poetry
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Poet’s corner: A few small stones
It was twilight all day./ Sometimes the smallest things weigh us down,/ small stones that we can’t help/ admiring and palming.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives talk in Middlebury
Middlebury College Axinn Center for the Humanities will present “The Weight of History” a poetry reading and talk by Tracy K. Smith on March 15, at 4:30 p.m.,…
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Poet’s corner: The fields of Ripton
A Poet, In a Field Near Robert Frost’s Cabin, Lifts Enormous Boulders with his Mind
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Poet’s Corner: A different kind of blue
All that is beautiful/ that slips away––/ a December night/ that before was November/ and September and before that,/ July when days were blue silver/ waves we swam…
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Poetry: The storm before Christmas
The storm before Christmas and all through the house/ No appliance was whirring, not even a mouse
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Poet’s corner: This talk of tanagers and trees
If I remember the lake yesterday, the tanager/ deep in the woods, it feels like a memory/ lost in a series of new ones, each singular event/ simply…
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Get ‘Entangled’ in poetry by local pediatrician
When Jack Mayer is walking alone on the Long Trail, he carries a small notebook — a place to jot down whatever comes to his mind.
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Poetry: Midterms
Here in Cornwall, my small town/ in Vermont, a precinct of deer/ and leaves, I like to think/ Of my neighbors who are likely/ to volunteer for anything.
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Hancock poet publishes her first collection
After her mother died in 2014, Margaret Rogal came across a small packet of notebooks and letters that her father, Robert Silliman Judd, wrote in 1909 when he…
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Poet’s corner: To follow the light on down
follow sun/ breaking through sky-edged mountains/ into the heart of a stone fruit
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Enjoy an evening of poetry with the Jacksons
The Rochester Public Library will host an evening of poetry with two special guests, Major Jackson and Didi Jackson, on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m.
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Sundog Poetry Book Award applications open
Until September 30, the Sundog Poetry Book Award is open to submissions from all Vermont-based poets who have not published more than one full-length collection.
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This month in poetry: To Raise a Simple Prayer
A saturated meadow,/ Sun-shaped and jewel-small,/ A circle scarcely wider/ Than the trees around were tall…
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Hinesburg poet drills into the burden of denial
Masquerading as a series of poems told from the perspective of residents in the fictional town of Sanctuary—some dating back as far as 450,000,000 B.C.E—the book’s concerns are…
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Poet’s Corner: Tapping, Tapping for Essence
Downy Woodpecker, a small guy,/ pecks at big wood./ A storm is brewing/ and I’m still half a mile from Minerva Hinchey.
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Poet to read new work in Brandon
On Friday, May 20, from 7-8:30 p.m., The Compass Music and Arts Center, Park Village in Brandon will present an evening with acclaimed poet Paul Christensen.