Eavan Boland Reads the Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Prominent feminist poet Eavan Boland reads works by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and discusses their meaning and historical context at a special reading.
Irish by birth, Eavan Boland published her first collection-1962's 23 Poems-when she was just 18. Boland's early work is informed by her experiences as a young wife and mother, and her growing awareness of the troubled role of women in Ireland's history and culture, an influence that contributed to her emergence as one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. Best known for subverting traditional constructions of womanhood and offering fresh perspectives on Irish history and mythology, she has earned international recognition over the course of seven published volumes of poetry, traveling the U.S. and Ireland as a poet, anthologist, and teaching scholar.