Poet Kathleen Ellis hosts a poetry reading, Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m., at the Rockland Public Library. Participants from this summer's annual poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum will read their poems responding to the museum's exhibits and exploring diverse poetic styles. Those poets are François Amar, Sara Eastler, Ellen Goldsmith, Eileen Hugo, Lenora Jackson, Mark Raymond, and Ellen Sander.

Ellis is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Body of Evidence. In addition to the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod and the Southwest Review poetry prize, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Arts Commission. Poems from her manuscript, Dear Darwin, were set to music and released as a Parma Recordings CD, nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award. Ellis teaches creative writing at the University of Maine and coordinates POETS/SPEAK! at the Bangor Public Library. She leads the annual August poetry workshop at the Farnsworth Art Museum. 

This event is free and open to the public.

The Rockland Public Library is located at 80 Union Street.

For more information, email Patricia King at pking@rocklandmaine.gov or contact the Library at 594-0310.