Current Vermont Poet Laureate, Bianca Stone, will spend an hour taking listeners deep into the work of a previous Vermont Poet Laureate, focusing on the poems themselves and opening up a discussion about the phenomenon of poetry’s place in our world. This lecture will underscore how poems and poets are vital to our state, connecting community members to the changing landscape, architecture, wildlife, and to each other on the most intimate level. This segment will focus on Galway Kinnell, who served as Vermont Poet Laureate from 1989-1993.

In honor of National Poetry Month, a Q&A and community salon will follow the lecture.