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💃🏾🐆💀

Tomorrow at 5 pm on BonMot, 2024’s open PoemCity Anthology reading. I’ll be recording PC’s 2025 live at BearPond at 4 pm! Lend an ear at WGDR.org or come read yr poem.

Poems galore at the VT State House, 730 pm, Farmers Night!

Great poems from NNE poets laureate in the Vt. State House on Farmers Night! Lend yr ears!

The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago. In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?

Poet Larry Levis reads in the Elliston series at the University of Cincinnati in 1979, after his PhD from U of Iowa, today during the BonMot FunDrive edition at 5 pm on WGDR.org

Heading out in VT mud season. Crow-eyed, I spy shiny object. I am going to a sugarhouse! #C6H12O6synchro

This is a siren going off. Current administration is using the federal government to intimidate public media & its supporters. This is authoritarian practice to lock down information & prevent independent reporting. Bravo to @wbur.org for straight up reporting on it. www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...

Poet conjuror Mr. St. N. will be spellbinding at the VT. Statehouse tonite. Wed, 26th at 7:30 pm

Today at 5 pm on BonMot multiple camp Holocaust survivor Menachem S. Arnoni’s Manifesto of Belief in Man, delivered at a UC-Berkeley Teach-in, October 1965. Dial up archive.WGDR.org and lend an ear.

Statehouses often pass legislation that sets precedents, for better or worse. Keep your eyes peeled. There should be legit reporters in every state house during every legislative session.

Poets and short story writers, Bobbie Hawkins & Elena Georgiou on BonMot on WGDR.org at 5 pm. Ms. Hawkins on individuality & writers’ voices. Ms. Georgiou on a pastor’s culinary sermon, preaching the gospel of Pork Fat. Lend yr ears.

What a prophetic bastard…

In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. was invited to Hollywood, to a private home, as a fundraiser for his Civil Rights work. With both Marlon Brando and James Baldwin present, it was the last time he spoke in LA. Historic Pacifica Radio on BonMot at 5pm on WGDR.org #blm

The ways in which libraries led the resistance to the Patriot Act, which culminated in the Doe v. Gonzales case, was one of the primary reasons I became a librarian. It remains a motivating factor in my work on intellectual freedom.

Talking local, nonprofit, public service journalism w/ Hardwick Gazette editor, Paul Fixx on BonMot Sunday at 5pm on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears.

Good Heart Farmstead family members (son & Mom) Waylon & Katie read short fiction & poetry on Bon Mot today at 5pm on WGDR.org Please lend an ear to live community radio.