Bill Mares: The Land of Milk and Honey

Kim Greenwood: The Land of Milk and Honey

Online programming is made possible thanks to the generosity of our community. Please consider contributing to our NBNC Resiliency Fund today

Contact: North Branch Nature Center

The Space On Main is hosting its first Silent Reading Party. Make yourself a snack, pour yourself a drink, and read whatever you feel like reading silently to yourself. Relax as musicians Don Sinclair and Jenn Grossi (D&J Music, Summer Street Music) delight our ears with acoustic music. It's an excellent excuse for you to make time for you, take a break from your day-to-day, and to feel a little less lonely while inside the comfort of your own home.

Cost: This event is by donation. Proceeds will be split between The Space On Main and our guest musicians. Tips to the musicians are encouraged.

Registration: Register online. Connection information and tip/donation links will be available upon registration.

Contact: The Space on Main

Join us for the inaugural Still Queer reading, featuring Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life (Riverhead, 2020). An intimate novel set in a Midwestern university town, Real Life is a "sophisticated character study of someone squaring self-preservation with a duty to tolerate people who threaten it" (The New Yorker). Brandon will be joined in conversation by Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and co-curator of the series with Dustin Schell.

Cost: Tickets available free of charge. Donations up to $10 will be accepted. Proceeds will be split between covering event costs and the Dartmouth Student Emergency Relief Fund. Buy a copy of Real Life through Still North Books & Bar to receive a signed, limited edition bookplate.

Registration: Register online.

Contact: Still North Books & Bar

Join the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing & Publishing Students for an online reading.

To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 (646) 876-9923. Meeting ID# 221 570 285

Contact: VCFA

Mary Norris: Greek to Me

To join this event, get comfy at home with your computer (with webcam activated), smartphone, or tablet. Click this link: https://zoom.us/j/9537813547 and then join with video.

Contact: The Northshire Bookstore

Jessica Anthony: Enter the Aardvark

Registration: To attend this Zoom event, please register online. Please note that registration serves only to deter casual zoom-bombers, and does not guarantee a spot if the meeting reaches capacity (100). The software fills the meeting room based on time of arrival, not registration date.

Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore

Suddenly finding the time and energy to work on the creative projects you’ve been meaning to get to? Join Sarah Smith from Dartmouth Library’s Book Arts Workshop for the chance to create with others via Zoom. From working on a book arts project to trying your hand at upholstery, extreme baking, or learning ukulele, everyone is welcome to join, show work in progress, and get ideas! Although we can’t taste or touch what each other is making right now, we can admire and talk about it!

Registration: Join us on Zoom.

Contact: Dartmouth College

Slam Free Or Die - Poetry Open Mic & Slam moves its popular open mic poetry series to digital space! We are hosting a Google Meeting, accessible by sharable link that we will post here when the room opens.

FEATURING Maya Williams & Myles Bullen!

The Google Meeting Room will open at 7:40 pm, and the open mic will commence from 8:00 to 10 pm. Bring your poems, your pajamas, or your Thursday night show looks, and let's share our art in the midst of these rough times!

Registration: Register to read online.

Contact: Slam Free

Michael Zapata: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

To join this event, get comfy at home with your computer (with webcam activated), smartphone, or tablet. Click this link: https://zoom.us/j/9537813547 and then join with video.

Contact: The Northshire Bookstore

The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth hosts an online panel discussion from contributing authors to the new book, Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet. The panels will be co-moderated by Philippe Tortell, Earth 2020 editor and professor at the University of British Columbia, and Elizabeth Wilson, director of the Irving Institute and professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

Participating authors:

• Robert Socolow, Princeton University

• Candis Callison, University of British Columbia

• Janet G. Hering, ETH and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

• Alice Gorman, Flinders University

The book is available for free download.

Registration: Register to attend this free Zoom event.

Contact: Dartmouth College

Wyn Cooper: Mars Poetica

Robert Cording: Without My Asking

The Hoot features two readers and an open mic immediately following. Bring a poem and be ready to read. Open mic participants may read one poem and be no longer than three minutes.

Registration: The Hoot is moving to Zoom. To sign up to attend, send an email to and include “Zoom Hoot” in the subject line. Register to attend by May 5. Register to be an open mic reader by May 3.

Contact: Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program

Lucy Terry Prince was born in Africa, where she was kidnapped by slave traders and transported to Rhode Island. While still enslaved in 1746, she wrote “Bars Fight,” the oldest known poem in the United States written by an African American. Prince later regained her freedom and moved to Vermont with her husband, Abijah Prince, and fought for her family’s land rights all the way to the highest court in Vermont.

In this presentation, Shanta Lee Gander illustrates Prince’s importance as a poet and orator, and as one unafraid to fight for her rights within the landscape of early Vermont, New England, and America. Gander will also perform Lucy’s only surviving poem, “Bars Fight.”

Shanta Lee Gander is one of the managing editors of Mount Island, a small press dedicated to rural LGBTQ+ and POC voices/artists.

Registration: This presentation will be held in Zoom meeting format. To attend, please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Contact: Vermont Humanities Council

Katherine Alford and Kathy Gunst: Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices

Registration: This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the event in advance.

Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore

Trinie Dalton: Destroy Bad Thoughts Not Your Own

Yi Shun Lai: Not a Self-Help Book

Carvell Wallace: The Sixth Man

The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 (646) 876-9923. The meeting ID is 687-912-190.

Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts

Hartland Community Arts presents the Virtual Hartland Poetry Fest 2020, featuring James Crews, Hatsy McGraw, Rena J. Mosteirin, April Ossmann, and Ruth Antoinette Rodriguez.

Celebrate National Poetry Month and Poem-in-your-Pocket Day as you listen to local poets read and virtually meet poetry lovers from the community.

At the end of this Zoom event we will open up the mics for questions.

Registration: Please email by April 29 to receive the Zoom ID/password.

Contact: Literary North

Wesley McNair: Dwellers in the House of the Lord

Note: At 6:00 pm on April 29, Gibson’s will post a link to special video reading that Wesley McNair has crated specially for Gibson’s Bookstore. For more information, please visit the event page on the Gibson’s website.

Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore

Sandell Morse joins Rebecca Rule in conversation to discuss Sandell's new book, The Sprial Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II, one woman’s rediscovery of identity and faith.

Note: This event will be held via a Zoom meeting. For more information and the Zoom link, please visit the event page on the Gibson’s website.

Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore

Still North Books & Bar and Literary North present our first joint Poetry Open Mic event!

This Zoom event will feature readings by Laura Jean Binkley, Vievee Francis, Kristin Maffei, Rena J. Mosteirin, April Ossmann, and YOU!

Registration: To participate as a listener and/or reader, sign up by Friday, April 24. We’ll send the Zoom link to you that Friday.

Contact: Literary North

In these days of social distancing and great uncertainty, poetry can be grounding and give us a moment to reflect on life’s troubles and joys. For National Poetry Month, Mitch Wertlieb hosts a virtual reading and interview with Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Kerrin McCadden, and Elizabeth Powell.

You can watch this event in an online stream wherever you’re sheltering in.

Registration: The event is free to join, but please register to receive a link to view.

Contact: Vermont Public Radio

Dionne Searcey: In Pursuit of Dangerous Women

This event will be live-streamed online. On Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. click here to join the Zoom talk.

Contact: Brattleboro Museum and Art Center

Join Liz Horan of Feral Journal of Poetry and Art and the Thetford Libraries for a Poetry Open Mic to celebrate National Poetry Month. Read a poem or two—your own or a favorite by another poet—in a supportive atmosphere!

Open to teens and adults but no children, please, because poems may have mature language.

Registration: To get more info and sign up please email .

Contact: Thetford Libraries

TaraShea Nesbit: Beheld

Kim Van Alkemade: Bachelor Girl

To join this event, get comfy at home with your computer (with webcam activated), smartphone, or tablet. Click this link: https://zoom.us/j/9537813547 and then join with video.

Contact: The Northshire Bookstore

Join this webinar event to discuss the use of antifascist language across many cultures and societies.

Politicians, pundits, journalists, and many academics in the Anglophone and not only Anglophone West tend to discuss and encourage political (i.e., public) language on monolingual terms. The default is to speak of "political language" in the singular and to marshal the language of a given country's white majority as the unquestioned default. Little could be more inequitable and disenfranchising when most societies have long been multilingual because of Indigenous survivance and migration.

Registration: Learn more at the Symposium website.

Contact: Leslie Center for the Humanities

Gus Speth: What We Have Instead

Edward Cameron

We are hosting a special Earth Day edition of Northshire Live with environmentalist legend Gus Speth and our good friend Edward Cameron!

To join this event, get comfy at home with your computer (with webcam activated), smartphone, or tablet. Click this link: https://zoom.us/j/9537813547 and then join with video.

Please Note:  Because of security concerns with Zoom, Northshire Live events require a password.  Follow this link to sign up for either the "Author Event Reminders Manchester" or "Author Event Reminders Saratoga" email newsletter & receive the weekly password and news of what's coming up.  We will be sending out the weekly password on Mondays, with reminders the day of each event. If you do not get your newsletter, you may email us at [email protected] to receive the password.

Contact: Northshire Bookstore

Janice Shade: Moving Mountains: The Power of Main Street Americans to Change our Economy

Registration: This event is free and open to all! Please register with Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive a Zoom invite.

Contact: Phoenix Books

Join us for an online reading for poetry and prose inspired by the themes of CONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENT INDEPENDENCE – INDEPENDENT INTERDEPENDENCE.

We welcome readers and listeners from far and wide, from Vermont and anywhere in the world!

Submission deadline: To participate as a reader, please submit your work by April 17 to . Visit https://poartry.org/voicing-art/ for more information.

Note: To attend this event, launch the Zoom meeting by 1:50 pm on April 18.

Contact:

David Allen Sibley: What It's Like to Be a Bird

Note: This event will be held via a Zoom meeting. For more information and the Zoom link, please visit the event page on the Gibson’s website.

Contact: Gibson's Bookstore

Debotri Dhar: A Flute Called Radha

Ann Cardinal: Five Midnights

Sean Prentiss: Crosscut

The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. To attend the event, go to the VCFA Zoom room. To join by phone, call +1 646 876 9923

Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts

Live storytelling at the AVA Gallery and Art Center. The evening’s theme, “The Worst Advice,” will be brought to life as individuals share personal accounts of their experiences.

Note: This event was originally scheduled to happen on March 12, 2020. Anyone who purchased tickets for the March 12th date has a ticket for the next live Mudroom (date to be determined) as well as the virtual Mudroom on April 16. The link to the online Mudroom event will automatically be emailed to you. If you purchased guest tickets, simply forward the link to anyone in a different household.

Cost: By donation. If you do not have a ticket, visit the Mudroom page anytime after 6:00 pm on April 16 for the link.

Contact: AVA Gallery

David Moloney: Barker House

Note: This event will be held via a Zoom meeting. For more information and the Zoom link, please visit the event page on the Gibson’s website.

Contact: Gibson’s Bookstore