This special reading celebrates National Poetry Month and features three Vermont poets: Rage Hezekiah, Matthew Olzmann, and Leslie Sainz. This reading will take place on Sunday, April 19 at 2:00 pm in the Red Mill Building and includes light refreshments. A limited number of books will be available for sale and author signing thanks to our partnership with independent bookseller, Phoenix Books.

Rage Hezekiah is a poet and educator whose poems have been anthologized, co-translated, and published internationally. Her recent collection, Yearn, was a Diode Editions Book Contest winner, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Vermont Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is the 2025 Outpost Vermont Fellow and serves as Interviews Editor at The Common.

Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design. Olzmann’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is a Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Leslie Sainz is the author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (Tin House, 2023), winner of the 2024 Audre Lorde Award and a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, the New England Book Award, and the Vermont Book Award. The daughter of Cuban exiles, her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Poetry, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.