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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES |
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Alexander Rare Books
234 Camp Street
Barre, VT
(802) 476-0838
Bear Pond Books 77 Main St. Montpelier, VT
Book Cellar 120 Main St. Brattleboro, VT
Book Rack 21 Essex Way Ste. 106 Essex Junction, VT
Bulwagga Books & Gallery 3 S. Main Whiting, VT
Collected Works 29 High St. Brattleboro, VT
Everyone's Books 25 Elliot St # 2 Brattleboro, VT
Heartstone Bookstore 133 Main St. Putney, VT
The Kept Writer 5 Lake St. St. Albans, VT
Northshire Bookstore 4869 Main St. Manchester Center, VT
Village Square Booksellers 32 The Square Bellow Falls, VT |
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Poet Laureate |
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Grace Paley
More information on this state's laureateship
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Poets |
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Hayden Carruth
Many of Hayden Carruth's best known poems are about the people and places of Northern Vermont, where he lived for many years. Among other awards he's received the National Book Award and the Ruth Lilly Prize.
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Ellen Bryant Voigt
The author of several collections of poetry, including Shadows of Heaven, a finalist for the National Book Award, Ellen Bryant Voigt lives in Cabot, Vermont. She served as the Vermont State Poet for four years.
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Jay Wright
The author of several collections of poetry, and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and Yale University's Bollingen Prize, Jay Wright lives in Bradford, Vermont. |
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Other Vermont Poets
David Budbill
Wyn Cooper
Norman Dubie
Jody Gladding
Robert Frost
David Hinton
David Huddle
Galway Kinnell
Robert Pack
F.D. Reeve
Stephen Sandy
Ruth Stone
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Readings series, conferences, & literary festivals |
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Brattleboro Literary Festival
An annual three-day celebration of those who read books, those who write books, and of the books themselves. Located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, the Festival includes readings, panel discussions, and special events, featuring emerging and established authors. All events are free.
Bread Loaf Writers Conference
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is one of America's oldest literary institutions. For more than 75 years, workshops, lectures, and classes have been held in the summer, providing a stimulating community in which participants can test assumptions regarding literature and seek advice about their progress as writers. Faculty members conduct small workshops, give lectures on writerly issues, and offer classes on specific aspects of craft. Readings by faculty, guests, and contributors are scheduled throughout the day and into the night.
Village Square Booksellers/River Voices Poetry Reading Series
This series, featuring southeastern Vermont and New Hampshire poets, has been running for over two years.
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Poetic History |
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The Graves of Poets
When he died in 1963, Robert Frost was buried in Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. |
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Visitors from Vermont Enjoy ... |
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Most Popular Poems
1. Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night...
2. We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks We real cool. We...
3. The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop From narrow provinces...
4. Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich First having read the book of myths...
5. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
6. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn't hard to master...
7. Her Kind by Anne Sexton I have gone out, a possessed witch...
8. September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden I sit in one of the dives...
9. The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes I've known rivers...
10. The White House by Claude McKay Your door is shut against my tightened face...
(Popularity based on Poets.org traffic data.)
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Poems about Vermont |
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The Cows at Night
by Hayden Carruth
The moon was like a full cup tonight... |
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Literary journals & small presses |
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Chapiteau Press
Chapiteau Press was founded to present sequences of poems in typographically beautiful settings; and in collaboration with performers, composers, and visual artists, to give audiences dynamic new experiences of poetry.
The Marlboro Review
The Marlboro Review was started to help emerging writers into print in the company of more established writers. The journal looks toward issues of science, philosophy, and culture from a writers sensibility.
New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly
NER strives to publish quality, innovative writing of all kinds, in all genres, including fiction, poetry, personal and critical essays, book reviews, interviews, reports from abroad and American Places, and more.
Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press, Inc., is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry and literary fiction by emerging and established writers. |
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Writing programs & colonies |
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Vermont Studio Center The Vermont Studio Center offers four-to-twelve-week studio residencies year-round to 600 painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, and writers (50 residents per month). VSC’s 30-building campus is set on the banks of the Gihon River in rural Johnson, Vermont, a town of 3,000 located in the heart of the northern Green Mountains. Each Studio Center residency features undistracted working time, the companionship of fifty artists and writers from across the country and around the world, and access to a roster of prominent Visiting Artists and Writers. All residencies include comfortable housing, private studio space, and excellent food. Two Visiting Writers per month are in residence for one week each to offer readings, a craft talk, and optional conferences with each of the 10-14 writers in residence each month. |
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