Join us for the first time on March 16th from 6-9pm as we welcome poets Diana Arterian, Ruth Madievsky, Major Jackson, and Kiev Rattee.

Wishbone Collective
4 West Center Street, Winooski, Vermont 05404
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/827300830949270/

The Ruth Stone Foundation (RSF) is a non-profit organization that not only looks to preserve and heighten Ruth Stone's legacy, but also to provide poets and artists with time, space, and opportunities to create new work and share it with a wider audience.

The RSF Reading Series is a free event featuring multiple poets, both emerging and established. As often as possible RSF will pair local authors with visiting writers and invite a student of the RSF Poetry Workshop to participate. Hosted by poets Bianca Stone and Ben Pease, these readings will offer a chance for out of state writers to engage with the local community, highlight exciting local voices, and give emerging writers a chance to share their work publicly.

DIANA ARTERIAN is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, essays, and translations have been featured in Asymptote, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Poetry Foundation website, among others. Born and raised in Arizona, she currently resides in Los Angeles where she is a doctoral candidate in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA in poetry from CalArts, where she was a Beutner Fellow. Website: dianaarterian.com

Originally from Moldova, RUTH MADIEVSKY is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist living in Boston. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, was published by Tavern Books as their 2015 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series selection. Emergency Brake has spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers List and is one of their top 30 bestselling books in any genre of the last several years. Ruth Madievsky's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. When she is not writing, she works as an HIV and oncology pharmacist. Website: ruthmadievsky.com

MAJOR JACKSON is an American poet, professor and the author of three collections of poetry: HOLDING COMPANY (W.W. Norton, 2010) and HOOPS (W.W. Norton, 2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and LEAVING SATURN (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He is also a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell and currently serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.

KIEV RATTEE was born and raised in Vermont, and now lives with his wife, two cats, and red earred slider turtle in Manchester where he works as a magazine advertising executive at a brewing and winemaking media company. While an undergrad student poet at Trinity College (Burlington, Vermont) he was chosen as one of twenty-four students to travel to Russia under the sponsorship of the American Poetry Center and the Citizens Exchange Council. A chapbook of exchange poems with his father, Michael Rattee, entitled Enough Said were published by Adastra Press (Easthampton, Massachusetts) in 2002. His writing took a backseat for several years while raising three wonderful daughters, but is now a vital part of his life thanks in part to the weekly Ruth Stone Foundation poetry workshops.