Put a Face on Your Poetry: Writing Portrait Poems

This is an in-person class that will be held at Millay House Rockland.

The class will be led by Carol Willette Bachofner who served as Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine from 2012 -2016. Bachofner’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Comstock Review, The Maine Review, The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry, and the following anthologies: Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Writings from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), Enough!(Littoral Books 2020) and Wait (Littoral Books 2021). Every Place I Look, Women With Embers at Their Feet, her eighth book, is forthcoming in fall 2025 from Main Street Rag.