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Exit Four Whale Dance
Lava Mueller – Soft

Randolph Village Laundromat
Robin Dellabough – Off the Mat
Sharon Hewitt – The Shell
Anne Bower – All We Take
Thelma Thompson – Laundry Days

Kimball Public Library
Gina Logan -Ahab’s Wife

Chandler Center for the Arts
Timothy Eberhardt – Eine Kleine Mozart

Randolph House
Sue Alenick – Camp Birchwoods
Tilly DalPra – Forget to Fly

Dubois & King
Mary Cheyne – Shooting Star
Cora Dunne: Secret
Cynthia Liepmann- Electric
Betsy Unger – Vernal Equinox

Super Suds Laundromat
Corinne Davis – Privileged
Terry Gibson – Soapbox Fumetto
NG Haiduck – The Fetal Position We All Know and Love
Janet Watton – Moonset

The Gear House
Sam Sanders – Spring
Sarah Snyder – E-Biking in Spring

Wee Bird Bagel Shop
Rose Kelman – Love

24 Pleasant Street
Corinne Davis -Delusions of Democracy
Barbara Harrington – Solstice Heart

The Underground Listening Room
Becky McMeekin – Exegesis
Kiev Rattee – Erosion of Season

The Herald of Randolph
Cynthia Liepmann – The Telling
Lava Mueller – Poems That Rhyme

Fisher Auto Parts
Douglas Currier – Last Poem For Randolph Vermont
Danny Dover – Owl
Maggie Eaton – Parting
Rachel – Subnivean
Debby Franzoni – Summer
Krikmöklet Egelanaard – Streówian Brúcan
Wilma Johnson – Abandonnment
Anne Kreisel – Fresh Start
Becky McMeekin – Our Lives Refract
Kathryn Samuelson – A Family Story
Barbara Stearns – Parenting
Peter Thompson – Fantasy in the Rear View Mirror
Evvi Tower-Pierce – Gas Station Coffee and Ghosts

The Red Door Jewelers
Anne Bower – Empathy
Evvi Tower-Pierce – Saltburned Pearl

One Main Building
Jeff Bernstein – After Dinner on Labor Day
Bill Pendergraft- Old Friends
Betsy Unger – Pinions
Wayne Burke – Morning Glory
Douglas Currier – A Rock and a Hard Place
Debby Franzoni – The Young Candidate
Terry Gibson – Running the Bulls
Barbara Harrington – This Fast Window
Rose Loving – The Church Bell
Christina Strong – Letter to Future You, unposted
Thelma Thompson – Nighttime Thoughts
Peggy Rose Whiteneck – In Praise of What Makes No Sense

Windy Lane Bakery
Robin Dellabough – 4 a.m. Peanut Butter
Kate Youngdahl-Stauss – Rescue Mission
Barbara Stearns – A Sense of Memories

Third Branch Pottery
Trish Alley – Fragile

Bar Harbor Bank and Trust
Ina Anderson – Returning
Abbie Castriotta – Those of Us Who Are Not Billionaires or Robots Will Understand
Nietzsche Danann Egelanaard – The Love Song of N. Danann Egelanaard
Cora Dunne – Darkness in a Jar
Sandy Edmonds – Sightlines
Amelia Gilchrist – Always Smile & An Enchanting Place
Dee Gish – Remembering Hope
Neal Harrington – Foreman
Wilma Johnson – Early September
Gina Logan – Poem for the Winter Solstice
Brigitte Lent – The Old Violin

Ken’s Barbershop
Herbert Goertz – Welcome Visitor

The Frankenburg Agency
Heather Wishik – The Warming

The New Moon
Kathryn Samuelson – Rings for Unmarried Girls of Louth

Northfield Savings Bank
Mark Andrews – Nobody Does Mail Order Anymore
JT Butler – A Note for the Underexperienced
Jon Kaplan – Two Cords
Barbara Rosenquist – The Heron
Peter Thompson – To An Old Friend

Wilson Tire
Lisa Burke – I Miss Saabs

Randolph Coal and Oil
Timothy Eberhardt – Time’s Flow
Peter Money – Edson’s Poem
Elaine Pentaleri – One Winter Afternoon
Kate Youngdahl-Stauss – Sugaring

Bob’s M & M
Nietzsche Danann Egelanaard – The Arsonist

The Chef’s Market
Sharon Hewitt – Wisdom
Janet Watton – Don’t Call Me Late For Dinner

Napa/Sanel
Jeff Bernstein – After the Flood
Lisa Burke – What is Really Happening
Ann Cooper – Windy Night
Nancy Hewitt – Wild Coneflowers
Brigitte Lent – Crossing the Border in Winter
Rebecca Matson -To the Mountains
Elaine Pentaleri – Estelle

The Playhouse
JT Butler – Still
William Graham – Silences
Nancy Hewitt – Chinese Checkers
Rebecca Matson – The Nature of Life Support
Christina Strong – Wood Stove

Beacon Printing
Mark Andrews – Gravity
Russell Rohloff – Line Upon Line Where Has the Poetry Gone
Heather Stearns – Power
Peggy Rose Whiteneck – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Randolph Regional Veterinary Hospital
Rachel Field -Unnamed Naming Poem
Debby Franzen – Cat in Her Lap
Anne Kreisel – Puppy Love
Bill Pendergast – Taking My Daughter to Vet School

Forest Walk
Ina Anderson – Song for the Snail
Anne Bergeron – I Wrap My Arms Around the Oldest Maple Tree
Herbert Goertz – Hummingbird
Neal Harrington – The Boy and the Boulder
Judy Crocker – The Icarus Factor
Maggie Eaton – Boundaries
William Graham – The Life of Rocks
Michele Reed – Into the Woods
Andrea Rogers – Cardinals

Bios

Bianca Stone is the author of five books, including the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award and The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and the forthcoming The Near and Distant World (Tin House, 2026). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Nation, and elsewhere. She co-founded and is creative director for the poetry-based nonprofit Ruth Stone House, where she teaches and hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast. She is currently serving as the 2024-2029 Vermont Poet Laureate.

Ina Anderson was born and raised in Cumbria in the northwest of England. She has now lived in Vermont for many years. Her first work was in editing scientific journals, including Icarus: International Journal of Solar System Science, with editor Carl Sagan. She later took to teaching, spending over twenty years at the Community College of Vermont as a faculty member and student advisor. Ina’s poems have appeared in many publications, including Birchsong, This Place I Know, When All This Is Over, The Mountain Troubadour, and Literary North. Several of her poems appeared in the Pie Poets anthologies, Perhaps It Was the Pie, 2014, and The Party Cabinet, 2023. Her first collection, Journey Into Space, published in 2017 by Antrim House, was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Her newest collection, Sky Furniture, was published by Kelsay Books in 2024.

Danny Dover is a retired piano technician living in Bethel, Vermont. Since 1995 his poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and in two previously published collections: Tasting Precious Metal and Kindness Soup, Thankful Tea. His third book, Flamingo Nation (Onion River Press), was released last year. In the words of James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart and Kindness Will Save the World: “Every poem [in Flamingo Nation]…. is precise yet effortless….Danny Dover cares deeply about his readers, crafting poems that help to make our ‘hardened world’ a better, more compassionate place…… I’m in love with the light-filled kindness that lives at the center of this life-giving and necessary new book.”

Greg Bernhardt is the author of Goats & Those Who Live by Them and the novel When Everything Was Possible. Greg is also a professional painter and an artisanal cheesemaker and farmer at Blue Ledge Farm, which he and his wife, Hannah Sessions, established in Addison County, Vermont in 2000. It is this livelihood, making cheese, making hay, animal husbandry, and working alongside his wife, which provides the subject matter he reflects upon in both painting and writing.

Katie Spring is a writer, mother, and co-creator of Good Heart Farmstead in Worcester, Vermont. She believes that creativity is as essential as food, and her writing is a testament to the ways that creativity nourishes us. Katie’s newsletter, Art & Soil, explores how we grow a world of connection, belonging, and really good food. Find her online at katiespring.substack.com.

Taylor Mardis Katz is a poet, herb farmer, and shopkeeper living in Chelsea, VT. A native New Yorker, she has lived in Vermont since 2012, when she and her partner started Free Verse Farm. Taylor’s poems have been published in a variety of literary journals and nontraditional periodicals, recited on radio stations across the state, featured on the podcast Brave Little State, and shown up in all sorts of other wild and whimsical places. While still in the process of finding a home for her first full-length manuscript, she is working to publish a letterpress chapbook with a local printmaker this winter.

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