ROCKLAND — The Millay House Rockland Writer-in-Residence Reading Series continues with Natalie Goldberg, Zen teacher of writing as practice and best-selling author of Writing Down the Bones, Monday, Aug. 5, at 12 noon, at the Farnsworth Art Museum Auditorium, 16 Museum Street, Rockland, Maine.

Goldberg will share insights from her new book, Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice (available at the Farnsworth Art Museum gift shop). An inspiring personal account of “the struggles of the creative mind,” 

Writing on Empty is a guidebook for our journey to fill the world with compassion, healing, and spiritual renewal,” said a news release.

The Millay House Rockland is honored to welcome Natalie Goldberg as part of its mission to foster creative revitalization through its inaugural Writer-in-Residency program at the renovated birthplace of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Goldberg’s residency in Rockland renews the story of Millay’s physical birthplace as a living part of Maine’s and the nation’s creative community. Goldberg’s reading and book-signing event is sponsored in partnership with the Farnsworth Art Museum.

Reserve your seat through the website www.millayhouserockland.org. Space is limited. 

About Natalie Goldberg:

Poet, teacher, writer, and painter, Goldberg is a trained practitioner of Zen Buddhism who teaches writing workshops across the nation based on the methods presented in her acclaimed 1986 best-seller, Writing Down the Bones. Her other books include Wild Mind; Long Quiet Highway; Banana Rose; and Three Simple Lines.

About Millay House Rockland:

Millay House Rockland is a nonprofit organization that champions poets, creators and practitioners of all the arts. Celebrating the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and the rich cultural heritage of midcoast Maine, Millay House Rockland is honored to advance its continuing mission to be an incubator of the arts that began nearly a decade ago with the rejuvenation of Millay’s birthplace at 198 Broadway in Rockland, Maine.

For more information on Millay House Rockland, visit https://millayhouserockland.org/about