Flutists Lisa Nichols, of Putney, and Emma Hileman, of Ludlow, perform a series of delightful duets for your enjoyment! Come hear some wonderful music in the woods! Meets at the shelter. Free with park entry.
Enjoy song covers from the 70's to today! Concert free for campers. Meets near the Nature Center.
Young Writers Project (YWP) is an independent nonprofit that began in 2006 in Burlington, VT, with a mission to inspire, mentor, publish, and promote young writers and artists. All programming is free and revolves around the YWP website, youngwritersproject.org, where teens create and connect with each other, receive mentoring and support, and experience the joy of being published.
Patricia Austin was born and raised in Vermont and is of French, Scottish and Wabanaki descent. She works on special projects at Gedakina, a Native American non-profit organization assisting Indigenous families of the Northeast. Patricia is author of Wliniwaskw Wliahki ~ Good Spirit Good Earth, Photos & Poems written in Western Abenaki with English Translations, and Pâtisserie Gluten Free. She is currently working on a Wabanaki cookbook.
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design. A recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Olzmann’s poems have appeared in the New York Times, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prizes, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and also teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Michael Dumanis is the author of two books of poetry, Creature (Four Way Books, 2023), a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and The Big Other Book Award; and My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Common, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, he lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is a professor at Bennington College, where he also serves as editor of Bennington Review.
Adrie Kusserow is a cultural anthropologist and poet, the author of three books of poetry (REFUGE and Hunting Down the Monk published by BOA Editions, Ltd, New American Poets Series) and recently, THE TRAUMA MANTRAS: A Memoir in Prose Poems (Duke University Press, 2024), as well as an ethnography American Individualisms (Palgrave MacMillan, Culture, Mind and Society Series). She has taught at St. Michael’s College since 1996 where she is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Rage Hezekiah is a poet and educator, who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She is a Cave Canem, Ragdale, and MacDowell Fellow, a recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award, and a Vermont Arts Council Artist Development Grant. Her recent collection, Yearn, is a 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest winner and a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Vermont Book Award.
