Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Next up! Please come welcome Vermont poets JULIA SHIPLEY, of Craftsbury, and MAJOR JACKSON, of South Burlington, to the Old West Church for one vibrant hour of poetry unplugged. This is the second of our 3-Sundays-at-3-pm VERVE in Verse poetry reading series for September. (See poets' Bios below.)
After the readings, wend your way down the road to the Kent Museum for a reception amid the spectacular VERVE: Art & Energy visual art exhibit, filled with color, creativity, and life, and meet the poets, who will happily sign copies of their books (those you already own or those available for sale at the Kent throughout the exhibit). [Cash or check.]
JULIA SHIPLEY is the author of Adam’s Mark (named a Best Book of 2014 by the Boston Globe) and The Academy of Hay (winner of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize), as well as several chapbooks: One Ton Crumb (CC&B, 2014), First Do No Harm (Honeybee Press, 2014), Planet Jr. (Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment /Iowa State University, 2012), and Herd (Sheltering Pines Press, 2010). Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in Gettysburg Review, FIELD, North American Review, Orion, and Poetry. She lives in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
MAJOR JACKSON is the author of four books of poetry including Roll Deep, Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn (which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and a creative arts fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House, and his work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.
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