Millay Prize for Poetry Readings Held September 30

In the spring of 2010, Rachel Perry was selected to receive the National Poetry Foundation's first annual Millay Prize for Poetry by the poet Ann Lauterbach.

On Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in the Soderberg Center Auditorium on the University of Maine's Orono campus, the two poets read together in a special event of the New Writing Series celebrating the Prize and recognizing the generosity of Frank T. and Helene Crohn, through whose generosity it has been established.

Rachel Perry grew up in Pittsgrove, New Jersey, and moved to Maine from Philadelphia in 2008 with her husband, Rob. She received a B.A. in English from Eastern University in Pennsylvania in 2002, and an M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Maine in May 2010.

The Frank and Helene Crohn Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize was established by the Crohns of Rhinebeck, N.Y. through a $300,000 gift to the University of Maine Foundation.