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Join the Green Mountain Writers Group every Friday at the Innovation Café in Burlington for Lunch with the Poets. Share poetry, enjoy lunch, and connect with Vermont’s creative community.
From Corporate Sales to Creative Writing One of the pleasures of running a writing community is watching writers develop their craft over time. We see people arrive with an idea, a journal, a few poems, or the beginnings of a manuscript, and then gradually grow into authors. That has been the case with Ishita Nigam, […]
I once heard Spike Lee talk to a room full of screenwriters about how to begin building a story. He didn’t start with structure or theme. He started with something much simpler. “Go to Staples,” he said, “or any office supply store, and buy a stack of three-by-five index cards.” Keep them handy. Every time […]
I have a bonsai growing in my bedroom. It is eleven inches tall, and it may be decades old. I don’t know exactly how old. What I do know is that it does not grow on its own terms. Not entirely. I water it. I turn it toward the light. I prune it. I decide […]
A Green Mountain Writers feature for those who missed our recent Monday Morning Poetry Session… Robert Frost is often introduced as Vermont’s beloved poet laureate, a gentle observer of woods, stone walls, and snowy evenings. We recite his lines in school, quote him on calendars, and imagine him walking country lanes with a notebook in […]