Vermont Humanities

Charles Rossiter

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Charles Rossiter, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, hosts the twice-monthly podcast series at www.poetryspokenhere.com. He has led workshops and taught at literary festivals, community organizations, libraries, prisons and schools from 10th grade to graduate level. His Ph.D. is in interpersonal communication and psychology and his poetry has been featured at the Dodge Festival in NJ and on NPR. His latest book of poems is Green Mountain Meditations. Others include: All Over America: Road Poems, Winter Poems, and Lakeside Poems. He edited the anthology, In the Spirit of T’ao Ch’ien, and co-edited the just-released, Coast to Coast: The Rte 20 Anthology.

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Bennington, Windham, Windsor, Rutland

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Series Led by Charles Rossiter

Vermont Humanities*** February 19, 2018

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Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.

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Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.

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We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”

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We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.

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Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.