Friday, April 24: Christie Max Williams

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 Featured Poet, Christie Max Williams

Christie Max Williams is a poet and actor. His debut poetry collection, The Wages of Love, won the William Meredith Poetry Prize and North Street Book Prize.  He also recently won the competition for and was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Stonington, Connecticut. His poetry has been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and has won the Grolier Prize and Connecticut River Review Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He co-founded and for many years directed The Arts Café Mystic, which is in its 34th year of presenting America’s best poets and New England’s finest musicians. He has worked as a leading actor on stage and screen in California, New York, and Connecticut. He also worked as a fruit vendor in Paris, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a consultant on Wall Street, a writer for the National Audubon Society, a wine grape harvester in Chateauneuf du Pape, and in leadership posts for non-profit organizations in whose causes he believes. Though originally from California and then New York City, he now lives in Mystic Connecticut, where he and his wife raised their daughter and son.