Literature

For our annual winter books show, Vermont literary experts and listeners share their favorite books they read this year and what they can't wait to read in 2025.

St. Negritude discusses his first collection of poetry, "Mountain Spells."

If you're a fan of reading books by Vermont authors, this is an exciting time of year. That’s because the Vermont Department of Libraries, Vermont Humanities and Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) are announcing the finalists for the Vermont Book Award.

Kenneth Cadow's debut novel, Gather, is a finalist in the Young People’s Literature division for the 2023 National Book Award. The book follows Ian, a teenager in rural Vermont, as he deals with common teenager struggles, and something much bigger — his mom’s substance misuse disorder.

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

If you're a fan of reading books by Vermont authors, this is an exciting time of year. That’s because the Vermont Department of Libraries, Vermont Humanities, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is announcing the finalists for the Vermont Book Award.

Host Mikaela Lefrak speaks with Mary Ruefle, Vermont's poet laureate, about patience, persistence and poetry.

Host Connor Cyrus chats with Vermont's soon-to-be-appointed cartoonist laureate, Tillie Walden.

A literal fall from grace on an icy mountain. A chance encounter that follows, leading to a dangerous romance. And a confluence of events that entwines a Hollywood movie production with secretive government tests in the era of Ronald Reagan.These are the threads tied together in the debut novel Way Out West by Vermont poet Wyn Cooper.

A literary journal published out of Bennington College has been honored as one of just five publications around the country to win the prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.