Still North Books & Bar and Literary North
present


Poetry & Prose
Community
Open Mic



 

Sunday, JuLy 12
~
4 to 5:30 pm
on Zoom


Featuring Readings by

Megan Buchanan, Emily Arnason Casey,
Dede Cummings, Taylor Mardis Katz

and YOU!

  • To participate as a listener or a reader, use the form on this page to sign up by Friday, July 10.

  • The first 15 readers to sign up are guaranteed a spot.

  • Readers should prepare to read one original piece or excerpt for no more than three minutes.

  • We’ll send everyone who signs up a Zoom invitation prior to the event.

About the authors

  • Megan Buchanan is a dancer, a singer, a teacher, and a poet. Her poems have appeared in The Sun Magazine, make/shift, A Woman’s Thing, numerous other journals, and multiple anthologies. Her book of poetry, Clothesline Religion, was published in 2017 was nominated for the 2018 Vermont Book Award.

  • Dede Cummings is a writer, award-winning book designer, publisher, and commentator for Vermont Public Radio. Her poetry has been published in Birchsong, Connotation Press, Green Mountains Review, Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, To Look Out From, was the winner of the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Her second poetry collection, The Meeting Place, was published in spring 2020. Dede lives in Vermont on a dirt road, in a solar-powered house her husband Steve Carmichael built, where she designs books and runs Green Writers Press.

  • Emily Arnason Casey is a writer, teacher, and activist, originally from Northern Minnesota. She currently lives in rural Vermont with her family. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Briar Cliff Review, Hotel Amerika, The Normal School, Hunger Mountain, American Literary Review, and her essay “Laughing Water” received a notables listing in the Best American Essay series. Made Holy, her debut collection of essays, was published in 2019.

  • 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. Her poetry has appeared on VPR’s Brave Little State podcast, in Junction Magazine, The Adirondack Review, Muzzle Magazine, Barnstorm, and elsewhere.

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