Poet Karla Van Vliet to Read in Calais

Past event
Sep 23, 2018, 3 to 4 PM

For the second weekend of our 3-Sundays-in-September-at-3 O'Clock
WORDS OUT LOUD reading series
Karla Van Vliet will be reading her poetry, along with George Longenecker
this Sunday, September 23, 2018
at the Old West Church
758 Old West Church Road
with a reception to follow within the Art at the Kent exhibit, "Backstory," at the Kent Museum
Come listen, meet the authors afterward, and enjoy creativity, caring community, and contemporary art in Calais!

Karla Van Vliet is the author of two poetry collections, From the Book of Remembrance and The River from My Mouth, and the hot-off-the-press chapbook, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit. An Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and a Best of the Net prize nominee, Van Vliet has had poems published in Acumen, Poet Lore, Blue Heron Review, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Crannóg Magazine, and elsewhere. A cofounder and editor of deLuge Journal, a literary and arts journal, she has been a panelist at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the New Hampshire Poetry Festival. She is an Integrative Dreamwork analyst and administrator of the New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, Middlebury College. Van Vliet lives in Bristol, Vermont.

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