SUMMER WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12th 2023
Location- TBD
The Poetry Society of Vermont holds a Summer Festival each year where members gather to celebrate summer and poetry! Go here for a list of the Summer Contests.
Details to come!
Fall Workshop
FALL WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14th 2023
LOCATION: TBA
Join us for the Poetry Society of Vermont’s Fall Workshop with Judy Chalmer, poet and educator. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Vermont Humanities and is featured in their “Words of the Woods” video production.
More details to come!
PoemCity 2023
Poetry Society of Vermont Reading
Poetry Society of Vermont members read original work followed by an open mic. Part of PoemCity 2023, presented by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, April 18, 2023.
Spring Workshop
SPRING LUNCHEON & WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, MAY 13th 2023 12-4
Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm
1119 Quechee Main Street, Quechee, VT 05059
We’re pleased to have Chard deNiord join us again as PSOV Workshop Critic. A former poet laureate of Vermont (2015-2019), Chard was our workshop critic in 2017. He has led many workshops, including the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. A prolific author, he will read some of his own work after commenting on all of our poems. https://www.charddeniord.com/
If you have books to sell, you’re welcome to bring them. Also consider bringing literary journals to give away; it’s helpful to others to see potential publications for submission. Please take home any unclaimed journals.Continue Reading Spring Workshop
PoemCity 2023
Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month at Montpelier’s PoemCity 2023. The list of poetry events throughout the month of April offers a wide range of options, including workshops and readings by Poetry Society of Vermont members.
PSOV CELEBRATES 75 YEARS
A RETROSPECTIVE
BEGINNINGS
A cursory review of poetry societies across the country reveals that 32 have their beginnings in—or at least now are attached to—the National Federation of State Poetry Societies organized in 1959. At least 30 are affiliated with the Academy of American Poetry’s Poetry Coalition and can be found at poets.org.
The Poetry Society of Vermont falls into neither of these camps. The PSOV archives remind us that “On May 15th 1947 at the Hotel Vermont in Burlington Mary (aka Mollie, PSOV’s fourth president) Newton Baldwin…witnessed the birth of a long-cherished idea…the creation of The Poetry Society of Vermont.”Continue Reading PSOV CELEBRATES 75 YEARS
Stalking the Great Blue
by Ann B Day
There is a certain place on a back road
where I always drive slowly to see over
the guardrail into the wetland,
just in case.
One quiet afternoon it is there in the marsh
close to the guardrail. I pull ahead to park,
quietly climb out of the car with my camera
on my shoulder.Continue Reading Stalking the Great Blue
Vermont Poet Laureate
In 1961, Vermont established a state poet laureate position, which is currently held by Mary Ruefle, who was appointed to a four-year term in 2019. Ruefle is the author of over a dozen full-length poetry collections, the most recent of which is Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry.
https://poets.org/state/VT
