LAKEPORT – Lake County's new Poet Laureate Mary McMillan will hold her first event, a celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Irish writers and International Women's History Month, Sunday, March 16, at the Lake County Arts Council's Main Street Gallery.

The event will be from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Light refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.

McMillan said there will be readings of Irish prose and poetry, with an emphasis on work by Irish women.

She is being assisted by immediate past Poet Laureate Sandra Wade and Cherie Holden of Watershed Books.

The public is invited to bring favorite Irish poems to read, especially those by women, with a maximum length of about three minutes per reading.

There also will be a selection of poems available to read.

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