Poetry is what’s there on the page. Traditional understanding can be secondary without diminishing poetry. Poetry can make sense by appearing to make sense, appearing as if it should make sense, tantalizing us to attempt to transcend a sensation of…
On the afternoon of Saturday, June 18 we will meet outside under a tent at Saint Michael’s College in remembrance of Will Marquess. Service: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pmLight refreshments: 3:15 – 4:30 pmSaint Michael’s College library lawn Emily says, “If you…
Who are the main characters? How would you describe them to another person? At what point in the story did you start to care about them? At what point did you feel that you either wanted to continue (or stop)…
Substack is a subscription newsletter service popular among independent journalists and writers. Feeling obligated to lead by example, I took the leap and launched my own: “Antediluvian Attitudes a Substack by a person who lived before the Flood.” Launched in 2017, this…
In late May 2022, we will begin hosting a variety of in-person writers’ events here at the lodge in the heart of Underhill Center, Vermont. We are restoring a former hunting lodge on approximately an acre of land located along…
There is a wide gap between poetic words on a page and poetry read aloud. The Poetry & Performance Workshops, led by Darlene L. Witte, work to bridge that gap. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month, she…
I began writing poetry when I was about 12 years old. Instinctively, from the beginning, I consciously tried to shape the flow of my words to match a sound I heard within, a vibration. I did not know what that inner sound was until…
Hook Stone woke in the rear bedroom of his deer camp and saw a halo of white light on his bedroom ceiling. He blinked a few times and yes, a halo was still up there. He blinked some more, trying…
“You don’t know how lucky you are to live here, to grow up with all this,” my mother would say, sometimes with a theatrical gesture toward the lake, the island, and the mountains. “Don’t ever take it for granted,” she…
