MONTPELIER — The Night series will kick off Montpelier’s PoetCity celebration in honor of National Poetry Month with The Laureates Three on Wednesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. The program features three Northern New England poets laureate, Bianca Stone of Vermont, Jennifer Militello of New Hampshire and Julia Bouwsma of Maine.
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Julia Bouwsma serves as poet laureate of Maine. She is the author of three poetry collections, “Midden,” “Work by Bloodlight” and the forthcoming “Death Fluorescence.” She lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher and small-town librarian.
Jennefer Militello serves as poet laureate of New Hampshire. She is a poet memoirist, the author of six books and a forthcoming hybrid collection, “Identifying the Pathogen.” She has taught at Brown, U-Mass, Rhode Island School of Design and currently directs and teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Bianca Stone serves as poet laureate of Vermont. She is the author of five books, including the 2022 Vermont Book Award-winning poetry collection, “What Is Otherwise Infinite.” She co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House, where she teaches creative writing and hosts the Ode and Psyche podcast.
PoemCity, the month-long city-wide observance coordinated by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library for the annual celebration of National Poetry Month each April, started in 2010, PoemCity displays poems by Vermonters in storefront windows in downtown Montpelier and organizes a community calendar of poetry events for the month.
For additional questions, contact Vermont State Curator David Schutz at [email protected], or call (802) 279-5558.
