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Arts + Life
Weybridge Hosts a Community Haiku Competition
Last Saturday, author Julia Alvarez stood at the head of a column of folding tables shaded by a small collapsible tent outside Weybridge Elementary School.… -
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Plattsburgh's Famous Letter Writer on the Poetry of Pop
Truly defining pop music has long proved an elusive task. Michael Jackson declared himself the King of it, Radiohead swore it was dead and… -
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The New 'Collected Poems' Invites Re-Reading Galway Kinnell
A munificently talented and prolific generation of American poets is leaving us. In recent years, we've lost Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Maxine Kumin, Daniel… -
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Quick Lit: 'The Shower Scene from Hamlet' by Daniel Lusk
Daniel Lusk's newest volume of poems, The Shower Scene From Hamlet, spans a thousand years, a handful of visual art genres and a veritable… -
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'Refuge' and Readings in East Calais
Art at the Kent is a quintessentially Vermont experience: a large, important art exhibit in the middle of nowhere. The venue is the Kent Museum,… -
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Reuben Jackson's Mysterious Friend Is a Facebook Hit
Reuben Jackson is best known to Vermonters as the velour-voiced host of "Friday Night Jazz" on Vermont Public Radio. The 60-year-old native of Washington,… -
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Arts + Life
Dartmouth Prof Teaches Storytelling, From Comics to Clay
Michael A. Chaney is a writer, painter and associate professor of English at Dartmouth College, where he chairs the African and African American Studies… -
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Evan Premo Sets to Music Poems by David Budbill
When Wolcott poet David Budbill died on September 25, 2016, a New York Times obituary remembered him as a poet "who celebrated simple pleasures… -
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Arts + Life
Poet Vievee Francis Earns High Honors
Some books seem enormous because they have many pages. A book of poems may be slim in size and yet immense in other ways,… -
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Arts + Life
In Morrisville, River Arts Launches AMP Night
A watercolor class, a poetry clinic, a Pilates class set to invigorating tunes: These are among the diverse activities taking place on any given… -
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Arts + Life
December 10th: A Poem by Vermont's Poet Laureate
I saw the first cardinal this morning in the snow outside my window at the feeder and was tempted to call him my heart… -
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Arts + Life
AI Rocks Music But Literature, Not So Much
Authors who are worried they'll soon be replaced by computer algorithms can breathe a sigh of relief — for now. But dance club turntablists… -
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Arts + Life
Book Review: Shift by Marylen Grigas
The cover of Marylen Grigas' first poetry collection is a blurry photo of the open road. It looks as if the driver shot it… -
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Book Review: Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter, Elizabeth Powell
Poet Elizabeth A.I. Powell edits Green Mountains Review and teaches at Johnson State College, where that journal is published. She also teaches writing in… -
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Major Jackson Wins Vermont Book Award
On Saturday night, at a gala on its Montpelier campus, the Vermont College of Fine Arts awarded the second annual Vermont Book Award to poet… -
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Book Review: Questions in the Vestibule by Rachel Hadas
Rachel Hadas is a formal poet, which is to say she is interested in poetic forms as both tools for expression and as structures… -
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Arts + Life
David Budbill Talks About Poetry, Life and the Tao
It's a surprise to realize that David Budbill has never been poet laureate of Vermont. He might also have been named playwright laureate —… -
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Muslim Slam Poets Head to National Competition
Updated on June 6, 2016 with new performance information. Since being featured in Seven Days in April, Balkisa Abdikadir, Lena Ginawi, Hawa Adam and Kiran Waqar, 15-… -
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Mother-Son Duo Seek Poetry for New Zine
When Randee Eddins was a little girl — the second youngest of five children — she had difficulty expressing herself with the same verbal-whiplash wit… -
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Leland Kinsey, Still 'Galvanized' by Poetry
A little more than a year ago, 65-year-old Barton poet Leland Kinsey was in the hospital with what seemed like a death sentence. "It… -
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Arts + Life
Stephen Cramer's Poems Sound Like Music
If there were a CliffsNotes version, or a summative tweet, for Stephen Cramer's new poetry book Bone Music, it might be the last line… -
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Arts + Life
Page 32: Seven Books to Watch Out For
Seven Days' writers can't possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one… -
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Arts + Life
Farmer Taylor Katz Is a Poet for Hire
The phrase "paid poet" sounds like a scoff-worthy contradiction in terms — even in April, which is National Poetry Month. Then again, there is… -
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Books: M. Dickey Drysdale Revisits a Writing Life
A year ago, when M. Dickey Drysdale was thinking of selling his newspaper, the Herald of Randolph, he dug into a leather satchel that… -
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Poetry Review: 'Steel' by Alison Prine
In her debut collection, Steel, Burlington poet and psychotherapist Alison Prine constructs a sharp portrait of grief and winds through her own life in…
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