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Poets for Peecycling: 2022 Urine Donor Kickoff
You’re invited to Rich Earth’s 10-year anniversary celebration of peecycling in Vermont! Join us at our Urine Donor Kick-Off for poetry, piss-off awards, popcorn, and more. After two years of pandemic separation, we are thrilled to be hosting this event in person – to share our love for this community, our farms, and our watershed. We will be featuring readings from prominent Vermont poets on peecycling and related themes, in addition to the piss-off award ceremony and updates about Rich Earth’s work. There will be snacks and drinks available.
~THE POETS~
Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets, including I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, including two Pushcart volumes, What Saves Us (edited by Martin Espada), and American Religious Poems (edited by Harold Bloom). He is a Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College, and from 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.
Arlene Iris Distler is co-founder and currently President of Write Action, a Brattleboro-based writer’s non-profit. Write Action organizes Poems Around Town, a community project that puts poems written locally into shop windows downtown for the month of April. Distler has been giving readings in the area for many years. This fall Kelsay Press will publish her first full-length books of poems, This Earth, This Body. She has a chapbook, Voices Like Wind Chimes, published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Two of her poems will be in Chard deNiord and Sydney Lea’s upcoming, 3rd edition of “Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry.” Distler’s poems have appeared in many print and on-line journals.
Tim Mayo’s poems and reviews have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Avatar Review, Barrow Street, Narrative Magazine, ONE, Poetry International, Poet Lore, River Styx, Salamander, San Pedro River Review, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, Verse-Virtual, Web Del Sol Review of Books, and The Writer’s Almanac among other places. His second volume of poems, Thesaurus of Separation (Phoenicia Publishing 2016) was a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal and a finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award. He was a founding member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
