Many members of the Poetry Society of Vermont, are also members of small local poetry groups. PSOV is happy to share news and events of your local poetry group. Such as, PSOV member Wilma Ann Johnson who has shared an announcement from her group, the Scribble Sisters of their recent publication of Scratchings 7. The Scribble Sisters is a small, local writing group based in Bennington, Vermont. The group has published several volumes of their work, titled Scratchings.

I am in Bennington AAUW Scribble Sisters and we have recently published Scratchings 7 which contains poems and memoir prose by us and which is sold in our local bookstore.The Scholarship Fund for Non-Traditional Women Students is the beneficiary of all proceeds from this book and it predecessors.. ~ Wilma Ann Johnson

You can find Scratchings 7 on Amazon or at the Bennington Bookshop

Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s.) Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.)

We are happy to share the following message from fellow PSOV Member, Terry Lovelette author of Thoughts From a Walk, Down-Back, and In Praise of Eagle Mountain.

Two years ago, it was quite humbling when I received my first box of books. Then more humbling to drop off copies at The Eloquent Page in St. Albans, Vermont. Not something that I considered a possibility for much of my life. Frankly, it took awhile for it all to come together. Yet, there it was and I don’t mind saying that it was somewhat emotional having my project become real. When you care about something, it’s normal for emotions to well up inside. I’m okay with that response.

Continue Reading Terry Lovelette Holiday Update

poetry book by Lady Madeline Rose

PSOV is pleased to announce the recent publication of “Love, Friendship, & Family” by Lady Madeline Rose (aka Teresa Poquette.) Teresa is a member of the Poetry Society of Vermont, and has enjoyed reading her poetry at events near her home on one of the Lake Champlain Islands of Vermont, as well as sharing her poetry at the monthly meetings of the PSOV Online Poetry Group. Love, Friendship, & Family is one of several poetry books by Teresa, including her first self-published book in 2019, Poquette’s Poems by Amelia & Teresa Poquette (poems by Teresa and her mother, Amelia.)

In This House…

You can find Love, Friendship, and Family on Amazon: https://a.co/d/gsPNXow

Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s)  on the new PSOV Member Bookshop where Love, Friendship, and Family will soon be listed. Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.)

new collection by Ivy Schweitzer

PSOV is pleased to announce the debut full-length solo collection “Dividing Rivers: Poems” by PSOV member Ivy Schweitzer, now available at the Finishing Line Bookstore and on the PSOV Member BookShop. To learn more about Ivy and her poetry go to “Poet Talk” podcast and listen to the reading and interview with Ellen Miller-Mack and click on her author site linked below.

Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s)  on the new PSOV Member Bookshop. Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.)

poems by Buffy Aakaash

PSOV is excited to announce the publication of Buffy Aakaash’s new poetry book “Breaking,” now available for pre-order on the new PSOV Online Member BookShop. Buffy is the current Editor of the Poetry Society of Vermont’s journal The Mountain Troubadour, as well as PSOV Treasurer and host of the monthly PSOV Online Poetry Group.

Buffy Aakaash’s poems are heart-rich and earth-rich and time-rich. The cycles of the natural world parallel the cycles of loss and love experienced by the speaker. Love turns into loss, winter transforms into spring. Aakaash tracks and makes visible the rise and fall of intimacy between lovers and among family in language that is luminous and precise. Rooted in the chaos and breakthroughs of middle age, these poems enact how attentiveness to others and to the world can nourish and alter the soul, the body. These poems are ambitious and rich with unpredictable imagery and hard-won insight.

-Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning and Guillotine

Purchase a copy of “Breaking” here on the PSOV Member BookShop.

Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s)  on the new PSOV Member Bookshop. Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.)

PSOV is thrilled to launch our new Poetry Society of Vermont Member BookShop! This online bookshop is intended to showcase the incredible work of our members and inspire fellow poets in their own writing journey.

By creating our own shop through Bookshop.org, we support the PSOV mission of “promoting enthusiasm for poetry” while providing our member authors with a worldwide distribution platform. Every purchase made on Bookshop.org financially supports communities like ours and independent bookstores, offering a socially-conscious alternative to Amazon. Please note, when members send friends and family to purchase books at our new member bookshop, it helps support PSOV. 

Member Authors: Get Your Books Listed!

To take part in this new member benefit, send the title of your book, your name, and the books ISBN13 number (very important) to ed****@********************nt.org.

a new poetry book by Elaine Pentaleri

The Poetry Society of Vermont is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of PSOV member, Elaine Pentaleri’s new poetry book, Dreamscape with Absinthe, now available for pre-order at a reduced price until November 28, 2025 on the Finishing Line Press Bookstore.

In a subliminal playground, Dreamscape with Absinthe blurs the lines between dream and logic, preferring the former.  Exploring the elusive nature of spirituality, the darkness of grief and despair, the complexities of sexuality and love, Dreamscape with Absinthe lands on the light, uplifting irony of letting go.  With hints of Buddhism, feminism, and a connection with the natural world, these poems deliver a hopeful interpretation of the impermanence and intangibility of this worldly life. (quote and header image by Finishing Line Press)

Be sure to support member authors by purchasing a copy of their book(s.) Also, look for member books in your local independent bookstore( if not available, suggest they support Vermont poets and stock them.) PSOV members are welcome to make their books available for sale at most PSOV Workshops and Events.

PSOV is excited to share the following press release from Rootstock Publishing announcing the publication of Time Capsule by Poetry Society of Vermont member, Nancy Gordon.

Montpelier, VT—Rootstock Publishing announces the October 14 release of Time Capsule, the debut poetry chapbook by Nancy Gordon from Lake Placid and the Adirondack Region of New York.

Time Capsule is about love lost and love kept, the challenges of aging, worries over climate change, escapades with dogs, broken friendships, and art and literature—in essence, poems as varied as life. Often inspired by the Adirondacks, Gordon engages with subjects from dancing to death and forms from sonnets to villanelles. 

“I’ve loved words all my life, taught English and creative writing for years, and was always doing some scribbling. After retiring from two careers, both of which were challenging and satisfying, I joined some poetry groups, and that turned into more productivity and better poems,” the 87-year-old poet said. “I’ve been delighted to find another way to stay active and to know that my age doesn’t matter.”

Nancy Gordon was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1938, and grew up in Chestertown and Au Sable Forks, New York. She graduated from Wellesley College, earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Wesleyan University, and taught high-school English for years, including a year teaching in New Zealand on a Fulbright-Hays exchange grant. Her marriage in her mid thirties took her to Miami, where she earned a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, and then practiced law until 2012. In the years since her retirement she has been writing poems and enjoying poetry workshops.

Time Capsule: Poems (ISBN: 978-1-57869-209-5) is available for the book trade through Ingram and for the public everywhere books are sold or at www.rootstockpublishing.com, with autographed copies available from The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, New York.

A launch event with Nancy reading and signing copies of the book will take place at The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid on Saturday, October 11 at 3:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.–

Samantha Kolber, MFA
Pronouns: she/her
Owner/Publisher

Rootstock Publishing, an imprint of Ziggy Media LLC

32 St. Paul Street, Montpelier, VT 05602

www.rootstockpublishing.com