Vermont's Independent Voice
Browse News
Browse Arts + Culture
Browse Food + Drink
Browse Cannabis
Browse Music
Browse On Screen
Browse Events
Browse Classifieds
Browse Personals
Jim Schley
Contributing writer Jim Schley has edited nearly 200 books in a wide range of genres and subject areas. He leads book discussions around the state for Vermont Humanities. And as a theater artist, having toured internationally with Bread & Puppet and the Swiss troupe Les Montreurs d’Images, currently he’s performing with Parish Players and BarnArts. He lives in Strafford.
Find Stories by Jim Schley
Browse by:
Trending
Recent Articles
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems,' Adrie Kusserow
We live in an epoch of refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, as of October 2023 more than 110 million people in our…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Vermont Poet Sydney Lea on His New Collections of Verse and Prose
Sydney Lea has been busy. The prolific writer, peripatetic teacher, influential editor and literacy activist has also long been a hunter, fisherman and ardent…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart and Other Stories,' GennaRose Nethercott
GennaRose Nethercott's new collection of prose fiction arrives riding a wave of fanfare for her previous work. The Lumberjack's Dove (2018) is a book-length…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'Razzle Dazzle,' Major Jackson
Major Jackson is a writer who "started talking and reading like crazy" at 3 years old, as he told Chard deNiord, former Vermont poet…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'The Professor of Forgetting,' Greg Delanty
A poem called "Diagnoses" in Greg Delanty's newest book begins, "Our world's under general anaesthetic." Yet on page after page, the Burlington poet's…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'Belfield,' Joan Aleshire
In one of her Reith Lectures for the BBC, novelist Hilary Mantel observed, "We carry the genes and the culture of our ancestors, and…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Book Review: 'The Book,' Mary Ruefle
When Mary Ruefle of Bennington was chosen in 2019 as Vermont's ninth poet laureate, she followed the lead of many of her predecessors and…
-
-
Arts + Culture
Ellen Bryant Voigt Talks About Her New Landmark Volume of 'Collected Poems'
In 1999, when Ellen Bryant Voigt was chosen for a four-year term as Vermont state poet (now called poet laureate), she initiated a special…
find, follow, fan us: