Poetry

Samantha Kolber
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Samantha Kolber has received a Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a Vermont Poetry Society prize. Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review, Poems2Go, Tiny Seed Journal, Rise Up Review, Hummingbird, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, The Meadow, and other journals and anthologies. She received her MFA from Goddard College and completed post-grad studies at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. Originally from New Jersey, she lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she coordinates author events and marketing for Bear Pond Books and is the Poetry Series Editor at Rootstock Publishing. Listen to her poems, including "Birth of a Daughter," at samanthakolber.com.

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Montpelier, VT
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Everywhere. Signed copies at Bear Pond Books: https://www.bearpondbooks.com/book/9781952326363

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Birth of a Daughter by Samantha Kolber - ISBN 9781952326363
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Samn Stockwell has published in Agni, Ploughshares, and the New Yorker, among others. Her two books, Theater of Animals and Recital, won the National Poetry Series (USA) and the Editor’s Prize at Elixir, respectively. Recent poems are in Gargoyle & Sugar House Review and are forthcoming in Plume and others.

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Amazon

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ISBN 9781932418088

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ISBN 9780252064760
Scudder Parker
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Scudder Parker and his family moved to North Danville, Vermont when he was nine years old. We worked hard on the farm we moved to, first as dairy farmers; then as Christmas tree farmers. When my father went into the ministry we moved to Hardwick and I graduated from Hardwick Academy in 1961. I was a Protestant minister for over 20 years, and a Vermont State Senator from Caledonia County for four terms. In 2006, I ran (unsuccessfully) for Governor of Vermont. I am a longtime activist and organizer (anti-Vietnam War; housing; food security, recycling.) After working in state government on energy issues for 13 years I was a policy consultant in energy efficiency, renewable energy and utility policy the decade prior to my retirement.

Creating (or discovering) poems has been a response to the invitation life keeps offering. I am astonished by how much stays unsaid. Most of it doesn't need to; some of it absolutely shouldn't. Of course I don't presume to say for other people what only they can say, but poetry does feel like a way I get to share what I hope others will find familiar, or at least in some measure, recognizable, experience.

Since retirement in 2017 have been settling into my ongoing work as a poet and essay writer. I am a passionate gardener and proud grandfather of four. I live with my wife, Susan Sussman, in Middlesex VT. I have been published in Sun Magazine, Vermont Life, Northern Woodlands, Wordrunner, Passager, Eclectica, Twyckenham Notes, Crosswinds, Ponder Review, La Presa, Aquifer, and Sky Island Journal. My first volume of poetry “Safe as Lightning” was released in June, 2020, by Rootstock Publishing.

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802-522-9166
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82 DAVY RD
05602
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MIDDLESEX, VT

Scudder Parker
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Independent bookstores, Amazon, Rootstock Publishing

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Safe as Lightning - 9781578690312
Sean Prentiss
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Sean Prentiss is the award winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave which won the 2015 winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for biography. Finding Abbey was also a finalist for both the Vermont and Colorado Book Awards.

His next book is Crosscut: Poems (2020), which is a memoir-in-poems about his time as a trail builder inthe Pacific Northwest.

He is the co-editor of an anthology on the craft of creative nonfiction, entitled The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre, and the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology, entitled the Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction.

He is also the co-author of Environmental and Nature Writer: A Writers' Guide and Anthology and the forthcoming Advanced Creative Nonfiction: Writers' Guide and Anthology.

​He is also the series editor for Bloomsbury's Writers' Guide and Anthology textbook series, which has three books in print and multiple books in production.

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Woodbury

Crosscut: Poems
Crosscut: Poems

Finding Abbey
Finding Abbey

Env. and Nature Writing
Env. and Nature Writing

The Science of Story
The Science of Story
Sharon Darrow
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Sharon Darrow is the award-winning author of Picture Books (Old Thunder and Miss Raney; Yafi’s Family; Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein) and Young Adult novels (The Painters of Lexieville and TRASH). Her poetry for young people and her poems, short stories, interviews, and personal essays for adults have appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Her most recent works are Worlds within Words: Writing and the Writing Life and her first poetry collection for adults, Now in a Far Sky.

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Barnes and Noble; Booksense; Amazon

WORLDS WITHIN WORDS: WRITING AND THE WRITING LIFE
WORLDS WITHIN WORDS: WRITING AND THE WRITING LIFE
ISBN 9780998687803 / In Worlds within Words: Writing and The Writing Life, Sharon Darrow shows that a writer, through the process of discovery and revision, not only revises the work, but the self as well, and that through this creative process grows as a human being and becomes more capable of writing what must be written. She brings the knowledge and wisdom her years of experience writing for children, teenagers, and adults has given her to this compilation of essays taken from a selection of her lectures presented during her twenty-year teaching career in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program of Vermont College of Fine Arts.

NOW IN A FAR SKY
NOW IN A FAR SKY
ISBN 9780998687834 / Vermont author Sharon Darrow has taught in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program of Vermont College of Fine Arts for over 20 years and has lived in Vermont for many of those years. Now residing in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, she is constantly inspired by the richness of the surrounding forests, brooks, lakes, and mountains. Her poems in this volume reflect the vision and solitary spirit of the land and seasons of Vermont. From early spring's mud season and the awakening of life after a long winter, through the heat of summer harvest, to autumn's turning into the chill of winter, these poems reflect the uniqueness of this beautiful, welcoming, and yet sometimes harsh and lonely place. These poems explore the emotional intersection between inner and outer worlds and the breakthrough of voice into the silence.

THE PAINTERS OF LEXIEVILLE
THE PAINTERS OF LEXIEVILLE
ISBN 9780998687810 / Lexieville, Arkansas, can hardly be called a town - it’s just a handful of shotgun houses squatting at the end of a gravel road off the two-lane highway out of Sardis. For many in the Lexie clan, this is the only place they’ve ever been, the only home they’ll ever know. Truly Lexie’s dreams of a better life, if she had them once upon a time, have worn threadbare and frail as an ancient quilt. Her devoted but hapless husband, John, long ago accepted his lot in life but hasn’t given up hope that their two children, Jobe and Pert, might lead the lives they’ve only imagined. But Jobe has already dropped out of high school and looks to be marrying young. Only Pert still harbors a youthful and fierce determination to get out, and get out as fast as she can. She aims to wipe the detested red dust of Lexieville off her feet and put on a new life like a bright, clean, fresh coat of paint. The weight of history is hard to shrug off, however, and seems to grow heavier as Pert moves closer to independence. With little support and no role models to follow, will she have the strength to fend off generations’ worth of fatalism, and the confidence to defend her dreams? Sharon Darrow’s harrowing coming-of-age tale, told from the points of view of mother, son, and daughter, is rich with metaphorical significance and - like its small-town heroine - is obstinately, everlastingly hopeful.

TRASH
TRASH
ISBN 0763626244 / For sixteen-year-old Sissy and her brother Boy, trash is a reminder of one too many sorry foster placements they've endured, a way of life they can't wait to escape. Now on the run in search of their big sister Raynell, ironically they are forced to rely on their trash-picking skills for sustenance and shelter. Reunited at last with Raynell in St. Louis, Boy and Sissy shed their old identities, reinvent themselves as graffiti artists, and splash their new names on city bridges and walls. But one night's expedition goes horribly wrong, and Sissy looks again to trash, this time as the beginning of something artful and beautiful. Two teen siblings run from foster life -- and find new expression as graffiti artists -- in a stark but hopeful poetic novel.