This Fall marks the 6th year of Sunday afternoon readings of poetry & prose by Vermont authors at the Old West Church held in conjunction with the annual Art at the Kent exhibit.
This year's exhibit is "reVision," and this year's authors put their own spin on reVision.
3 Sundays @ 3 O'Clock in September
at the Old West Church
with receptions to follow down at the Kent
where listeners may meet the authors, have books signed, and enjoy refreshments
while taking in the reVision exhibit,
contemporary work by a large group of Vermont artists
on display throughout the Kent building and grounds
This Sunday's September 15 readers include Susan Ritz (reading from her mystery novel) and Sue D. Burton (reading her poetry).
About the presenters:
Susan Ritz makes her home in Montpelier, Vermont, where she has lived with her family for thirty years. She grew up in Minnesota and has lived, studied, and worked as a social worker in Kenya, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia and as a human rights lobbyist in Washington, DC, during the Carter Administration. A period spent living in Dachau, Germany, would provide the setting for her memoir-in-progress, On the Edge of Dachau. After earning an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College, Ritz began writing for local publications, teaching creative writing to adults and high school students, and working on her first novel, A Dream to Die For.
Sue D. Burton's collection BOX, selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, won Silver in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Poetry Book of the Year Awards. She is also the author of LITTLE STEEL (2018), from Fomite Press. She has been awarded Fourth Genre's 2017 Steinberg Essay Prize, is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and is a recipient of a grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mudlark, New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, and Verse Daily. Apprenticeship-trained as a physician assistant at the Vermont Women's Health Center, she worked as a PA in Vermont for over twenty-five years. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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SEPTEMBER 29 authors: Daniel Lusk (poetry) & Janet Pocorobba (memoir)
WORDS OUT LOUD is an event of Art at the Kent. The reading series has been co-organized by curator Allyson Evans & Mary Elder Jacobsen. Thanks to curators Nel Emlen & David Schutz and Kent docents for their ongoing support.
Event is free, but donations encouraged, by check or cash, to help keep the Old West Church and Art at the Kent thriving, thanks!
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