• Facebook
Vermont Authors Fest
  • Home
  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Vermont Author Directory
  • Calendar
  • Sponsor Opportunities
  • Contact
Select Page

Poetry


Advanced Search
Directory View All Listings Add Listing

D. Avery

D. Avery
Author First & Last Name
D. Avery
Author Pseudonym
D. Avery
Poetry, Short Story

Having enjoyed some writing success in fourth grade at Woodbury Graded School, D. Avery has returned to the Land of Lakes and Ponds and returned to writing. D. Avery blogs at Shiftnshake, where she pours flash fiction and shots of poetry for online sampling. She is the author of two books of poems, Chicken Shift and For the Girls. Her latest release, After Ever; Little Stories for Grown Children, is a collection of flash and short fiction. D. Avery tweets ‪‪@daveryshiftn‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‪‪.

Author Physical Address - Street - City / Town - State
Woodbury
Shiftnshake
D. Avery Twitter
Where my books are sold.
My books are available at The Galaxy, Mitchell's Book Corner, Book Works, and Amazon.

Massive little stories for grown children, mystical, tragic, and occasionally hopeful.
Massive little stories for grown children, mystical, tragic, and occasionally hopeful.

Contemplative poems of crossings, told tongue in beak.
Contemplative poems of crossings, told tongue in beak.

Author Book Cover 3

Eli Shaw

Ready to Sell
Author First & Last Name
Eli Shaw
Autobiography, Healthcare / Caregiving, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry

Eli Shaw Biography

As a Caregiver, I have experienced many different scenarios of caregiving. As a young boy, I protected a friend with Down Syndrome from bullying daily. I volunteered to help with kids with disabilities in a youth group called STAR and was a US delegate to the Canadian National 4-H Convention. I went to RISD Art School High School program for six years and experienced College for 4 years with no degree. In 1969 I was founder and first director of Camp Happyness and was nominated for the Outstanding Young Men of America Award at Twenty. In 1970 I lived in Brazil and created several programs in the agricultural community in the rural farm area on an IFYE exchange. I was a house worker for a group home in Massachusetts. I worked with a camp for kids with Cancer as a photographer. I was a freelance photographer since my twenties and worked in retail and theater in NYC and was a Visual Display Artist for Bloomingdales, Victory Shirt Co, and many clothing and stationery stores. I worked with the homeless and substance abuse programs and HIV/AIDS Peer Education coordinator in Yonkers. I volunteered at Camp VIVA for families affected by HIV. I was a truck Driver, mill worker, and sales rep. On the board of the Stamford Arts Society and worked as an Educational Technician for several schools in Vermont for twenty-two years. I served on the Community Justice Center Board since 2014 and was Retail Manager for the Non-profit called ReSource. I now work with the mental health agency and have been a PCA for one young man for twenty plus years. My next goal is to continue restoring the 1900 vintage 16 room Victorian and turn it into a respite place for people with TBI. My mission in life is to enjoy it, learn from it, and leave it better than when I got here.

Author Phone Number
802-461-9747
Author USPS Address - PO / Street - City / Town - State
10 Averill Street
Barre, Vermont

05641
Facebook
"If I Die Before I Wake" excerpt
Where my books are sold.
Amazon.com

If I Die Before I Wake, A Caregivers Journey by Eli Shaw. A very timely book, ahead of its time.
If I Die Before I Wake, A Caregivers Journey by Eli Shaw. A very timely book, ahead of its time.
This book was started 25 years ago as a healing method after experiencing the AIDS Pandemic. After realizing how I got there a psychologist friend of mine told me I should write a book. So I did. This book is so relevant to today's pandemic it is amazing. A great read and inspiring.

Kristina Stykos

Kristina Stykos
Author First & Last Name
Kristina Stykos
Listing Owner
Kristina Stykos
Nature, Poetry

Kristina Stykos is a writer, music producer, photographer and landscape gardener based in Vermont. Her first poetry book "Ridgerunner: A Hundred Poems from Rural Vermont", supported in part by the Vermont Community Foundation, was released on Shires Press this year in two editions.

Kristina’s most recent solo album "River of Light" made the #2 slot on County Tracks “Best Vermont Albums of 2019” list, following previous kudos of “Best Songwriter” (2013) and “Best Vermont Album of the Year” (2005) by other media outlets. Kristina’s music and songwriting have been supported by artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, both of Wyoming.

Kristina holds producer credits for upwards of 30 albums featuring diverse artists, and recorded at her rural Pepperbox Studio, using solar, wind & generator power generation exclusively. She dedicates herself to supporting fellow musicians seeking honest self expression and has carved out a distinctive niche in acoustic and roots rock music production on her independent record label, Thunder Ridge Records.

Author USPS Address - PO / Street - City / Town - State
PO Box 367 - Chelsea, Vermont
05038
Kristina Stykos Website
Facebook
Kristina Stykos music at SoundCloud
Where my books are sold.
Shires Press Indie Bound, Bear Pond Books

Ridgerunner - paperback [text only]
Ridgerunner - paperback [text only]
Far from the madding crowd, but keenly aware of the dangerous & uncertain world we live in, Kristina Stykos’ poems from rural Vermont uncover “a joy shining through cracked prisms of love, loss and letting go”, exploring from the ground up, what it is to be human. Working as a landscape gardener, while trying to eke out a living as a musician, Stykos’ persistent voice is as singular as it is unsentimental, musing on a hardscrabble existence made transcendent by the nearly indescribable beauty of her wild and remote surroundings. Using language that is conversational and easy to grasp, her poems are at once elegant and dynamic, taking us directly into the heart her daily routines. Whether it’s pruning a gangly rose bush, eating lunch on a truck tailgate, or taking a chance on a muddy & forgotten dirt road, she makes it clear that there is always more to understand and contemplate about this gnarly paradox we call life. “Through Kristina Stykos’ unflinching lens, we harbor fleeting essences of what it means to live indivisibly from the land—its woods, fields, farms, gardens, streams, mountains, backroads, and everything that grows and fades only to grow again—among neighbors, strangers, friends…all who are inescapably at home in it … Savor the art of a true Vermont original whose deeply inhabited renderings encourage us to linger here, as long and often as we like. “ Partridge Boswell

Ridgerunner - hardcover [text & photographs]
Ridgerunner - hardcover [text & photographs]
Far from the madding crowd, but keenly aware of the dangerous & uncertain world we live in, Kristina Stykos’ poems from rural Vermont uncover “a joy shining through cracked prisms of love, loss and letting go”, exploring from the ground up, what it is to be human. Working as a landscape gardener, while trying to eke out a living as a musician, Stykos’ persistent voice is as singular as it is unsentimental, musing on a hardscrabble existence made transcendent by the nearly indescribable beauty of her wild and remote surroundings. Using language that is conversational and easy to grasp, her poems are at once elegant and dynamic, taking us directly into the heart her daily routines. Whether it’s pruning a gangly rose bush, eating lunch on a truck tailgate, or taking a chance on a muddy & forgotten dirt road, she makes it clear that there is always more to understand and contemplate about this gnarly paradox we call life. In this sumptuous, illustrated edition, the author’s own full-color landscape photos have been matched with poems. Working and traveling through lesser known parts of Vermont with a Lumix G2 digital camera always at the ready, her images are intimate and stunning. They carry the mark of a native woods rambler, as well as that of a keen observer of flowers, painting honest portraits of nature’s inner sanctum, caught in precious, fleeting moments of changing light, throughout the seasons. “Through Kristina Stykos’ unflinching lens, we harbor fleeting essences of what it means to live indivisibly from the land—its woods, fields, farms, gardens, streams, mountains, backroads, and everything that grows and fades only to grow again—among neighbors, strangers, friends…all who are inescapably at home in it … Savor the art of a true Vermont original whose deeply inhabited renderings encourage us to linger here, as long and often as we like. “ Partridge Boswell

Maigualida Rak

Maigualida Rak
Author First & Last Name
Maigualida Rak
Poetry

Maigualida Rak is a Venezuelan/Spanish language professor, and also a poet. As a poet, I celebrate a women’s wisdom, honoring our journey, listening and giving voice to spiritual and sensual feelings, embracing, enfolding, engulfing within our minds the truth that sensuality is linked to relationships, protection, provision, expansion, development, love, joy, health and interdependency, and completion. Let's celebrate universal Love!

Vermont authors are invited to join the Vermont Authors Fest Facebook group.

Buy My Book at Crow Bookshop - Burlington
Buy My Book at Amazon
Instagram
Where my books are sold.
Crow Bookstore - Burlington & Amazon

Author Book Cover 2
9798650990598 - Of The Desire And The Sublime Del Deseo Y Lo Sublime Bilingual Edition: English and Spanish Edition by Maigualida Rak; a woman whose femininity encompasses life with beauty and poetry, offers us this collection of poems, a vibrant memory of past and present loving, passionate and sensual loves. Born of a present in Vermont, where the winter calmness of fable and the romanticism of the autumnal ochres, are opposed and simultaneously joined to the exuberance of the Caribbean forest that connects her with the ground, together forming a collage that allows this skillful pen to transmit her passion to us for living, uncovering a sensual and sophisticated intimacy. She manages to interweave in total harmony with the body's passion and the sublime vibration of a soul in love. Only a skilled poet who has perfected and plumbed the depths of her passion, can unselfconsciously lay bare her most intimate feelings. Her voice is unique and refreshing. Few poets can deliver such a captivating and meticulous eruption. With a sublime look upon the everyday, the author tells us in prose her personal stories, unveiling the beauty of the usual moments, which in the end are the main makeup of life.

Richard Hawley

Richard Hawley
Author First & Last Name
Richard Hawley
Literary Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Parenting & Relationships, Poetry, Short Story

Richard Hawley was born in 1945 in Chicago. He attended suburban
public schools in Arlington Heights, Illinois, before attending
Middlebury College, where he completed his B.A. in political science.
He went on to graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University,
where he earned an M.S. in Management Science and a Ph.D. in political
philosophy. He also studied theology for a year at St. John’s College,
Cambridge University, as an M.A. research student under the tutelage
of the theologian W. Norman Pittenger.

In the fall of 1968 he began teaching at Cleveland’s University
School, an independent college preparatory school for boys. He would
go on to teach history, economics, philosophy and English literature,
while also serving the school as history department chairman, dean of
students, director of the Upper School, and, from 1988 until his
retirement in 2005, Headmaster. In 1995 he was named the founding
president of the International Boys Schools Coalition.

A writer of fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction, he has
published more than twenty books and several monographs. His essays,
articles and poems have appeared in dozens of literary, scholarly, and
commercial journals, including The New York Times, The Atlantic
Monthly, American Film, Commonweal, America, Orion, and The Christian
Science Monitor and is represented in many literary anthologies For
ten years he taught fiction and non-fiction writing at The Breadloaf
Writers Conference in Vermont, and he continues to teach developing
writers in a variety of settings. Recent work, including work in
progress, draws increasingly from depth psychology and classical
philosophy to illuminate contemporary problems.

He has lectured extensively at universities, schools, and conferences
in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. He is
married to Mary Hawley, a painter and fabric artist. They live in
Ripton, Vermont.

Richard Hawley's website
Facebook
Where my books are sold.
Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, independent book stores - Additional books: On My Way Out: A Meditation on Closure, The Source of Longing, Souls in Boxes, I Can Learn From You

Author Book Cover 1

Author Book Cover 2

Author Book Cover 3

Author Book Cover 4
Next →
  • Home
  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Vermont Author Directory
  • Calendar
  • Sponsor Opportunities
  • Contact
  • Facebook
Website design by LarryBohenWebSolutions.com | Sitemap | Copyright © 2023 - All Rights Reserved
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT