Readings

Past Events

Literary Evening Vermont Book Awards
Readings and Discussion with free wine tasting at The Local
Camp Meade Planetary Art Institure
Friday 4-7PM April 18th, 2025

Cultivating Voices Live Poetry
Reading with Cáit O’Neill McCullagh, Kashiana Singh, Megha Sood
Remote, On Zoom
Sunday 3-4:30 PM March 9th, 2025
Register here

The Green Mountain Book Festival
Reading with Neil Shepard, Stephen Cramer and Toussaint St. Negritude
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT
Saturday November 2, 2024 12:30PM

Norwich Bookstore
Reading with Stephen Cramer
291 Main Street Norwich, VT
Saturday October 26, 2024 2-3PM

Unlocking the Heart
Reading with James Crews, Julie Cadawalladar Staub and Patricia Fontaine
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center Burlington, VT
Thursday October 10, 2024 6-8PM

Words in the Woods Poetry Event
Outdoor reading sponsored by Vermont Humanities and State Parks
Mount Philo State Park, Charlotte, VT
Sunday July 21st, 2024 at 11a

Some Say Sappho
Zoom Reading with Headmistress Press poets Anne Myles, Elizabeth Wilson, Annie Christian and Samantha Pious
Sunday June 27, 2024 at 3PM ET

Book Launch Party for LOSS AND ITS ANTONYM
Reading, book signing, cash bar, open to the public, please come
Burlington City Arts, Church Street, Burlington, VT
Friday May 31, 2024 6-8pm

Poets House – Portals, Failures, and Antonyms: Triple Launch Celebration
with with Tracy Fuad and Neil Shepard
Remote https://poetshouse.org/event/fuad-prine-shepard/
Saturday May 4, 2024 2-3pm

PoemCity 2024 Seen and Unseen: Poets in Conversation
with Diana Whitney, Bianca Stone, Elizabeth Powell and Karin Gottshall
Unitarian Church, Montpelier, VT
Sunday April 7, 2024 3PM

PoemCity 2023 LGBTQ Reading
Kellogg-Hubbard Library
Main Street, Montpelier, VT
Monday April 10, 2023 6PM

Spring Poetry Reading with poet Stephen Cramer
Presented by St. Albans Writers Club
Hard’Ack Recreation Area St. Albans, VT
Wednesday April 27, 2022 6:30-8:30PM

Sundog Poetry Art Music Poetry Picnic
Richmond Volunteers Green at the Band Shell with artist Evie Lovett, and musicians Yasi Zeichner and Duncan Yandell
Sunday September 12, 2021 at 4pm

Queer Home CookOUT
Reading sponsored by Foglifter Press
Pride Center Vermont, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington, VT
Monday August 9, 2021 6:30PM

PoemCity 2021
Event for Release of YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: POEMS FOR GIRLS BECOMING THEMSELVES
with Diana Whitney, Bianca Stone and Rage Hezekiah
Friday April 30th, 2021

Poems That Will Help Us Through
With poets featured in the 2020 Provincetown Arts Magazine
Remote, Hosted by Major Jackson on Zoom
Tuesday August 25th, 2020 6pm to 7:30pm

Ruth Stone Foundation Reading Series
Reading with Timothy Carter, Christopher Kondrich and Ukamaka Olisakwe
Wishbone Collective in Winooski, VT
Saturday October 12th, 2019 at 7pm

Poets with Pride
Celebrating Pride Week 2019 Reading with Frances Cannon and others
Light Club at the Lamp Shop Burlington, Vermont
Monday September 2nd, 2019 at 7pm

Page Burner Reading at Waking Windows Winooski
Saturday May 4, 2019 12noon

Visiting Writer/ Public Reading
Vermont Artist Week at Vermont Studio Center
Johnson, Vermont
Tuesday April 30, 2019

PoemCity 2019 Launch of Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection
Group reading from the anthology edited by poet James Crews
Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, Vermont
Tuesday April 16th, 2019 at 7pm

LGBTQ Poets Speak – A PoemCity Reading
Group reading including Linda Quinlan, J Turk and Toussant
Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vermont
Saturday April 6th, 2019 at 12noon

Women and Poetry Night at the Lit Club
Group reading with Bianca Stone, Frances Cannon, and Didi Jackson
Lit Club at the Lamp Shop Burlington, Vermont
Monday February 4th, 2019 at 7pm

Ruth Stone Foundation Silent Auction and Potluck
Honoring the legacy of Ruth Stone’s poetry and reading with Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord and Didi Jackson at the Blueberry Hill Inn
Saturday October 20th, 2018 4:30 – 8pm

New Hampshire Poetry Fest 2018
See What You Miss By Being Dead: The Modern Elegy and the Alternative Landscape of Grief panel discussion with Dara Wier, Bianca Stone, and Ben Pease
Saturday September 15, 2018

Bookstock
The Green Mountain Festival of Words
Woodstock, Vermont
Friday July 27, 2018

Bear Pond Books PoemCity 2018
with Bianca Stone, reading from her newest book, The Mobius Strip Club of Grief at Bear Pond Books 77 Main St., Montpelier, Vermont
Tuesday April 17, 2018 7pm

Vegan Verses at Pingala Cafe
with Lizzy Fox
Tuesday December 5, 2017 at 7pm

Brattleboro Literary Festival
Vermont Voices with April Ossmann
Brooks Library Upstairs
Sunday October 15, 2017 at 10am

Words Out Loud, Calais, VT
with James Crews
Sunday September 24, 2017 3pm

Vermont Book Award Gala
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
Saturday September 23, 2017 6pm

Outspoken: Poets with Pride at the Lit Club
with Eve Alexandra and others, including open mic
Monday September 4, 2017 at 7pm

Lit Club at the Lamp Shop, Burlington VT
with Ben Aleshire launching his book Currency
Monday July 31, 2017 at 8pm

The Written Word Out Loud – Art on Main, Bristol VT
with Karin Gottshall
Friday July 21, 2017 at 6:30 – 8pm

Book Launch: Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry
with Sydney Lea and Chard deNiord Kellogg- Hubbard Library Monpelier, VT
Wednesday May 24, 2017 at 7pm

Page Burner Reading at Waking Windows Winooski
Saturday May 6, 2017 12noon

PoemCity Montpelier, Vermont
Group reading with Elizabeth Powell, Kerrin McCadden, Diana Whitney, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson and Karla Van Vliet at VCFA, Thursday April 27, 2017

Lit Club at the Lamp Shop
Group reading with Bill Stratton, Eve Alexandra, Emilie Stigliani, Major Jackson, Penelope Cray, Didi Jackson, Maria Hummel and Jari Chevalier Monday April 24, 2017 8pm

Middlebury College Tuesday November 29, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Bloom Reading Series
Hudson View Gardens, NYC with Vi Khi Nao and Molly Rose Quinn
Sunday November 13 at 5pm

Porter Square Books
Cambridge, MA
with poet Eleanor Levine
Friday October 7 at 7pm

Poets with Pride Lit Club at the Lamp Shop
Celebrating Pride Week 2016
Reading with Eve Alexandra, Ian Hemley, B Freas, and Chris Vacarro
Monday September 5 at 8pm

Art Market Provincetown
with poet Jan Freeman
Wednesday August 24th at 7pm

Word Portland
Reading with Stowell Watters and Tara Haskell
LFK 188 State Street Portland
Monday August 1 at 9pm

Mud Season Review Launch Party
with Robin McLean, Sean Prentiss, and Ralph Culver
Hotel Vermont, Burlington, VT
Saturday May 7 at 7pm

Northshire Books
with poet Karin Gottshall
Manchester, Vermont
Saturday April 30 at 7pm

PoemCity
Reading with Kerrin McCadden, Kristin Fogdall, Emilie Stigliani, and Mary Elder Jacobsen
Down Home Kitchen, Montpelier, VT
Monday, April 25 at 7pm

Celebrating National Poetry Month
Reading with Karin Gottshall and Kerrin McCadden
Phoenix Books Burlington
Saturday, April 9th at 4pm

Lit Club at the Lamp Shop
Reading with Eve Alexandra, Penelope Cray
12 N Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT
Monday, February 29 at 8pm

Painted Word Poetry Series
Fleming Museum
6pm February 24, 2016

Steel Book Launch
Burlington City Arts January 29, 2016