The Poetry Society of Vermont has published a literary journal called The Mountain Troubadour since 1949. It began as a four-page newsletter and later became a poetry journal in 1956.This journal is a collection of selected poems by members of the Poetry Society of Vermont.

The Mountain Troubadour 2026

Issue #72, The Poetry Society of Vermont

Release Date: June 16, 2026

The 2026 Mountain Troubadour is available for pre-order online at Rootstock Publishing.

The Mountain Troubadour 2025

Issue #71, The Poetry Society of Vermont

Release Date: June 12, 2025

The 2025 Mountain Troubadour is available online at IngramSpark (Rootstock Publishing‘s printer & distributor.)

PSOV members receive a free print copy of The Mountain Troubadour, journals will be mailed in the spring to all current members. Members who register after the spring mailing will not receive a print copy of The Mountain Troubadour until the following spring but can always access the digital copy anytime on this website.

To have your poems considered for The Mountain Troubadour, become a member and enter the many contests and submission opportunities we offer, see the PSOV Member Benefits page for details.

Our good green State is rich in poets, each one attuned to their inner life and attentive to the outer world they live in. From a high school senior, Beniamino Nardin, to the venerable 92-year-old Ann B. Day, the poems in the 75th anniversary issue offer the reader inspiration, solace, grief, and joy, found in each of us and in nature herself.

And they all shine.

Mary Ruefle, Vermont Poet Laureate