Don’t miss this Vermont Humanities event
with PSOV member Linda Quinlan
Saturday, July 15th 11am – 2pm POSTPONED
Elmore State Park 856 VT Route 12 Lake Elmore, VT
Month: June 2023
Member News
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Continuing the Conversation
This past May, Mary Rose Daugherty, editor of The Mountain Troubadour, hosted an online conversation on Book Publishing with five panelists and other PSOV members who have continued that conversation by sharing thoughts and resources via email, and keeping a list on a shared Google document. We thought it would be beneficial to share that information; below is the most recent list of book publishing resources and articles, and here is a link to the book publishing conversation document.
Continue Reading Continuing the ConversationSummer Contests Reminder
This is the last week for members to submit to the Poetry Society of Vermont’s Summer Contests. Details available on the website and can be downloaded here, Summer Contests guidlines.
PSOV Summer Contests
Final Deadline: July 1, 2023 11:59pm
Summer Readings@the Front
PSOV members Scudder Parker and Robyn Joy at Summer Readings@The Front on June 15th. Upcoming readings July 13th and August 10th.
photo by Mary Rose Dougherty
Thunk of paddle rested on gunnels
small ripples soundless to our ears
we sit beside our ordinary lives
stopped
feel the silence of our absence
our memories already gathered
to a larger memory we drift two loons
dive for bass in branches of a toppled
yellow birch as if they’ve always been here.
from Osmore Pond by Scudder Parker
published in The Mountain Troubadour 2021
A Celebration of Queer Poetry
Justice – And Poetry – for All:
Friday, July 28 – 6:00 pm
Featuring James Crews
with
Beck Anson
Tatiana Bruno
Harmony Edosomwan
Holly Painter
Karma Bird House
47 Maple St.
Burlington
The Poetry Society of Vermont is pleased to co-sponsor this Sundog Poetry event.
Buffy Aakaash
Buffy Aakaash’s chapbook, “Untangling the Knots” was published by Kelsay Books in 2022 and nominated for the Vermont Book Award.
This 20-poem chapbook arose out of the previously published poem, “How to Untangle a Knot.” It was birthed in the lonely isolation of a pandemic in the winter of 2020.
~buffyaakaashpoetry
Continue Reading Buffy AakaashIn Buffy Aakaash’s Untangling the Knots, we learn such essential skills as “How to Start a Fire,” “How to Undress,” and even “How to Pet a Cat.” But we are given surprise after surprise, as we discover vivid metaphors for deeper life lessons. Even though the title promises untangling, the “necessary fettered entanglement” of love, desire and authentic living is what this collection celebrates. And it does so with heart, honesty, and imagination, the stuff of life and poetry...
~Maxima Kahn, author of Fierce Aria, teacher, and firekeeper
We Stand with Toussaint
The Poetry Society of Vermont is saddened by this frightening harassment. Toussaint St. Negritude is a valued and beloved part of the Vermont arts community. Public poetry events at libraries are integral to our communities. Unfortunately harassment of the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities has become far too common.