You’re invited to the
fourth (almost) annual Poetry & Pie !
featuring
✶ Readings by Susan Barba,
Sue D. Burton, and
Sara London ✶
✶ Q&A with the poets ✶
✶ Community open mic ✶
and
✶ Poet-for-hire
Taylor Mardis Katz ✶
✶ Books for sale by
Still North Books & Bar ✶
✶ Poetry and Pie pencil souvenirs ✶
✶ Our famous used book table ✶
✶ Pie Pie Pie! ✶
THE DETAILS
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When: Saturday, July 16, 2022, 3:00 to 5:00 pm (doors open at 2:30)
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Open mic: If you’d like to read, sign up when you register. Please plan on reading one original, non-epic length poem. The first 10 people to sign up for the open mic are guaranteed a spot.
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Where: Thetford Center Community Building, 3923 Rte 113, Thetford Center, Vermont (map and directions)
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Cost: Sliding scale donation of $5 to $10, includes readings, pie (savory, sweet, with vegan and gluten-free options) and a souvenir pencil. Please bring exact change if possible. Custom poems by Taylor are offered on a sliding sale starting at $20.
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COVID protocol: This is a largely indoor event. We’ll have windows and doors open, and there is plenty of space outside for eating and chatting (weather permitting). Please bring proof of full vaccination (completion of primary vaccination series). Masks must be worn by everyone inside the building except for the reading poet. There are no exceptions. Thank you so much for understanding and helping to make this a safe event!
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RSVSP: Seats are limited to 40! You can reserve a maximum of two seats. To reserve your seat please use the form at the bottom of this page.
THE POETS
Susan Barba is the author of geode (2020), which was a finalist for both the Massachusetts Book Awards and the New England Book Awards, and Fair Sun (2017), which was awarded the Anahid Literary Prize from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, Raritan, and elsewhere, and her poetry has been translated into German, Armenian, Romanian, and Swedish. She works as a senior editor for New York Review Books.
>> Watch Susan read from Geode as a part of the Social Distance Reading Series , a project of The Vermont School and Green Mountains Review
Sue D. Burton’s work includes the book-length poem Little Steel (Fomite Press) and BOX, selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize. BOX, a finalist for the 2019 Vermont Book Award, was awarded Silver in the 2018 Foreword INDIES Poetry Book of the Year. Recent poetry appears in Barrow Street, Bennington Review, and the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. She apprenticeship-trained at the Vermont Women’s Health Center and worked as a Physician Assistant for over twenty-five years. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.
>> Watch Sue read “All in All, Another Productive Day in the Thicket of Disappointment” at the Fletcher Free Library
Sara London is the author of Upkeep (winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Motton Book Prize) and The Tyranny of Milk, both published by Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Poetry East, The Common, Quarterly West, the Poetry Daily anthology, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College, and is the poetry editor at The Woven Tale Press.
>> Watch Sara read from her book The Tyranny of Milk as a part of the Collected Poets Series
Our heartfelt thanks to…
Still North Books & Bar is a bookstore, bar, and café in downtown Hanover, New Hampshire, just two blocks from Dartmouth’s campus. In addition to a curated selection of books, they offer craft beer, a diverse wine list, the best coffee in Hanover (in their biased opinion), and a menu of light bites highlighting local, seasonal ingredients where possible and made entirely in-house, down to their freshly baked bread. Their hobbies include: jigsaw puzzles, curling up in cozy spaces with a book and a mug of wine, and meeting with friends over coffee, so they made a space for our entire community to do just that! ✶
Hedgerow Flowers, in Hartland, Vermont, has generously provided flowers for Literary North events since the very beginning. We are always bowled over by Sarah White’s stunning arrangements, which make creative use of whatever is local and currently blooming at her tiny flower farm. This year’s arrangements will be no exception. ✶
Taylor Mardis Katz is a poet and farmer living in rural Vermont. With her partner, she runs Free Verse Farm, an herb farm & apothecary with a poetry backbone. She is also a marketing freelancer, an ordained minister, a freelance writer and editor, and a poet for hire who has joined us since the very first Poetry and Pie. During the afternoon, you can commission a custom poem from Taylor. Poems are offered on a sliding scale basis, and will be written on a portable Remington typewriter. This one-of-a-kind poetry artifact will be yours to keep as a remembrance of all the poetry that summer in Vermont has to offer. ✶
Our pie bakers include many of our dear friends and family members. They show up every year with the most delicious home-made creations. Poetry & Pie would only be half as good without their generosity and talent. ✶