Poetry

Independent Filmmaker Nora Jacobson had never heard of Vermont poet laureate Ruth Stone until she was asked to interview her prior to the poet’s death in 2011. Once she did she was enthralled, and decided to make a documentary about the poet’s life and legacy. That film – Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind – makes its television premiere as part of the Made Here series, and Vermont Public’s Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Jacobson about the documentary.

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The 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines visited Holyoke, Massachusetts, this week for a reading of her work with students close to her own age, some who had dropped out of high school and are now working toward graduation.

The list of 2021 finalists has been revealed for the Vermont Book Award — a literary prize awarded annually by Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, for works of outstanding literary merit by Vermont authors.

Ruth Stone authored 13 books of poetry, all while raising three children, largely alone. She won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was named Vermont Poet Laureate in 2007. Now a Norwich-based filmmaker has completed a documentary about Stone that’s been more than a decade in the making.

Sydney Lea is among the most celebrated artists in Green Mountain State history. And in 2021, he added another accolade he says is especially close to his heart: winner of the 2021 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Vermont Arts Council.

Brave Little State speaks to Burlington-based poet Rajnii Eddins about life, art and “courageous vulnerability,” and Eddins performs some of his favorite poems, old and new.

We talk to writer Tomás Morín about his new book of poetry, Machete.

A classical cellist and Burr and Burton Academy senior became Vermont's Poetry Out Loud state champion back in March. And now Irén Hangen Vázquez's verse…

Madeleine Kunin served as Vermont's 77th governor — the first and only woman to hold that position.The former politician is also a writer who has written…