“Remembering Robert Frost” | Zoom April 25th | St. Johnsbury Athenæum | National Poetry Month

St. Johnsbury, VT — For the sixth year, the Northeast Storytellers host a special event to commemorate Robert Frost, longtime poet laureate of Vermont. This year the event will be hosted in conjunction with the St. Johnsbury Athenæum via Zoom on Sunday, April 25th from 4:00-5:15 pm. The “Remembering Robert Frost” gathering is dedicated to the memory, poetic works, and legacy of the famed Vermont resident. 

Brief presentations will be made by notable poets in the region, including former Vermont poet laureate, Chard deNiord, and current president of the Poetry Society of Vermont, George Longenecker. Director of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire Zoom events, Jimmy Pappas, will also make a presentation. Depending on remaining time, other event attendees will be invited to share readings, reflections, history, anecdotes, and experiences they’ve had with Robert Frost, his works, and his legacy. 

This event is free and open to the public and all are welcome to attend online. Please see the related event listing in the adult events at the Athenæum website to register and receive the Zoom meeting code. With any questions regarding participating in the reading, please contact Brooke Quillen via brookequillen@yahoo.com or 802.751.5432.

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed American poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lee Frost – who was born March 26, 1874, and died January 29, 1963 – received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. Frost is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life in New England in the early twentieth century. Although he never graduated from a university, he received 44 honorary degrees during his lifetime. 

Robert Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont in 1961 after living, writing, and teaching in the Green Mountain State for many years. The Robert Frost Farm in Ripton, where he lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death, is a National Historic Landmark. He wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", one of his most popular poems, in June 1922 at his home in Shaftsbury, Vermont — which now operates as the Robert Frost Stone House Museum. The poet was laid to rest in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His gravestone carries the inscription: "I HAD A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD."

Other noted works by Robert Frost include “The Death of a Hired Man", "Mending Wall", and "The Road Not Taken". At 87 he recited his poem “The Gift Outright” from memory at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy, when faint ink from his typewriter made the poem he'd written for the occasion unreadable.

The Northeast Storytellers — a group of writers, readers, and appreciators of prose and verse — met regularly the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3:30 pm for a Poetry Tea Party at the St. Johnsbury House in downtown St. Johnsbury, Vermont as part of a program offered through the Good Living Senior Center. The group organizes events during National Poetry Month each April, participating in poetry readings and other activities throughout the year. 

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and is held every April throughout the country. It is the largest literary celebration in the world — with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital role in our lives. 

The St. Johnsbury Athenæum is a non-profit public library and art gallery located at 1171 Main Street in St. Johnsbury. It was founded as a cultural center by the Fairbanks family whose scale manufacturing company contributed to the growth of the town. Constructed in the French Second Empire style in 1871, the library was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996. A small art gallery was added in 1873, and the collection of paintings and sculptures now numbers over one hundred. Most are originals with some copies of masterpieces by Old Master artists such as Van Dyck, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Fra Angelico. Dominating the gallery is the magnificent "Domes of the Yosemite" framed oil painting by Albert Bierstadt (recently back from major refurbishment).

The Athenæum hosts a number of artistic, cultural, and educational events for the public throughout the year. 

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LIVE LINK FOR THIS RELEASE: (click here)

CONTACTS:

Brooke Quillen

Phone: 802-751-5432

E-mail: brookequillen@yahoo.com

Adele West-Fisher

Phone: 802-745-1392

E-mail: awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org

SEE ALSO:

http://www.stjathenaeum.org/ St. Johnsbury Athenæum

http://www.poetrysocietyofvermont.org/ Poetry Society of Vermont

http://www.robertfrostsociety.org/ The Robert Frost Society

http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home National Poetry Month

http://www.stjgoodliving.org/ Good Living Senior Center

Zoom Open Mic | St. Johnsbury Athenæum | 4.16.21 @ 6pm | National Poetry Month

For National Poetry Month this year, the St. Johnsbury Athenæum — in collaboration with the Northeast Storytellers — hosts an online open mic. This Zoom event starts at 6pm on Friday, April 16, 2021 and runs over an hour.

The reading slate is pretty full already, with a burgeoning waiting list. To register to view the event, or to add your name to the growing waiting list for readers, please visit the event page at the Athenæum website. Separate registration links should be provided for participants and attendees.

The Athenaeum staff will start admitting people into Zoom fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled start time. During the event, each reader will have 3-4 minutes. Material may be original or created by someone else (with proper attribution). 

Together we can make this year's open mic a big success!

VALENTINE’S DAY POETRY READING FROM ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENÆUM

Love-Themed Event via Zoom on February 14, 2021 @ 4pm

St. Johnsbury, VT — For the sixth time, the Northeast Storytellers host a special event in honor of the patron saint for lovers via Zoom on Sunday, February 14, 2021 from 4-5:15 pm. In association with the St. Johnsbury Athenæum, group members and guests will participate online via Zoom, sharing love-themed readings. An award for the best love poem reading will be presented, if possible, as determined by audience appreciation.

Readers this year include: Geof Hewitt, Jimmy Pappas, Marta Finch, Marshall Witten, Judy Janoo, S. J. Cahill, James Frase-White, and Jim Barrett. Rachel Hadas and Shalom Gorewitz will participate from New York City.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend online. Please see the related event page in the adult events listings at the Athenæum website to register for the Zoom meeting. To participate in the reading, please contact Brooke Quillen (brookequillen@yahoo.com or 802.751.5432) to see if any slots may have opened up.

The Athenaeum hosts a number of artistic, cultural, and educational events for the public throughout the year.

CONTACT:

Adele West-Fisher

Phone: 802-745-1392

E-mail: awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org

Until We Learn to Rise | Updated Version | Early Reviews

"I have 'kissed' the love poems; so fine, delicate, but with a deep well beneath the words."

James Frase-White

Early reviews on the updated version of Until We Learn to Rise are good.

"Nice opening with the love poem — both the rhyming and shape on the page. The cute and clever backwards poem is fun and the first two poems set the stage for the variety that follows."

You may not want to miss out on all the fun.

"Lots of fun poems, a potpourri, some flip, some profound, and some about the heartbreak of lost love. Occasionally there's some stretching for rhyme, but it's all in good fun."

The added inducements received special praise.

"(The illustrations) add a wonderful visual dimension as do the various poem shapes on the page (and) the various plays with punctuation."

S. J. Cahill

The e-book is free with Kindle Unlimited, which offers a free introductory membership. 

In-person sales and signed copies can be arranged directly with the author.

Honorable Mention, J. Richard Barry Memorial Award: "Lazy Man's Guide to Sugarin'"

“Sugarin' is a time-honored past-time in Vermont. This poem captures that past-time in an inventive form with both humor and an excellent list or a "guide" for the "lazyman." It is often difficult to write humorous poems, or poems that can inventively touch on something that is overwritten and clichéd. This poem receives an honorable mention due to succeeding on both counts: it reinvents the typical maple sugaring poem in an engaging poetic form, with italicized asides, and provides some levity and poet-humor. Who needs all the fancy contraptions when you can make due with what you've got? Congratulations to this poet for evoking our Vermont time-honored past-time, maple sugarin'.”

Sarah Audsley, Judge

Through the Window, Across the Road | May 9, 2020

Amy Königbauer is currently working on collecting experiences of people living in self-isolation, quarantine, and the working-or-not-working-from-home times of Covid-19. A work in progress consisting of making photographs, collaborating with Beck Norman, and looking for writers to submit their work. A collection of images, poems, and prose will arrive the summer of 2020. 

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Calling for submissions of 1000 words or less from Vermont-based poets and writers, written during this period of global quarantine, due to Covid-19.

In collaboration with photographers Beck Norman and Amy Königbauer, selected writings will be considered for publication, to accompany safely shot portraits (through windows and across streets) of friends and neighbors living throughout our communities, during these unique and wild times of self-isolation.

Suggested themes for submissions are: impact, access, equity, ups and downs, community, longing, grief, sickness, loneliness, loss, fortune, abundance, time, productivity, the future, how you’re feeling, communication (or the lack thereof), change, connection, solitude, transformation. 

Please submit up to three pieces. Works longer than 1000 words will not be considered. 

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, May 9th, 2020. All works must be received by 11:59pm.

Questions and submissions can be sent to throughthewindowacrosstheroad@gmail.com

Sheltering In Place | Haikus | Montpelier VT | Geof Hewitt

VALENTINE’S DAY READING AT ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENÆUM

Love-Themed Event February 14, 2020 in Art Gallery @ 3pm

St. Johnsbury, VT — For the sixth year running, the Northeast Storytellers host a special event in honor of the patron saint for lovers at the St. Johnsbury Athenæum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. This year the event will be held on Valentine’s Day: Friday,  February 14, 2020 from 3-4:30 pm. In association with the St. Johnsbury Athenæum, group members and guests will appear in the world-famous Gallery sharing their love-themed readings. An award for the best love poetry or prose reading (or recitation) will be presented, as determined by audience appreciation.

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend and participate, and scrumptious refreshments will be served. If you’d like to read or recite something at this event, please show up a little before the start to sign up. Genre and style are open, but a love theme is encouraged. Contact Brooke Quillen via brookequillen@yahoo.com or on 802.751.5432 for more information.

The Northeast Storytellers — a group of writers, readers, and appreciators of verse and prose — meet regularly the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3:30 pm for a Poetry Tea Party offered through the Good Living Senior Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The public is welcome to attend, if only to listen, and new members are always encouraged to join. The group organizes events during National Poetry Month every April — ranging from workshops to commemorations to open houses — and it participates in other activities throughout the year. Many members also join the Poetry Society of Vermont, actively engaging in programs they offer.

The St. Johnsbury Athenæum is a non-profit public library and art gallery located at 1171 Main Street in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It was founded as a cultural center by the Fairbanks family whose scale manufacturing company contributed to the growth of the town. The Athenaeum hosts a number of artistic, cultural, and educational events for the public throughout the year.

Constructed in the French Second Empire style in 1871, the St. Johnsbury Athenæum was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996. A small art gallery was added in 1873, and the collection of paintings and sculptures now numbers over one hundred. Most are originals with some copies of masterpieces by Old Master artists such as Van Dyck, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Fra Angelico. Dominating the gallery is the magnificent "Domes of the Yosemite" framed oil painting by Albert Bierstadt, which is recently back from a major refurbishment.

Also called Saint Valentine's Day, the annual Valentine’s Day celebration honoring Love began in the 14th century — when the tradition of courtly love flourished. The day evolved in 18th-century Victorian England into an occasion to express love with flowers, chocolate, or greeting cards known as "Valentines". As in previous years, the prize for the audience-favorite reading or recitation at this event is selected in this spirit.

Northeast Storytellers Host Fifth-Annual “Remembering Robert Frost” April 9 @ St. Johnsbury House

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

2019 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH EVENTS IN NORTHEAST KINGDOM

St. Johnsbury, VT - March 17, 2019 — For the fifth year running the Northeast Storytellers host a Robert Frost remembrance on Tuesday, April 9th from 2-3:30 pm in place of the regular monthly Poetry Tea Party. The “Remembering Robert Frost” special gathering will be dedicated to the memory, poetic works, and legacy of the famed longtime Vermont resident and poet laureate.

The memorial event will take place at the St. Johnsbury House located at 1207 Main Street in St. Johnsbury as part of a Good Living Senior Center program. Members of the public, residents of the St. Johnsbury House, and Northeast Storytellers will share readings, reflections, history, anecdotes, and experiences they’ve had with Robert Frost, his works, and his legacy. Everyone is invited to participate. The event is hosted by the Northeast Storytellers, and refreshments will be served.

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed American poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lee Frost – who was born March 26, 1874, and died January 29, 1963 – received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. And he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life in New England in the early twentieth century. Frost never graduated from a university, but he received 44 honorary degrees during his lifetime.

Robert Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont in 1961 after living, writing, and teaching in the Green Mountain State for many years. The Robert Frost Farm in Ripton, where he lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death, is a National Historic Landmark. He wrote "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", one of his most popular poems, in June 1922 at his home in Shaftsbury — which now operates as the Robert Frost Stone House Museum. The poet was laid to rest in the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington. His gravestone carries the inscription: "I HAD A LOVER'S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD."

Other noted works by Robert Frost include “The Death of a Hired Man", "Mending Wall", and "The Road Not Taken". At 87 he recited his poem “The Gift Outright” from memory at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy, when faint ink from his typewriter made the poem he'd written for the occasion unreadable.

The Northeast Storytellers — a group of writers, readers, and appreciators of prose and verse — meet regularly the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3:30 pm for a Poetry Tea Party at the St. Johnsbury House as a part of programs offered through the Good Living Senior Center. The public is welcome to attend if only to listen, and new members are always encouraged to join. The group organizes events during National Poetry Month every April, participating in other activities throughout the year.

National Poetry Month was inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and is held every April throughout the country. It is the largest literary celebration in the world — with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital role in our lives.

Formerly a noted hotel, the elegantly refurbished St. Johnsbury House is now a residential facility for those 55 and over — conveniently located on Main Street close to the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum and Fairbanks Museum. The Good Living Senior Center programs and activities, managed by Vanna Guldenschuh, enrich the lives of folks over 50 from around the Northeast Kingdom. They offer public lunches Monday through Friday in the former hotel dining room.

All Northeast Storyteller events are free and open to the public. Everybody is welcome to attend and participation is strongly encouraged. For more information, please email brookequillen@yahoo.com or call 802.751.5432.

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Contact: Brooke Quillen
Phone: 802-751-5432
E-mail: brookequillen@yahoo.com

SEE ALSO:
http://www.robertfrostsociety.org/ The Robert Frost Society
http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home National Poetry Month
http://www.stjgoodliving.org/ Good Living Senior Center

PoemTown Randolph, Vermont: Activities and Events

The work of 70 Vermont poets will be displayed in businesses and organizations throughout the town of Randolph during the month of April 2019. The town also offers an exciting schedule of activities for National Poetry Month: 

• PoemTown kick-off — Monday, April 1, 2019 Montpelier poet Kerrin McCadden at the Black Krim with dinner at 6pm followed by a reading: 7pm
• Reading — Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Three published poets read at Kimball Public Library (Corey Cook, Anne Shivas, Carol Potter) with light refreshments: 7pm
• Open mic — Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Kimball Public Library: 7pm
• Farmer poets read — Saturday, April 20, 2019 Silloway Maple sugar house in Randolph Center (Taylor Katz, Carl Russell, Caitlin Gildrien) with sugar on snow and light refreshments: 7pm 
• Grand Finale with Los Lorcas — Thursday, April 25, 2019 In the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca — gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright and ebullient performer — poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up: 7pm 

All events are free (except for food and drink at the Black Krim). Please contact Becky McMeekin of PoemTown Randolph for more on these activities and events.

*nearly 200 poems were submitted for consideration.

Downtown Randolph, Vermont

Poets! Storytellers! Lovers of Love! Take Heart!

A VALENTINE POETRY READING AT ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENÆUM
Love-Themed Event to be Held February 9, 2019 in Art Gallery @ 1pm

St. Johnsbury, VT — For the fifth year running, the Northeast Storytellers host a special event in honor of the patron saint for lovers in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Saturday,  February 9, 2019 from 1-2:15 pm. In association with the St. Johnsbury Athenæum, group members and guests will appear in the world-famous Gallery sharing their love-themed readings. An award for the best love poem reading will be presented, as determined by audience appreciation.

Also called Saint Valentine's Day, this annual celebration honoring Love began in the 14th century — when the tradition of courtly love flourished. The day evolved in 18th-century Victorian England into an occasion to express love with flowers, chocolate, or greeting cards known as "Valentines". Valentine's Day falls on the following Thursday this year.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend and participate, and tasty refreshments will be served. To participate in the reading, please show up a little before the event for sign-up. For more information contact Brooke Quillen via brookequillen@yahoo.com or 802.751.5432.

The Northeast Storytellers — a group of writers, readers, and appreciators of prose and verse — meet regularly the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3:30 pm for a Poetry Tea Party through the Good Living Senior Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The public is welcome to attend, if only to listen, and new members are always encouraged to join. The group organizes events during National Poetry Month every April — ranging from workshops to commemorations to open houses — and it participates in other activities throughout the year.

The St. Johnsbury Athenæum is a non-profit public library and art gallery located at 1171 Main Street in St. Johnsbury. It was founded as a cultural center by the Fairbanks family whose scale manufacturing company contributed to the growth of the town. Constructed in the French Second Empire style in 1871, the Athenæum was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996. A small art gallery was added in 1873, and the collection of paintings and sculptures now numbers over one hundred. Most are originals with some copies of masterpieces by Old Master artists such as Van Dyck, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Fra Angelico. Dominating the gallery is the magnificent "Domes of the Yosemite" framed oil painting by Albert Bierstadt (recently back from major refurbishment).

The Athenaeum hosts a number of artistic, cultural, and educational events for the public throughout the year.

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LIVE LINK FOR THIS RELEASE: (click here)

CONTACTS:
Brooke Quillen
Phone: 802-751-5432
E-mail: brookequillen@yahoo.com

Adele West-Fisher
Phone: 802-745-1392
E-mail: awestfisher@stjathenaeum.org

SEE ALSO:
http://www.stjathenaeum.org/ St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
http://www.stjgoodliving.org/ Good Living Senior Center
http://www.poetrysocietyofvermont.org/ Poetry Society of Vermont
https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home National Poetry Month

Word Poems

Poet at Rest

The word poem is an original form that starts with the listing of precisely rhyming words.* A poem is then constructed which uses as many of the words on this list as possible. 

As to look on the page, the entire poem is generally centered — with the rhyming word italicized and centered by itself serving as the rhyming end to the previous line.** 

The longer lines that set up the rhyming word do not rhyme, and have no particular length or rhythm.

Consider the short example of a word poem at this blog. The king of the word poems is "The Tycoon Who Craved Macaroon" — also a narrative poem.

Poems similar to the word style have certainly been written, but the genre not defined as such — nor had a number of pieces meeting the definition been created.***

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*with matched spelling of the rhyming part preferred, but not necessary.
**alternate approaches possible.
***I've written a couple dozen word poems at this point.

Reckoning: April 9, 2018

A Poet's Existence

Using numbers from the label cloud (below), this blog contains 686 poems I've authored, 624 (91%) rhyming¹ and 461 (67%) quatrains.² Further breakouts as to form and theme:

Form: 664 categorized as to form (unexplained difference of -22).

• quatrains (461)
• short (132)
• tercets³ (17)
• sentence⁴ (15)
• couplets (11)
• beat⁵ (8)
• limericks⁶ (8)
• logic⁷ (7)
• narrative⁸ (4)
• word⁹ (1)

Theme: 717 categorized as to theme (unexplained difference of +31).

• life¹⁰ (333)
• love (126)
• truth¹¹ (55)
• art (37)
• place (36)
• sexus¹² (35)
• lifestyle (23)
• heavens (23)
• Mars (22)
• wheels (19)
• choose life (8)

All above totals require further verification. More of my poems have appeared at a website (no longer viewable online).

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1. at least some part of the poem rhymes.
2. four-line poems.
3. three-line poems
4. poems with verses (generally starting) with repeating phrase [original form].
5. free form; no repeating pattern of rhythm (or rhyme).
6. some are sets of poems.
7. more content than form.
8. poems that tell a story.
9. poems constructed around a list of consistently rhyming words [original form].
10. general category.
11. political issues.
12. male/female issues.

Northeast Storytellers Host “Remembering Robert Frost” | April 10, 2018 | St. Johnsbury VT

For the fourth year running, the Northeast Storytellers host a Robert Frost remembrance on Tuesday, April 10th from 2-3:30 pm in place of the regular monthly Poetry Tea Party. The “Remembering Robert Frost” special gathering will be dedicated to the memory, poetic works, and legacy of the longtime Vermont resident and poet laureate. 

The memorial event will take place at the St. Johnsbury House located at 1207 Main Street in St. Johnsbury as part of a Good Living Senior Center program. Members of the public, residents of the St. Johnsbury House, and Northeast Storytellers and will share readings, reflections, history, anecdotes, and experiences they’ve had with Robert Frost, his works, and his legacy. The event is hosted by the Northeast Storytellers, and refreshments will be served.

WHO: Northeast Storytellers
WHAT: Robert Frost memorial event
WHERE:  St. Johnsbury House located at 1207 Main Street in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
WHEN: April 10, 2018 from 2-3:30pm
HOW: Free. Everybody participates. Wonderful refreshments.

CONTACT: Brooke Quillen
PHONE: 802-751-5432
EMAIL: brookequillen@yahoo.com

SEE: related release and flier.

Help us spread the word!!

1959 (Library of Congress)

RELEASE: Annual Valentine's Reading at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum 2.10.18 @ 1pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

A VALENTINE POETRY READING AT ST. JOHNSBURY ATHENÆUM

Love-Themed Event to be Held February 10, 2018 in Art Gallery @ 1pm

St. Johnsbury, VT — For the fourth year running Northeast Storytellers host a special event in honor of the patron saint for lovers in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Saturday,  February 10, 2018 — from 1-2:30pm — in association with the St. Johnsbury Athenæum. Group members and guests will appear in the world-famous Gallery sharing their love-themed readings. An award for the best love poem reading will be presented.

Valentine's Day falls on the following Wednesday this year. Also called Saint Valentine's Day, this annual celebration honoring Love began in the 14th century — when the tradition of courtly love flourished. The day evolved in 18th-century Victorian England into an occasion to express love with flowers, chocolate, or greeting cards known as "Valentines".

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend and participate, and delectable refreshments will be served. To participate in the reading, please show up a little before the event for sign-up. For more information please contact Brooke Quillen via brookequillen@yahoo.com or 802.751.5432.

The Northeast Storytellers — a group of writers, readers, and appreciators of prose and verse — meet regularly the second Tuesday of every month from 2-3:30pm for a Poetry Tea Party at the Good Living Senior Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The public is welcome to attend, if only to listen, and new members are always encouraged to join. The group organizes events during National Poetry Month every April — ranging from workshops to commemorations to open houses — and it participates in other activities throughout the year.

The St. Johnsbury Athenæum is a non-profit public library and art gallery located at 1171 Main Street in St. Johnsbury. It was founded as a culture center by the Fairbanks family whose scale manufacturing company contributed to the growth of the town. The Athenaeum hosts a number of artistic, cultural, and educational events.

Constructed in the French Second Empire style in 1871, the Athenæum was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996. A small art gallery was added in 1873, and the collection of paintings and sculptures now numbers over one hundred. Most are originals with some copies of masterpieces by Old Master artists such as Van Dyck, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Fra Angelico. Dominating the gallery is the magnificent "Domes of the Yosemite" framed oil painting by Albert Bierstadt (currently out for refurbishment).

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CONTACTS:

Brooke Quillen
Phone: 802-751-5432
E-mail: brookequillen@yahoo.com

Shara McCaffrey
Phone: 802.748.8291
E-mail: smccaffrey@stjathenaeum.org

SEE ALSO:
http://www.stjathenaeum.org/ St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
http://www.stjgoodliving.org/ Good Living Senior Center
http://www.poetrysocietyofvermont.org/ Poetry Society of Vermont
https://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home National Poetry Month

Jack Kerouac Unmolested

“If it hadn’t been for Western-style capitalism, free economic byplay, movement north south east and west, haggling, pricing, and the political balance of power carved into the U.S. Constitution, I wouldn’t have been able or allowed to hitchhike half broke through 47 states of this union and see the scene with my own eyes, unmolested.”

Jack Kerouac

Dharma Bum

READINGS: 2017 PoemTown - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - April 26, 2017

The author read his narrative poem "The Man Who Brought Royalty to America" in the Art Gallery at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 — as part of the 2017 PoemTown activities.

He shared podium with other regional poetic talent, including: Alice Burnham, Louise Rader, Judy Janoo, and Joe Godwin.

Art Gallery in St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

READING: 2017 PoemTown - St. Johnsbury, Vermont - April 19, 2017

Art Gallery in St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

The author read his narrative poem "The Man Who Gave All the Dreamers in Baseball Land Bigger Dreams to Dream" in the Art Gallery at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 — as part of the 2017 PoemTown activities.

He shared podium with such incomparable poetesses as Alice Burnham, Louise Rader, and Veer Frost. Joe Godwin read 85 of his newer "ortzels".

READING: Anything Goes Poetry Slam - Montpelier, Vermont - April 14, 2017

The author read his narrative word poem "The Tycoon Who Craved Macaroon" as part of Geof Hewitt's Anything Goes Poetry Slam on April 14, 2017 in Montpelier, Vermont. Seventeen people participated in the competitive event, which took place in the lobby of the Lost Nation Theater in the Montpelier City Hall Arts Center as part of  2017 PoemCity.

"That was phenomenal!!"

Kathrine Acus

WATCH: http://www.orcamedia.net/show/poetry-slam 

RECORDING: 2017 PoemCity - Montpelier, Vermont - April 14, 2017

Experimental Structure at Goddard College

The author recorded his sonnet "Why Should He Live Off the Fat of the Land?", poem "Hold the World Together", and narrative poem "An End to War" as part of the Adventures in Poetry with Rick Agran from WGDR April 14, 2017 — during 2017 PoemCity in Montpelier, Vermont.

Recordings of the latter two poems were heard during Mr. Agran's radio show "Bon Mot" broadcast Sunday, April 23, 2017 from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont on 91.1 FM (91.7 FM in Hardwick).

All recordings can be heard here:

• "An End to War"
• "Hold the World Together"
• "Why Should He Live Off the Fat of the Land?"

Always Remember Your Glasses