Poetry Society of Vermont

Poetry Society of Vermont

“Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Poetry Society of Vermont welcomes new members, both writers and appreciative readers.
Founded in 1947, PSOV is an association of poets and supporters who join in promoting an interest in poetry through meetings, workshops, readings, contests, and contributions to the society's journal, The Mountain Troubadour, which has been published since at least 1956. Anyone may join the society including high school and college students and non-residents of Vermont.

It's Time to Renew Your Membership in PSOV

To join the Poetry Society of Vermont, or to renew, mail dues of $25 ($10 for students) to:

Sally Anne Reisner

Box 1215,

Waitsfield, VT 05673

If joining for the first time, please include your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email. Membership renewals are due by January 1. A membership list is available for members by contacting Sally: sallyreisner@madriver.com

Advantages of membership include participation in readings and workshops, opportunities to have poems published in the society's journal, The Mountain Troubadour, competition for awards, and fellowship with appreciative readers and writers of poetry. Members receive a copy of The Mountain Troubadour annually. Members may request copies of the minutes and treasurer's report.

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NATIONAL CONTEST NOW OPEN TO ALL

$1,000 prize will be given annually for the winning poem. Winner and four runners up published in Mountain Troubadour. You do not need to be a member to enter. Submit three poems, maximum 40 lines each, unpublished, with $15 entry fee by February 1, 2019. Contest judge is Baron Wormser, past Poet Laureate of Maine.

You’ll need your credit card for payment.

Please have your three poems ready in one Word (.doc or .docx) document, with no names on the poems.

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Check Out Whale Road Review; it's a beautiful online journal.

PSOV Archives at the Vermont History Center

Barre, Vermont

www.vermonthistory.org

Poetry Society of Vermont

Records, 1947-

Doc 548-549, 582-583, MSA 405-406

Introduction

This collection contains the records of the Poetry Society of Vermont, a statewide organization that promotes public awareness of poetry. The collection was given to the Vermont Historical Society in December 2005 by the creating organization (ms. acc. no. 2005.10). It is stored in 4 document storage boxes and two flip-top archival boxes; it consumes 5 linear feet of shelf space.

Judith Janoo has a new chapbook from Finishing Line Press

https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/after-effects-by-judith-janoo/

“Judith Janoo brings the reader from despair, caused by war, into the hope for peace. The poet engages the reader with the warrior and those around him with poetic empathy and visual reality. ‘….the suffering of gentle/man made infantry man…’ in her poem ‘I Am From,’ leads us generations forward to a peace march, where a granddaughter reminds us in the final words of the final poem, ….it isn’t dangerous/to walk only to not say a word.’ Take the journey from war to the quest for peace in this elegant collection.”

—Dianalee Velie, Poet, and author of five collections, most recently, Ever After.

BOOK k LEAF

Bookstore and Tea Shop

Writers

Read

Series

presents

Adventures

fact

and

fantasy

Kathleen

McKinley

Harris

and

Ray

Hudson

OPEN

MIC

for

all

writers

Thursday,

October

18,

2018

-‐

6:00

Kathleen McKinley Harris Ray Hudson

Kathleen McKinley Harris and Ray Hudson are two longtime friends who

have both published new books in 2018. Harris is a poet who celebrates the

pastoral Vermont of yesteryear. Earth Striders chronicles the evolution of a

young girl, whose love of horses and nature defines her life as she moves into

adulthood. Fear, love, tragedy and humor are interwoven in these living,

breathing poems that transcend time. In Ivory and Paper, Hudson’s

protagonist, Booker, a 13 year old from a Vermont farm enters the magical

world of the Aleutian Islands when he meets Anna, who is on a quest to return

an ancestral amulet. The spell-binding relic involves the new friends in a world

of myth and mystery.

All Writers are encouraged to share a brief piece of writing (5 min. max) at the Open Mic.

Come and enjoy this celebration of writing, book signings, conversation, and of course,

complimentary tea, coffee and sweets!

Book

Leaf

Park

Street

Brandon,

802-‐465-‐8424