The Poetry Society of Vermont, founded in 1947, is an association of poets and supporters who join in promoting an interest in poetry through workshops, readings, contests, and contributions to the society’s chapbook. Anyone may join the society, including high school and college students and non-residents of Vermont. We welcome both writers and appreciative readers.
MEMBERSHIP
Two ways to join:
1. Sign up and pay online at this link.
2. contact membership chair, Sally Anne Reisner. Mail dues of $25 ($10 for students) to P.O. Box 1215, Waitsfield, VT 05673. Please include your name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Membership must be renewed annually by January 1. A list of members is available upon request.
Advantages of membership include participation in readings and workshops, opportunities to have poems published in the society’s chapbook, The Mountain Troubadour, feedback and comments on submitted poems, competition for awards, and fellowship with many appreciative readers and writers of poetry. Members receive a copy of the society’s chapbook, The Mountain Troubadour, published annually.
Books by Our Members:
Alice Wolf Gilborn has a new book of
poems, Apples & Stones, from Kelsay Books, which was
released on August. Order from; www.kelsaybooks.com, Amazon, or the Northshire
Bookstore, www.northshire.com.
Jon Meyer’s book, Love
Poems From Vermont: reflections on an inner and outer
state, has won a number of national awards, including: Best Poetry
Book 2019/2020 Reader Views.
www.jonmeyerpoetry.com.
Marshall Witten has a
new book, My Mind’s Eye published by The
Poetry Box. You can and Order from:
https://thepoetrybox.com/the-poetry-box-live-sept-2020#comment-15667
Samantha
Kolber has a new book, Birth of a Daughter
which you can purchase at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, or order from them at:
https://www.bearpondbooks.com/book/9781952326363
Samantha was featured in the Times Argus and The Bridge.
William Thwing has a new
memoir: Restless Days: Haibun Memoir of a
Vietnam Veteran's Journey to Create a New Life While Recovering from PTSD, published by Shires Press in Manchester. It’s written in Japanese Haibun poetry.
https://www.northshire.com/book/9781605714844
$1,000 IN PRIZES AND
PUBLICATION
Carol Lee Vail Prize for Emerging Poets
The Mountain Troubadour 2021
Entrants must have no more than one published book.
Submit three poems with $15 entry fee
by January 15, 2021
For guidelines and details go to:
https://poetrysocietyofvermont.submittable.com/submit
Troubadour Reading Sunday
November 1 7:00 PM
Authors read from their poems in the 2020 Mountain Troubadour. It will be via Zoom, open to our members and
the public. If you have poems in the
2020 issue, and would like to read, please reply to me. We have room for 10
more readers; email me to read. Zoom
link will go out the week before.
Abenaki
Poetry Reading by Dan Close Thursday October 22 7:30 PM
Dan will read from his book What the Abenaki Say About Dogs and from
Dawnland Voices, an anthology of
indigenous writing from New England. Zoom link will go out the week before.
