Sundog Poetry Center Announces New Poetry Lecture Series: April-October 2015

Sundog Poetry Center, a non-profit charitable organization focused on supporting poets and promoting poetry throughout Vermont, has announced a new statewide original poetry lecture series entitled "Poets and Their Craft". The series consists of ten individual events, free and open to the public, at a selection of independent bookstores throughout Vermont, beginning April 3, 2015 and concluding on October 8, 2015.

Each lecture will be on a topic chosen by the poet-lecturer, discussion between the poet and attendees to follow. Participating poets include Sydney Lea, Jay Parini, Major Jackson, David Budbill, Pamela Harrison, David Huddle, Neil Shepard, Diana Whitney, Baron Wormser, Mary Jane Dickerson, and Tamra J. Higgins. Lectures and discussions include topics like “Conjuring Voices of the Past: The Convergence of History and Poetry,” “Working with the Image: Inside to Out,” and “The Art of Concealing and Revealing in Poetry.”

At the culmination of the series, Sundog Poetry Center will publish an anthology of the series lectures and discussions as well as information about the participating independent bookstores and poets.

Calendar

• Friday, April 3, 2015, 7pm, Norwich Bookstore, Norwich; Sydney Lea: “Inviting the Reader: Narrative Values, Lyric Presentation”
  
• Thursday, April 23, 2015, 7pm, The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury; David Huddle: “Formal Choice as the Path to Fresh Possibility”
  
• Thursday, May 14, 2015, 7pm, Galaxy Bookshop, Hardwick; David Budbill: “Poetry: Special or Ordinary?”
  
• Thursday, June 3, 2015, 7pm, Ebenezer Books, Johnson; Neil Shepard: “The Art of Concealing and Revealing in Poetry”
  
• Thursday, June 25, 2015, 7pm, Bridgeside Books, Waterbury; Pamela Harrison: “Grounding the Moment: Deploying Dramatic and Thematic Cues”
  
• Saturday, July 18, 2015, 6pm, Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center; Jay Parini: “Working with the Image: Inside to Out”
  
• Thursday, August 6, 2015, 7pm, Phoenix Books, Burlington; Mary Jane Dickerson and Tamra J. Higgins: “Conjuring Voices of the Past: The Convergence of History and Poetry”
  
• Thursday, August 27, 2015, 7pm, Bear Pond Books, Montpelier; Major Jackson: “The Music Inside Lyric Poetry”
  
• Thursday, September 17, 2015, 7pm, Bartleby’s Books, Wilmington; Diana Whitney: “’The Dense Fragrance that Rises form the Earth’: Nature and Desire in Lyric Poetry”
  
• Thursday, October 8, 2015, 7pm, Misty Valley Books, Chester; Baron Wormser: “The Irony and the Ecstasy: On the Nature of Poetry”
  

Sundog Poetry Center is a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to promote poetry as necessary to the enrichment of our cultural lives, support poets in their work and create audiences for their poetry, and provide ways to share poetry throughout the Vermont community. This event is made possible in part due to funding from the Vermont Humanities Council and sponsorship by Burlington City Arts, and Mount Mansfield Community TV (MMCTV).