Join local actor Stephen Collins for " A Lovely Light", a lecture/performance about the life and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, she spent her last years at Steepletop, her farm in Austerlitz, N.Y. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 when she was thirty-one years old. A fierce advocate for women's rights and social justice, she marched down Boylston Street in Boston to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti verdicts. Through the 1950s and 1960s, she was dismissed as a sappy, sentimental love poet. Starting in the mid-1970s, Feminist scholars have brought her work back to the forefront where it belongs. She wrote her masterpiece, " Renascence " when she was seventeen years old. Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty-plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching. Recently, he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations throughout the country. Learn more about Stephen at www.unlaunchedvoices.com and www.newmuseproductions.com. This program is made possible by the generous support of the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library, a patron-supported non-profit organization.