My sixth poetry collection, “Beastie” Poems has just been published. It focuses on the wonder of animate species around us and how we are driving them and ourselves to extinction. A good gift for all ages!
Judith Janoo, author and member of the PSOV Editorial Board, will be reading from her most recent publication, Just This(Kelsay Books, 2023) on Tuesday, December 5th, 6:30-7:30pm at the Abbott Memorial Library in South Pomfrett, Vermont.
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PSOV member, Amy Allen of Shelburne, VT is thrilled to announce her debut poetry chapbook, Mountain Offerings, releasing from Rootstock Publishing on April 2, 2024. Through interactions with and the examination of the natural world, poems in Mountain Offerings move from a youthful voice to a more experienced one, showing a coming-of-age in partnership, parenthood, loss, and the development of independence and self-awareness. The simplicity, beauty, and peace of the outdoors provides an ideal vehicle through which this poet explores complex human emotions.
Don’t miss Poetry Society of Vermont members, Karen Morris and George Longenecker reading at The Front, 6 Barre St, Montpelier, VT, on December 14th at 6:30-8:00pm.
Our featured readers are Karen Morris and George Longenecker! I am excited to report that these two poets will be thematically reading poems back and forth in a sweet lilting dance for us to enjoy.
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Imagine a monument to the Unknown Daughter as an actual architectural place and destination. Imagine the voices of caretakers, fundraisers, visitors, gardeners at the nearby rose garden, Uber drivers delivering people to the monument, neighbors, high school students who compete in essay contests to make the unknown Known, the daughter and her family. They have much to say about women who are unknown despite the amazing things they have accomplished or unknown for other reasons. The book is dedicated to those unknowns and to my brother.
Tricia Knoll’s The Unknown Daughterdedicates itself to the incredible work of Making Known: of naming and describing the complex experience of being a daughter, of asking who we might be as a culture and a country if we took it upon ourselves to honestly do so. Knoll’s book is a beautiful, taut series of linked poems filled with myriad voices, each a pebble dropped into the silencing waters of family and history, each helping to recover not just one daughter, but all.
Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s.)You can order copies of Tricia’s book during the pre-sale for $15.99 until January 5, her book will be shipped on March 1, 2024.Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.)
Cabbie: New York City 1971,1972 True Tales by N.G. Haiduck
Poetry Society of Vermont member, Nancy Haiduck’s first book: Cabbie: New York City 1971,1972 True Tales is a collection of stories about driving a cab in the early 70s when she was young and new to New York City.
