You've been to wine tastings, cheese tastings, the tables at co-ops with free artisanal this-or-that. You got your nerve up to nibble the aged, slurp the raw, sip the imported, savor the domestic. Now, how's your nerve for VERVE, in verse? Up for a pinch of poetry?

Sidle up to the first in a series of three Sunday poetry readings this September, at the Old West Church, at 3 pm, then walk it off or drive down the road to the Kent exhibit VERVE: Art & Energy for book signings & reception. This Sunday, September 13, we kick off the reading series with Ryan Walsh and Kerrin McCadden.

RYAN WALSH is the author of the chapbooks Reckoner (Chickadee Chaps & Broads) and The Sinks (Midwest Writing Center Press and winner of the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest). His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Ecotone; FIELD; Forklift, Ohio; Narrative, and elsewhere. Originally from West Virginia, Ryan Walsh works at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and lives in Burlington.

KERRIN McCADDEN is the author of Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (winner of the 2013 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by David St. John, and current finalist for The Vermont Book Award). She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, The Frost Place, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, and The Vermont Arts Endowment Fund. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Verse Daily, and have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, and Rattle. She holds an MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Montpelier High School and lives in Plainfield, Vermont.

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