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UPCOMING EVENTS
June 2026: London (UK) Performing a new collaborative work with Daniel Bates @ Fitzrovia Arts Festival

RECENT EVENTS
February 1, 2026: ENDLESS BUTTER: A Communal Feast of Poetry and Music @ Next Stage Arts, 1pm
Featuring poems by Sarah Anderson, Katie Bachler, Megan Buchanan, Michael Carter, James Crews, Dede Cummings, Alice Fogel, Lyedie Geer, Taylor Mardis Katz, Brad Peacock, Ben Pease, Erin Pesut, Nellie Prior, Diana Whitney . Music from Elijah Berlow, Gráinne Buchanan, Jake Klar, Shawn Magee, Hannah Mohan, Brendan Taaffe. Story by Michael Kohout


REVIEWS/ARTICLES
2025: I was honored to be interviewed for The Dartmouth by Crista Fiala about PoemCity's 2025 Anthology
Read my interview with my brilliant pal Rachel Yoder about her novel Nightbitch for Literary North

Deborah Hauser: Mom Egg Review
Rutland Herald


BOOKS
Clothesline Religion  (Green Writers Press, February 2017)

PUBLICATIONS (click links to read poems + find books)

2025 PoemCity Anthology: "Ireland by Train (Dublin to Wexford)" 
2024 Putney Library Poetry Chapbook, TIME CAPSULE. In partnership with
 Candace Jensen + Ruth Stone House
Next Stage Arts (Putney, VT) “Underlying Spirit,” poems in collaboration with art by Nathan Shepard through 8/15/22
The Path to Kindness, edited by James Crews (Workman 2022): "Dream Visitation"   
Writing the Land 2020 partnered with SELT-NH - Pawtuckaway River Reservation: poem here
Writing the Land: Northeast, 2021 anthology edited by Lis Mc Loughlin
ITERANT : Issue #4 Spring ’21 - "The Now-Life and the Next" and "UNLIKE (me)" 
Art at the Kent: on display, my poem, "Two Odes" - Listen to letterpress artist Kelly McMahon's interview with Desmond Peeples here. 
Healing the Divide, edited by James Crews: "My Daughter's Hair"
Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont (Volume II) February 2018, edited by Alice Wolf Gilborn and others
Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, edited by Sydney Lea and Chard DeNiord (Green Writers Press 2017)
MOM VOX/momeggreview.com: "Diamonds Heat the House" 
A Woman's Thing: The Wild Issue: "New Moon Over Wing Mountain"
Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (Secretary Press, New York) "Pocket"  
The Sun Magazine: Three poems
make/shift: "We Consider Moving In"
Eating Her Wedding Dress: An Anthology of Poems About Clothing (Ragged Sky Press, Princeton 2009)
        “Spring in the First Floor Women’s Bathroom at Northern Arizona University” 
lines+stars: "Long Weekend Shorts" 
San Pedro River Review: “Singing at Matt Malloy’s”  
PoemTown  2021, 2017, 2016, 2015 (Randolph, VT): Poems in public spaces
PoemCity 2017, 2016, 2015 (Montpelier, VT): Poems in public spaces
March 2015 Flying Object Press (Amherst, MA) Gallery show Where We Stumble : "Ode to Gail Carter Demaine"
The Collared Peccary - Poetry of Northern Arizona: Two poems
The Noise: Flagstaff’s Art + News Magazine: Three poems and an essay
Northfield Mount Hermon School Alumni Magazine: Eight articles 

FEATURED READINGS
2025
Endless Butter @ Next Stage Arts
2024: 
This-Worldly Midwinter Magic: A Communal Feast of Poetry and Music - Next Stage Arts           
Music by Hannah Mohan and Grainne Buchanan / Poems by Bianca Stone, Alice Fogel, Nellie Prior, Taylor Mardis-Katz, Sarah H. Paulson, Diana Whitney, Megan Buchanan, Nye Ffarrabas, Ben Pease
2023: Hartland Public Library and Next Stage Arts in Putney
2022: Next Stage Arts (Putney, VT) “Underlying Spirit,” poems in collaboration with art by Nathan Shepard
Bridgeside Books (Waterbury, VT) with Sarah Anderson and others
Bear Pond Books (Montpelier, VT) launch for The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
2021: Words Out Loud / Art at the Kent with Toussaint St. Negritude at the Old North Church
PoemTown 2021 - with Didi Jackson, Taylor Mardis Katz, Samantha Kolber, Peter Money
2020: Easy Like Sunday Afternoon Poetry and Prose - June 12th @ 4pm, hosted by Literary North 
2019: Wunderbar  (Bellows Falls, VT) with Chard deNiord and Nye Ffarrabas
Antidote Books' bi-monthly series: "Cocktail Continuum: An Evening of Expanded Poetics"

Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, VT with Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, Kerrin McCadden, Elizabeth Powell
Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, VT for Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, edited by James Crews
2018: Brattleboro Literary Festival, 118 Elliot (Brattleboro, VT) - Laundry: Women's Voices Reading
Lit Club at the Light Club Lamp Shop - featured poet (Burlington, VT) 

Next Stage (Putney, VT)  Green Writers Press - Earth Day Reading
Antidote Books, 7pm (Putney, VT) with Neil Shepard and B. Morrison

St. Michael's Episcopal, 7pm (Brattleboro, VT)  2nd Annual Parish Poets Reading, featuring Ross Thurber
PoemCity at VCFA (Montpelier, VT) with Diana Whitney, Major Jackson, Didi Jackson + others

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