Vermont Poetry Newsletter
Your Poetry & Spoken Word Gateway
In The Green Mountain State
September 18, 2010 (Previous issue: 07/14) – In This Issue:
- About VPN/How To Print
- Newsletter Editor’s Note
- A Note from PoemShape
- Writing Assignment/Suggestion/Exercise/Prompt
- Save Ink and Cash, Go Century Gothic!
- Poet Galway Kinnell
- 2010 Burlington Book Festival
- 2010 Brattleboro Literary Festival
- Middlebury Poetry Workshop, Gary Margolis
- Jeffrey M. Bernstein’s New Book: Interior Music
- Dinner with Norman Dubie
- Vermont Poem by Norman Dubie
- Poet Profile: Norman Dubie
- Poetry Workshop @ Village Square Booksellers
- Poetry as Anthropology
- Quibbles.org
- New Book by Geof Hewitt
- Book Review: The Best American Poetry 2010
- Book Review: Donald Hall’s next book, Interlude
- Poetry Citizenship and Reading Fees
- Crazyhorse Quick-Quote Contest Results
- Impressing the Prospective Boss (Memorize a poem!)
- Blank Verse Definition
- Ponderings: All Things Kerouac
- Poetry Quote – Percy Shelley
- Failbetter Poem
- Linebreak Poem
- Copper Canyon Press Poem
- American Life in Poetry Poems
- US Poets Laureate List
- Vermont Poet Laureates
- US Poet Laureates From Vermont
- New Hampshire Poet Laureates
- US Poet Laureates From New Hampshire
- Contact Info for Publisher of VPN: Ron Lewis
- Vermont Literary Journals
- Vermont Literary Groups’ Anthologies
- Vermont Poetry Blogs
- State Poetry Society (PSOV)
- Year-Round Poetry Workshops in Vermont
- Other Poetry Workshops in Vermont
- Year Around Poetry Writing Centers in Vermont
- Poetry Event Calendar
1.) About the Vermont Poetry Newsletter Network
The Vermont Poetry Newsletter Network is made up of people of all backgrounds, ages and skills who appreciate the craft of poetry and want to promote it in the beautiful state of Vermont. The network consists of a free e-mail list, an eventual web site, workshops, open mics, poetry performances and other literary events. The network provides opportunities to meet local poets, talk about and enjoy poetry, and motivate and inspire yourself in whatever writing projects you are involved.
The mission of the Vermont Poetry Newsletter is to foster the poetry arts community in the Green Mountain State. Its goals are to serve as a resource for and about VT poets; to support the development of individual poets; and to encourage an audience for poetry in Vermont.
2.) Dear Friends of Poetry:
As you may be aware, the Vermont Poetry Newsletter & Poetry Event Calendar is now archived on Patrick Gillespie’s poetry blog Poemshape. This way, you can go back and find interesting items that I brought to your attention, long after they’ve been delivered to you the first time around. An index would also be helpful, so perhaps you might see that tool in a few years.
Well, Bread Loaf is over with and I’m already feeling the withdrawal of live poetry from my life. At least I have many additional poetry books in my library that I hope to read through by this time next year; I have more than enough books for my lifetime, but my fantasy with them is intense. I hope to someday establish a Vermont’s Poets House located in Brandon or Middlebury which will be an entrée into the ageless, borderless conversation that is poetry, so that everyone who has an interest can experience the breadth and diversity of poetry.
Ron Lewis
VPN Publisher
247-5913
3.) Dear Friends of PoemShape:
Yours truly, Patrick Gillespie, author of PoemShape, will be giving a poetry reading (and discussing poetry) on the evening of September 28th, at Left Bank Books, Hanover, New Hampshire.
