#ednastvincentmillay

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Millay Colony for the Arts

This is where the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived; the place now serves as an artist residency. At the time it was known as Millay Colony for the Arts, now it is simply Millay Arts.

I made this image while there for a few weeks way back in the summer of 2001. I believe I used a four by five inch large format camera with color Polaroid which I scanned (also a long time ago).

One image by Richard Koenig.

[nicks-lunchbox-service]

9.21.20 Lunchtime drawing: The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived here in Manhattan’s narrowest house, only 9 ½ feet wide, at 75 ½ Bedford Street in the West Village. I’ve sketched it a number of times over the course of the 7 years of this drawing a day project, but I think I this is the first time using watercolor.

[hi-de-away]

after all these years, im still affected by your love

[voidscreamingformillenials]

I wasn't going to buy any books tonight, but then I came across this 1922 edition of A Few Figs From Thistles while shopping for pens. #poetry #ednastvincentmillay #bookstagram #bookporn #shoplocal #usedbooks #orcabooks #bookoholic

[lgbt-history-archive]

“My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—it gives a lovely light!” – “First Fig,” Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1918. . Picture: Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950), New York City, c. 1935. c/o The Millay Society. . Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was born one hundred and twenty-five years ago today, was a bisexual American poet and playwright; in addition to receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 (the third woman to win the poetry award), she also was known for her pioneering proto-feminist voice. . After graduating from Vassar College in 1917, Millay moved to Greenwich Village, where she earned a name for herself as a poet and as a co-founder of the Cherry Lane Theater (established “to continue the staging of experimental drama”). . In 1920, a collection of Millay’s poetry, “A Few Figs From Thistles,” caused controversy for, as Sarah Parker explained, the “frank expression of subjects previously thought unsuitable for women writers, such as free love, promiscuity, active female sexual desire, and the pleasures of roaming the city.” In 1923, Millay continued to break ground with “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver,” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. . Millay married activist icon Eugen Jan Boissevain (widower of suffrage pioneer Inez Milholland) in 1923 and, although (or perhaps because) both had other lovers throughout the marriage, they shared a happy partnership until Boissevain’s death in 1949. . During the first World War, Millay was an outspoken pacifist, though she was a vocal supporter of the Allied Forces in World War II; her apparent enthusiasm for the latter war effort earned her considerable criticism within poetry circles. . Edna St. Vincent Millay died from a heart attack after falling down a flight of stairs at her home on October 19, 1950; she was fifty-eight. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #EdnaStVincentMillay (at Washington Square Park)

[nicks-lunchbox-service]

12.31.18 Lunchtime drawing: Wow the last "Nick's Lunchbox Service" daily drawing of 2018! That’s 5 years without missing a day—thanks for tuning in! It always seems to rain when I draw Edna St. Vincent Millay’s house at 75 1/2 Bedford Street in the West Village (the narrowest residence in Manhattan!) She wrote the line, “my candle burns at both ends,” and win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.

[universalzone]

Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay Scarf, Literary Shawl, Book Lover's Gift, Poetry Scarf, Cozy Beige Wrap, Bookworm Gift.

[universalzone]

Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay Scarf, Literary Shawl, Book Lover's Gift, Poetry Scarf, Cozy Beige Wrap, Bookworm Gift.