Utterly prophetic, was Rev. King and JFK as well...

Dually MFAed in poetry and fiction from Iowa Writers Wkshop, then M.DIVed by Starr King Seminary, Jennifer Whitten may versify, narrate, or preach on BonMot Sunday!?! Lend yr ears at 5pm on WGDR.org

Poet, editor, Poetry Society of Vt exec Buffy Aakaash shares poems from his 2025 book, Breaking, 2022's Untangling the Knots, and new work in progress on BonMot at 5pm Sunday on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears!

38 VT authors' visions of VT were curated by Bill Mares in "Vermont 2050" & posthumously published by Bill's sweetie & a "pod" of beloveds. It debuted at St.J Atheneum w/ 6 authors sharing their visions. Lend an ear at 5 PM on Bon Mot WGDR.org

Virginian become Vermonter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Goddard College Creative Writing program cofounder has put up her pen for good. On Bon Mot at 5pm today we'll hear a lovely reading from her 2nd & 3rd books from 1987 on WGDR.org. Lend an appreciative elegiac ear.

Like you, I remember W, incredulously, saying stuff like "Don't they understand we create our own reality?" and now I understand the puppet masters and their strings upon him.

I saw this Rick Winston presentation in Adam-ant. Really amazing. A great piece of film historiography.

Sunday @5 pm on Bon Mot, Ivy T. Schweitzer, Dartmouth creative writing emerita, and gender studies professor, shares a new book of poems, Dividing Rivers, streaming world-wide on WGDR.org Lend an ear!

Four lovely homages honoring heart, art, and precision. yalereview.org/article/trib...

Arthur Sze is our new US poet laureate. Influenced equally by Chinese landscape painting, Walt Whitman, imagists, and collagists... hear poems & commentary at 5 pm on WGDR.org

On Bon Mot at 5 pm, speeches from VT representatives at No Kings Day, Oct. 18, field recorded live at the Statehouse in Montpelier. Lend yr ears at wgdr.org

NH poet laureate Jennifer Militello, an open reading, and an open musical Interlude... frostplace.org/sundays-in-t...

BonMot and wgdr.org are fundraising worldwide. Support the literary arts and win cool Vermont prizes!

Poets Doug Currier and Kiev Ratten recorded live at TheFront in Montpelier on September 11, today on BonMot on wgdr.org 5 PM. Lend an ear here!

Not what's up... what's down... ;)

Old West Church Poetry tomorrow

Plainfield Farmers Mkt goes out w/ a blaze o'glory (last outdoor mkt of the season).

Skool hike at Mt Elmore... VT

Droughty Vermont Tailgate Call to Action!

@modaviau.bsky.social Big congrats on pubday. Thinking of you in Vt while making collages from old NatGeos with 6th graders. @dynamoe.bsky.social will like dig this OR. font!

If the United States saw what the US is doing in the United States, the US would invade the United States to liberate the US from the tyranny of the United States

Shakespeare at Goddard 3.0

Love talking about Suspect and the writing process in general on this podcast! If you listen long enough you'll hear a word I say get bleeped out which I was no joke delighted by.

On Bon Mot today: Actors, playwrights, poets, directors... the creative engines of the The VT Playwrights Circle, Kim Ward & Dvora Zipkin, give us a preview of the 18th annual TenFest, ten ten-minute plays! Lend yr ears at 5 pm on WGDR.org

Fun plays at Goddard 3.0 this week. Nice to see folks back on campus learning, sharing, and creating the literary performing arts!

Looks fascinating, @angelacoraccio.bsky.social, to those of us at a certain time in music history: www.salon.com/2025/08/05/a...

Stay golden Honey boy…

Busy bee Is nice to see In VT

Peabody winners talk about the power of public radio www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/jay...

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Peek-a-boo Montpeculiar

The Hellers and Richard Brautigan on BonMot at 5pm on WGDR.org Singers, talkers, players, swingers, doers, fisherman and experimental lounge lizards…

I call them “paychecks” and got one last week.

My senators, correctly, insist that this is not a unilateral decision.

Hear what’s going on at the Civic Standard in Hardwick on WGDH, 91.7 fm or stream their show at www.mixcloud.com/CivicStandar...

Stepdad of post-modernist prose, D.Barthelme, on BonMot at 5pm on WGDR.org (record-ed live in 1982).

Today on BonMot, VT poet laureate Bianca Stone recorded live at the Chandler Center for the Alrts in Randolph April 10, 2025. A delightful poetry reading! So tune to BonMot at 5 PM at wgdr.org & thanks for lending an ear.

What do André 3ooo & Jane F0nda have in common? They gave amazing commencement speeches in May. Tune into BonMot on wgdr.org at 5pm. Lend your ears to the wisdom of the ages.

"One of the most important people in the newsroom is the person who decides that they're going to press a button that sends an immediate notification to millions of people’s phones.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/proj...

Poetry Society of VTers gather at the Kellogg Hubbard Library for a National Poetry Month reading. Tune in at 5 PM on WGDR.org for BonMot. Tasty pastoral, political, panoramic poems, recorded live. Lend your ears.

RE: #diddy case - please leave the reporting to the reporters. most of y’all do not have the range. signed, a very tired survivor

Pobiz Mntplr!

Saturday, 7 pm, April 26 – Silloway Maple Farmer Poets – Taylor Mardis Katz, an herb farmer; Katie Spring, a vegetable and flower farmer; and Greg Bernhardt, a goat farmer and cheesemaker

PoemCity 2025 Anthology debut (recorded live @ Bear Pond Bks, 4.6.25) features guest readers Sunday on BonMot, on WGDR.org at 5 pm. Poets Toussaint St. Negritude, Chard deNiord, & VT poet laureate Bianca Stone populate this episode. 19 poets to follow in Ep. 2 so stay tuned!

Bianca Stone’s Laureates Three poetry reading is streamable on demand at archive.wgdr.org, choose BonMot, 4/20. NH’s Militello & Maine’s Bouwsma are 4/13. All 3 were amazing!

Poets Laureate Julia Bouwsma (ME) and Jennifer Militello (NH) reading at the VT Statehouse and WGDR.org’s Joseph Gainza shares a poem of Twilight. Lend yr ears at 5pm to PoemCity 2025.

Bianca Stone reading at the Chandler in Randolph at 7 pm

Peoples and poems!

cookin up a special #leopards rendition en Español💃🏾🐆💀