Spend a week at “intensive poetry camp” (July 5 to 10) with writers who are deeply committed to learning more about the craft of writing poetry. The Frost Place Poetry Conference offers daily workshops, classes, lectures, writing, and revising time in a supportive and dynamic environment. The 2020 conference will take place online. This year’s teaching faculty includes Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Ross White, Deborah Paradez, Rajiv Mohabir, and Afaa M. Weaver.

Cost: Full conference package rate: $495. Discount rate for seniors, health care workers, first responders, and students currently enrolled in an MFA program: $425

Registration: Register online by June 25.

Contact: The Frost Place

You are invited to a poetry pick-me-up performance with pop! People want poems more than ever during this uncertain time, so we welcome you to RSVP for another virtual pandemic poetry party. We will find comfort in each other's words, release our stress and emotional weight, and celebrate connection and gratitude. Bring your best metaphoric firework of a verse to share, or just come to listen to the show. We'll see you on Zoom!

Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature.

About The Event Host: Bianca Amira Zanella is a Vermont-based performance poet, paper artist, and events coordinator, as well as the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland. Zanella’s poems have most recently appeared in The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded “Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry,” co-producing this series alongside Michael Kingsbury around Rutland County. In 2020, Bianca founded and is the owner of The Paper Poet, offering healing poetic experiences.

This event is free and open to all!

Please register with Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive a Zoom invite.

Contact: Phoenix Books

Visual art meets the written word as poets share original pieces penned in response to works by 1918 flu pandemic-era artists Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt.

Registration: Register online to receive the Zoom link.

Contact: The Poartry Project

Join a small community of people at the historic Robert Frost Farm learning, reading and writing formal poetry with contemporary award-winning poets in an intimate workshop environment. Choose your focus from a series of offerings designed to provide tools for beginning poets as well as perfect the mastery of published poets.

Keynote address by Rachel Hadas. This year’s instructors include Daniel Brown, Caitlin Doyle, Midge Goldberg, A. M. Juster, and Alfred Nicol.

The 2020 conference begins on Friday, June 19 and continues through Sunday, June 21.

Cost: $325, includes all instruction and meals (including two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners).

Registration: Register online or by mail

Contact: The Frost Farm

Sponsored by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.

Registration: To participate in this event, please sign up by contacting Jimmy Pappas at .

Contact: Poetry Society of New Hampshire

Patent Attorney, Rebecca Christon, will present the basics of US copyright law, with a few mentions of international law for points that might be relevant to US writers. She will also cover some recommended best practices and a few potentially sticky situations to be sufficiently aware of to avoid.

Cost: Free for NHWP members

Registration: Register online.

Contact: New Hampshire Writers’ Project

Bertha Rogers: Wild, Again

Kate Hanson Foster: Mid Drift

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.

Contact: Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program

Join Liz Horan of Feral Journal of Poetry and Art and the Thetford Libraries for a Poetry Open Mic. 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 information and sign up, please email .

Contact: Thetford Libraries

Due to COVID-19, the annual undergraduate creative writing awards have moved online. Over 90 students submitted their work for prizes in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction which will be judged by Carlos Andrés Goméz, author of the poetry collection Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020), the chapbook Hijito (Platypus Press, 2019), and the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood (Penguin Random House, 2012).

Prize winners will be announced on the Department of English and Creative Writing website on Thursday, May 21, 2020. The department would like to congratulate all of the students who entered their work during this challenging time.

Contact: Dartmouth College

Sponsored by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire.

Registration: To participate in this event, please sign up by contacting Jimmy Pappas at .

Contact: Poetry Society of New Hampshire

Join Vermont filmmaker Nora Jacobson for an online screening of her documentary work-in-progress on the life and art of Vermont poet Ruth Stone, followed by audience feedback.

Registration: RSVP to receive a Zoom link.

Contact: White River Indie Film

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

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

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

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

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

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:

Professor Colleen Randall and her husband, Jeff Friedman, poet and lecturer in English at Keene State College, will speak about their partnership and how their relationship and artistic dialogue inflects their work.

Registration: Free, but registration is required.

Contact: Hood Museum of Art

Whether you’re new to Scrivener or have been using it since your very first draft, one of the most intimidating aspects can be how to approach revision. How do you keep track of previous drafts? How do you tackle huge structural reorganizations without losing your mind? How do you balance the big picture of your revision with the grunt work of getting it done? We’ll answer all these questions and more in this class.

In this one-hour webinar, you’ll be introduced to a series of tools you can use to make the revision process less intimidating. We’ll also discuss ways to keep track of the revision process itself, using tools like Status, Icons, and Labels to help you make note of revisions you’ve completed, and identify what you have left to do. You’ll come out of the class with an expanded toolkit for how to use Scrivener when revising, and your own revision plan.

This class is appropriate for writers of all genres.

Cost: $20 for NHWP members ($30 for nonmembers)

Registration: Register online.

Contact: New Hampshire Writers’ Project

Aaron Marcus (piano, tunesmith) and Sam Sanders (spoken word) work as a captivating duo to bring the emotive works of Vermont poets to life. Some of the poems you will hear in this house concert performance once appeared on the windows of Montpelier for PoemCity and can be expected on an album released next year!

Note: This event will be livestreamed.

Cost: By donation

Contact: Kellogg-Hubbard Library

Come share with us your music, poetry, singing, comedy, storytelling and other in a virtual space to enjoy and connect us all! Hosted by Liz Horan of Feral Journal of Poetry and Art.

If you’d like to perform, please send an email to . You will receive a Zoom invite and instructions.

Contact: Thetford Libraries

Through conversation and exercises, Richard Blanco will lead participants in a deep dive into the golden rule of writing poetry, “show don’t tell.” Though it’s a familiar rule often applied instinctually, Blanco will examine how it truly works, and why, in order to gain a stronger, more purposeful command of it. Limited to 20 participants.

Please note: This workshop will be available through Zoom.

Registration: Register online.

Contact: Kellogg-Hubbard Library

Richard Blanco: How To Love A Country

Richard Blanco reads from his recent poetry collection How to Love a Country, exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues and more, unraveling the fabric of the American narrative in accessible and emotive verses.

Please note: This event is digital only and will be held on the Vermont Humanities Facebook page.

Contact: Vermont Humanities Council

Kenzie Allen

Erika T. Wurth: Buckskin Cocaine

David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts

The MFA in Writing & Publishing program is hosting their Friday Night Readings series online this semester. All events can be accessed by the public on Google Hangouts.

Note: To view the event, you just signed into a Google account. Please put your computer microphone on mute when you enter. If you do not have a Google account, you can call in from your phone by using calling conference line: ‪1 (502) 208-5166‬ and then entering this PIN: ‪754 370 900‬#

Contact: Vermont College of Fine Arts

So you’ve been introduced to the basics of Scrivener. Maybe you’ve even started using it to get your binder in order or create new scenes. But now it’s time to tackle the big one: research. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to keep track of all of your research materials. Using Scrivener’s research section, we’ll learn how to import, categorize, and organize your research so that you can find them when you need them. We’ll also talk about how tools like bookmarks, keywords, and metadata can help you connect that research to the parts of your manuscript where you most need them.

At the end of the class, there will be an opportunity to ask questions about their own projects. You will come out of the class with an improved toolkit for organizing and using your materials, and a plan for tackling your own research.

This class is appropriate for writers of all genres.

Cost: $20 for NHWP members ($30 for nonmembers)

Registration: Register online.

Contact: New Hampshire Writers’ Project

Jeff Oaks: Little What

Cost: Free but tickets are required

Contact: Silver Center for the Arts

Wheaton Writing Academy is please to host an editing and revising workshop given by Dawn Potter. Dawn helps the poet to see a draft, extract the meaningful and the ‘poetic’ and then work on transforming the poem into an entire work of meaning! Bring two poems to work on and then we will work on a generative prompt!

Cost: $50

Registration: Send an email to or text (603) 969-1060.

Contact: The Frost Place