a reading featuring new work and bon mots from esteemed and bedazzling poets Anthony Madrid, Michael Robbins and Susan Wheeler. Then walk up the curvacious stairway at Poets House to sample autumnal wines, eat some delicious snacks and talk the evening while watching the moon rise over the Hudson River.

ADMISSION IS FREE. JOIN US!!

Wednesday, October 24

7:30 pm

Poets House

10 River Terrace

NY, NY 10282

ANTHONY MADRID lives in Chicago. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS. His first book is called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012). 

MICHAEL ROBBINS is the author of Alien vs. Predator (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He reviews books regularly for the London Review of Books, Poetry, The New York Observer, the Chicago Tribune, and several other publications. He received his PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

SUSAN WHEELER is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Meme from the University of Iowa Press, and a novel, Record Palace, published by Graywolf Press. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University and lives in the New York area.



Deadline for Applications: October 1!

Each year Millay Colony invites 52 visual artists, writers and composers for a colony residency. Residents are chosen anonymously by a panel of jurors in each discipline. The application process is competitive and based solely on on the merit of the artist statement and work sample. Past jurors and their bios can be viewed on our Juries page. An article on the jury process can also be found in our Spring 2008 newsletter.

The Millay Colony for the Arts is pleased to announce that, starting this year, we are adding three new offerings to our roster of artist residencies on its pastoral upstate New York/Berkshire area campus. While continuing to offer month-long residencies to visual artists, writers and composers, the Millay Colony is now offering three new ways to spend time as a resident: Two-week Residencies in the month of September, Virtual Residencies and Group Residencies.

The Millay Colony accepts residents on the basis of artistic merit. Our admissions policy does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, sexual preference, religion, marital status, disability or nation of origin.

http://www.millaycolony.org/apply

Millay Alum Mauro Zamora's New Show

Parallax View
PLM associates
September 7 – 30, 2012
Vox Populi Gallery
319 North 11th Street

Gallery Talk:
Sunday, September 16th, 3pm with Paddy Johnson, Artfagcity

Special Performance September 23rd, 2pm:
by Ina Polis, PLMA's Davenport Predator Material Transfer
Agreement/Discussion with Mary Ebeling, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University 

Working in a multidisciplinary practice that includes graphic design, drawing, video, and installation, artists Anita Allyn & Mauro Zamora probe the dark side of international business practices. Posing as PLM Associates, Allyn & Zamora’s fictional private contracting firm provides end-capital solutions for wealthy individuals, multinational corporations and governments. PLM Associates helps clients assert their dominance in the market while taking advantage of the current political climate.

For their first exhibition Allyn and Zamora offer the boardroom as a loci of abstraction, where campaigns, schemes, meetings and covert planning take place. PLM associates' boardroom serves as a defunct stage where the visuality of corporate rhetoric plays out in secret. Through this project Allyn & Zamora reflect corporate rhetoric and values to call attention to the impermeable facade of the capitalist structure while highlighting a rupture of capitalism itself.

Workshop Wrap-Up

Today is the last day of the Workshop Retreat with Tracie Morris, Generating Sound in Poetry. What an extraordinary time it has been. Smart, sweet, relaxed, illuminating, magnificent. Thank you to Tracie for bring her effervescent, patient and brilliant teaching to our humble campus...

Tracie began the class with body work and breathing techniques and guided everyone skillfully through a range of poetics and performance modalities, sound poems, song and more...it was an amazing class. Our thanks to Tracie and all the participants for transforming our space with their voices, their ideas, their hard work and brilliant performances.

We had some delicious walks and great (blue) moon watching...

And gracious thanks to Chef Donna for amazing vegan meals and fresh fruit and vegetables. The gardens overfloweth...

With xoxox to all. Come back soon...