You won't want to miss this!!
Live Poetry Reading in front of the Montpelier Senior Activity Center
located at 58 Barre St
FEAST Farm Stand open from 1-2pm
Live music with Jolynda Burton at 1pm
- all are welcome to both events!
2pm Moving a Stone: Live Poetry Reading
...with co-translators James Shea and Dorothy Tse, part-time Montpelier residents and creative writing professors in Hong Kong, as they share poetry from their new book Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong. Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who blends philosophical inquiry with everyday life. He refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories, news reports, prayers, and slang. This bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty years.
James Shea is the author of two poetry collections, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye, both from Fence Books. Recipient of grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council, he is the director of the Creative and Professional Writing Program at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dorothy Tse is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose books include Owlish and So Black. Tse has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, Unitas New Fiction Writers' Award (Taiwan), and the Hong Kong Award for Creative Writing in Chinese. She has been a resident at Art Omi, the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, and the Vermont Studio Center.
**City of Montpelier's FEAST Farm Stand:
Featuring Fresh, Local Produce from the FEAST Farm at Affordable Prices, Enticing Live Events and Social Gathering Time – every Wednesday from 1-3pm in front of the Montpelier Senior Activity Center
(Sponsored by AARP and CVCOA)
Upcoming Events Lined up:
7/20 1pm Live Music with Jolynda Burton | 2pm Poetry Reading with Dorothy Tse & James Shea
07/27 1pm Ellie Stubbs: Investing With Your Values presentation | 2pm Director's Tea with Sarah Lipton
08/03 1pm Seed Science Demo with Matt Wilson | 2pm Celia Ryker presents her book: Walking Home: Trail Stories
8/10 1pm Everybody Wins – Matching Mentors with Kids in Reading | 2pm Live Music with MSAC's Community Jam
8/17 2pm Marc Gwinn: Outsmart the Scammers presentation
Nov 21, 2024, 4:30 to 6 PM
Worst. Song. Ever. (Supporting River Access Task Force)Nov 23, 2024, 5 PM
Footloose the Musical at Chandler Music Hall, RandolphNov 23, 2024, 7 to 8:30 PM