Please join Millay House Rockland at the Rockland Public Library for a poetry reading with acclaimed poet and AIDS activist Robert Carr.

In 1984, Robert moved to Boston, volunteered with the AIDS Action Committee, and became the first HIV testing counselor with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In response to the HIV pandemic, Robert engaged in a 33-year career in public health and recently retired from the position of Deputy Director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences in Massachusetts.

Robert is the author of three poetry collections, and his work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Lana Turner, Maine Review, Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Shenandoah, and other publications. He is a 2022 Monson Arts resident; co-editor for the 2019 Ghana Literary Group anthology, Bodies and Scars; and an active member of Writing the Land, an initiative pairing poets and land trusts in order to promote preservation.

Co-sponsored by Millay House Rockland, Maine Humanities Council, Maine Women Writers Collection, and OUT Maine.