With limbs reaching out, does the hemlock see itself in the lake’s mirror? In her snug small nest, does the chipping sparrow dream about her children? On his morning walk, does the black bear praise the sun for warming his fur? SURELY.
Editorial
“Ash Bucket,” a VerseVillage poem
March thaw revealed the ash bucket’s cinders strewn into my daughter’s rock garden, dead coals squashing tender moss, staining her cherished hens and chicks. Had I carried the bucket three steps further, set it on the barn’s cement ramp: none of this damage, no repair needed. Ahead lies April’s tedious[Read More…]
Woodsmoke by Julie Atwood
All-ages poetry slam, April 25
HARDWICK – Saturday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m., VerseVillage and the Jeudevine Memorial Library invite poets and poem performers an all-ages, all-acoustic poetry slam in the Parker Ladd Community Room at the Jeudevine Memorial Library in Hardwick. Poets take the stage for up to five minutes to be judged to win[Read More…]
The timeless pastoral: reading, reception, April 18
GREENBSORO – The Highland Center for the Arts will present “Vermont Pastoral,” on Saturday, April 18, from 4 to 7 p.m., with a paired reading and artists’ reception. The “Salt, Stone & Stars: exhibit features two literary pastoral works, “The Salt Stones: by Helen Whybrow and “The Serpent of Stars,” translated by Jody Gladding. “Seasons[Read More…]
Heller’s World
Faux Gnus: The latest executive odors (sic.) by President-for-Life Trumpf
#110,983 The new billion-dollar bill will have my portrait on the front of it and pictures of Mar-a-Lago on the reverse. #795,024 There will be an automatic Presidential Pardon for any ICE officer who is seriously injured or kills a protester. #371,967 Make Venezuela the 61st State. #905,283 Statistics on[Read More…]
Heller’s World
With no hint of irony
To the editor: Town meeting can be described in many ways, most of them positive. But don’t call it a representational democracy. In Paul Fixx’s editorial in last week’s Hardwick Gazette, he describes Hardwick’s town meeting as a “spirited example of representational democracy,” and with no hint of irony, in[Read More…]
Why does Vermont make it difficult to keep strangers off our land?
To the editor: There’s a lot of talk right now about landowner rights being violated and government overreach, but there’s a bill, H.723, now before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy that would update Vermont’s land posting laws, the rules governing how landowners notify the public that their property is off-limits to[Read More…]
Heller’s World
Nonviolent protest against unconstitutional actions
To the editor: If you participated in the March 2026 No Kings Day event, thank you. It was the largest day of protest in American history. We are building to the 3.5% of our nation’s population actively engaged in nonviolent protest against the unconstitutional actions of the Trump administration. Research[Read More…]
