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JOHNSON — Vermont Studio Center (VSC) celebrates National Poetry Month with a special afternoon featuring three Vermont poets. The public is encouraged to attend on Sunday, April 20 at 2 p.m.
in the Red Mill , for VSC’s annual poetry reading. Hosted by VSC’s Writing Program, this reading will showcase the work of Vermont poets, Vievee Francis, Jody Gladding, and Carlene Kucharczyk. Each poet will read from their work followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Writing Program Director, Sarah Audsley said, “It’s an honor to welcome these poets — who are also VSC Alumni and in some cases, former staff — to share their work with our community. Vermont’s poets are many and varied; these three poets’ work represent some of the best poetry in our small state.” VSC’s Writing Program supports writers working in all genres and features a Visiting Writers Program, which hosts nationally recognized writers who offer featured readings, craft talks, and manuscript consultations.
Learn more about VSC’s events and programming at . Vievee Francis will soon release her fifth volume of poetry, Cleaning the Houses of the Dead. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals including, Best American Poetry, , and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry.
Francis is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Jody Gladding is a poet and translator, with five books of poems and forty translations from French. Her most recent book, I entered without words, appeared in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets (2022).
Some of her awards include the Whiting Writer’s Award and Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her work explores the places where language and landscape converge. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.
Carlene Kucharczyk’s debut collection Strange Hymn is the winner of the Juniper Prize for a first book of poems and will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in April 2025. She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council, and her work has been published in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, and Permafrost Magazine, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. VSC’s special Vermont Poets Reading will take place from 2 to 3 p.
m. in the Red Mill in Johnson and includes light refreshments. A limited number of books will be available for sale thanks to our partnership with independent bookseller, Phoenix Books.
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