Get your Poetry Fix in Montpelior This Friday!

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Vermont College of Fine Arts will be hosting a reading on Friday, April 22, 4-6 p.m.

 

Readings by Vermont poets Dave Cavanagh, Kerrin McCadden, Baron Wormser and Montpelier High Schools poets Maggie Kinzel and Sandra Markowitz will be included.  The reading is from 4:00-5:00, in the College Hall Chapel, and it will be followed by a reception/meet-the-author session in the Wood Art Gallery with food and beverages; the VCFA bookstore will also be open during this time and author books available. 

 

David Cavanagh’s books of poetry include The Middleman (2003) and Falling Body (2009), both published by Salmon Poetry of Ireland.  His poems have also appeared in chapbooks, anthologies, and journals in Canada, Ireland, the U.K., and the U.S.  He lives in Burlington and works for Johnson State College as an associate dean with the External Degree Program.

 

Maggie Kinzel is an artist, musician, writer, performer, and Boston-bound high school senior. Published poet in "Young Writers Anthology 2", "American Library of Poetry--The Gold Edition", and member of Hungry Rat Revue. She runs her own business for portrait photography and lives in a caffeine buzzed world of bright colors and biggest city dreams. She likes to focus on extensive imagery of the untouched, and she currently obsesses over vertebrae and the layers to the sky.

 

Sandra Markowitz has been writing poems since she was eight, and is now a senior at Montpelier High School. She went to The New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf, and also enjoys drawing, reading, and cooking dumplings. 

 

Kerrin McCadden’s poems have recently appeared or will soon in American Poetry Review, Failbetter, Hunger Mountain, RATTLE, Poet Lore, Pank and elsewhere.  She was a finalist for the 2010 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist for the "Discovery"/Boston Review 2010 Poetry Contest, the 2010 Ralph Nading Hill Award and the 2009 RATTLE Poetry Prize. She teaches creative writing and literature at Montpelier High School and is on the poetry faculty at The New England Young Writers' Conference at Bread Loaf. She lives in Plainfield, Vermont.

 

Baron Wormser is the author of eleven books including The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid and co-author of two books about teaching poetry. His most recent volume of poetry, Impenitent Notes, was published in March 2011. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 he served as poet laureate of Maine.