An Evening of Poety with Christie Max Williams

RESCHEDULED FROM OCTOBER 12, 2025

Celebrate the power of poetry with Christie Max Williams, Stonington’s first Poet Laureate and award-winning author of The Wages of Love. Enjoy an evening of heartfelt readings, featuring both new and favorite poems.

Christie Max Williams was recently appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Town of Stonington. His debut poetry collection, The Wages of Love, won the 2022 William Meredith Poetry Prize. He is also a writer and award-winning actor. 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. He has worked as an actor and director 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. He co-founded and for many years directed The Arts Café Mystic, which is in its 31st year of presenting readings by America’s best poets, complemented by music of New England’s finest musicians. His poetry has been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and has won the Grolier Prize and Connecticut River Review Prize