Category Archives: Poetry

Artbits-March 14, 2024

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. Rotary Home Show, Prydein. Spring Release, Vermont Watercolor Society, Mary Anne Duffy Godin. Jacob Aguiar, Vermont Blues. Maker’s Market. Paint and Sip, Patty the Gnome, Sylvia Oblak. Spring Landscapes, Natalie Carr. Northern Vermont Artists’ Association, NVAA, June Juried Show. Elnu Abenaki Singers. Andrea Tamburro, Intergenerational Trauma Healing Resilience. Chester F. Parsons, History of Sheep in Vermont. Wallace Stegner, Based on a Real Life Angle of Repose. Felicia Kornbluh, Reproductive Rights Justice. Poet Rajnii Eddins. Richard Cowperthwait, Bridget Higdon, Tim Smith, Town Meeting. Intro to Macrame, Allie Chapple. Key Elements in Portrait Painting, George Van Hook. Viktor Butko. Social Sunday. Creative Escape Fantasy in Art, Jen Volansky, Mindful Art Series. Best I’ve Ever Slabbed Handbuilding Clay, Chiara Keeling. Karaoke, Irish music, bagpipes, Fam Jam, Smokey Newfield, Ron Gagnon, Jomoband,, Shane’s Apothecary, Phantom Airwaves, Matty Me, Last Kid Picked, 90 Proof, Paul Asbell, IncaHoots, Chris Issy, WD40s, John Gratton, Phillip Hyjek, Spencer Lewis, Roger Giroux, Dave Miller, Barbie-N-Bones. Slainte. Continue reading →

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Artbits-August 10, 2023

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Dick

Festival. COVID hospitalization, vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks, Open Farm Week, Summer Sounds. Legacy: The Artist’s Collection, Susan Bull Riley. Retrospective Looking Forward, Aida Whedon. Summer Cocktails, Neon Night, Sylvia Oblak. Easy Folk Dancing for All Ages, Leslie Alpert. Ballet School, Northern Vermont Ballet. Abenaki Word of the Week. Cornhusk Doll-Making, Donna Toneatti, Corn Fest. Conscious Communicatons, Kim Bob Muncil. Social Sunday. Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, North Heroes, Mark Shelton, Dirty Looks Band, Julia Parent, John Lackard Blues Duo, Fabulous Wrecks, 90 Proof, Free Range Band, Barbie-N-Bones, Logger, Rusty Dewees, Patrick Ross, Ms. Lee Fan Club, Fabian Rainville, Nobby Reed, Cooie Sings, Adlai, Cerutti-Reid Duo, Sarah Peter Bowley, Tami Shearer, Champlain Voices, B-Town, Tinus Smallus, Blue Heron, Bad Horsey, Mad Mojo, Renee Laroche-Rheaume, Enosburg Town Band, Conor, Wild Hunt, Dave Roberts, Citizens Concert Band, 8084, Chad Hollister, Jamie Lee Thurston. Joseph Bruchac, Academy of American Poets, Poet Laureate Fellowship Award. Library Book Club, Cheryl Messier, But I Progress. Continue reading →

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Artbits-July 6, 2023

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Big Music Weeks of Summer. Barry Genzlinger, Maureen Genzlinger, Martha McGinn, Cat McKeen, Nathaniel Williams. Retrospective Landscape, Michael Domina. Art Sidewalk Sale. Milkweed Monarch Paint and Sip, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Stampin’ Up! Cardmaking, Christmas in July, Barb Switzer. International Community Folk Dancing, Leslie Alpert. Social Sunday. Board Meeting. COVID cash, library, libraries, maintenance, upgrades. Cooie Adlai, Shane Murley, B-Town, Cooper, Third Shift, Dan Parks, Mark Steffenhagen, Mark Abair, All Star Band, Kyle Stevens, Soul Soda, Jonny Mop, Dennis Fox, Melvin Seals, JGB, Smokin Gun, Breanna Elaine, Mango Jam, the Nobby Reed Project, Joe Moore, Burlington Taiko Drummers, Lake Sorbet, Kathy Fisher, Juliana Just Costa. A Cappella Lollapalooza, Root 7, Green Mountain Chorus, Chordination, Enosburg Town Band, Raised by Hippies, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Julia Parent, Prydein, Lloyd Tyler, Citizens Concert Band, Nobby Reed. Summer Sounds, Tenderbellies. Chamber Music Northwest, Poetry in Music, Gloria Chien, Soovin Kim. Mark Shelton, Captain Radical. Author Open House. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 20, 2023

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Dick

Vaccination, booster, registration. Quote of the Day. Youth Art Show. Jennifer Ashline, Small Member’s Group Show. Makers Market. Moonlit Cherry Tree Paint Charcuterie. Carolyn Crotty. Poems in Performance, Cure for Poemphobia, Geof Hewitt. Spring Record Day, vinyl. Corrina Thurston, Social Media Creatives. Social Sunday. Carley Tillinghast, Resin Flower. Mike Barkyoumb, Graphite Drawing. COVID dashboard. Heliland, Beethoven, Chick Corea, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Reefer Madness, Dee Davis, Carrie Cook, Chris Erica, Lebowski Trio, Devon McGary, Men in Motion, Bad Horsey, Rushmore, VSO Jukebox Quartet. Trish Esden, Wealth of Deception. Continue reading →

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Artbits-March 30, 2023

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Dick

Vaccination, booster, registration. River Arts, Slab Planter, Chiara Keeling. FEMA award, Northwestern Medical Center, Legacy: The Artist’s Collection, printmaker Daryl Storrs. Makers Market, Nebi. Abenaki Word of the Week. Jonathan Billings, NMC, NWMC, Northwestern Medical Center Challenges. Corrina Thurston, Learn Product Photography. Social Sunday. Clare Innes, Harmonica, Bring Your Own Ukelele. Adult Wheel Class, Anthony Martin, Cal Spinelli. Board Meeting and Updates. Disney MVU Musical, Newsies, Morgan Myles, Reggie Harris, Alastair Moock, Ryan Sweezey, Matty Me, Eleven, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Before this Time, Steppes, Young Tradition VT, Summit School Mud Season Spectacular. Montgomery Town Library, Richard Montgomery, Robert Gilmore, Chris Dixson-Boles, Andrea Saborowski. Poetry Slam 2023. Continue reading →

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Artbits-February 23, 2023

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Dick

Vaccination, booster, registration. Annette Roach, Gnome Craft, Black Light Paint Pizza Party, Neon Moon, February Sip n’ Slurry, Paint Your Story, Jude Prashaw. UVM COVID Testing Clinic. Cases hospitalizations unchanged. Around the World with Mary Alden, Barbados, Caribbean. Homeschool with the Bryan. Poems Around Town. Osher, Caroline Tassey, Esther Sumner Damon, Last Revolutionary War Pensioner. Vermont Humanities, Stono Rebellion, Damian Costello, Civic Participation, Paraguay, Cristhian Fretes Ojeda, Youth Agriculture, Sarah Monteiro, People’s Tongue, Ilan Stavans. Social Sundays, Mixed Media, Sheri Howe. Third Shift, Chris Erica, Sticks Stones, WD-40, Staircase 24, Chris Lyon, Duel, John Geno, Kevin Connelly, She Was Right, Julia Parent, Troy Millette, Mark Shelton. Regional writers. Eloquent Page, Jason Barney, A.Y. Berthiaume, Carleigh Bodrug, Lynda Bouchard, Charlie Brooks, Trueman Bryer, Dawn Densmore-Parent, J.P. Choquette, Trish Esden, Tammy Hetrick, Jerry Johnson, Sandy Manning, James B Manning, Bill Mares, Don Hooper, Jillian Marshall, Walt McLaughlin, DonnaRae Menard, DonnaRae Menard, Laura Napoli, Stephen Russell Payne, Bob Pierce, Sara R Stewart, Michael Freed-Thrall. Chris Bohjalian, Robert Frost, Jamaica Kincaid, Archer Mayor, and Annie Proulx William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Eudora Welty, Don Quixote, A Tale of Two Cities, C.J. Box, James Lee Burke, Jonathan Kellerman, Stephen King, Archer Mayor, Sara Paretsky, Robert Parker, Louise Penny. Continue reading →

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