GREENSBORO – The Poetry Society of Vermont is holding its summer poetry festival. “Gathering Voices,” at the Highland Center for the Arts, Saturday August 8.
Featured presenters, Joseph Bruchac and his son Jesse Bruchac, will share indigenous music with drum and flutes and storytelling mixed with their own poetry in Abenaki and English. An enrolled member of the Nulhegan Abenaki nation, Joseph Bruchac has authored more than 180 books. Over the past 60 years, his poems have appeared in more than 1,000 magazines and anthologies and been translated into 20 languages. Jesse Bowman Bruchac is a writer, language teacher, and cultural educator based in the Adirondack region of New York. He serves as director of the Middlebury School of Abenaki.
Poets from all over Vermont will read at two open mic sessions, along with programs from the Vermont poetry in prisons project, the New England Poetry Club, Vermont and Connecticut Youth Poet Laureates, and local musicians.
Visitors can try their hand at letterpress printing with the Revolutionary Press of New Haven, and participate in a community poem and poetry games with The Paper Poet Bianca Zanella of Rutland.
The festival is free and open to the public. For more information at poetrysocietyofvermont.org. Lunch can be pre-ordered from Highland Center for the Arts at highlandartsvt.org/calendar. The Highland Center is mobility-accessible.
