Lake Shaftsbury State Park

Eli Elkus is a Musical Storyteller, Song Craftsman, and Folk Activist. He began sculpting his craft as a young troubadour fishin' for songs by the riversides and busking in the streets of New England. It was here the love of folk music and storytelling found him, connecting with perfect strangers through meter, melody, and merit-making story and song. Music for the people, by the people. And so it went. 

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.