VJP readings are designed to deepen our connections as a community. Each poet will read for 15 minutes, followed by a brief period of audience comments.

A list of the readers and bios is below. Zoom link is here

Accessibility Services for our readings include:
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Verbal Description of self and surroundings by facilitators and readers
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Terry Hauptman
Terry Hauptman’s eighth full-length volume of poetry just come out this past September. She holds a Master’s degree in poetry from The University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D in interdisciplinary studies from Ohio University.  She reads her poetry rhapsodically and exhibits her 5’x 49’ figurative scrolls nationally.  She has taught World Art, Poetry and Ethnopoetics at several universities and workshops, most recently at Green Mountain College.

Beth Kanell
Beth Kanell, https://bethkanell.blogspot.com, lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and a lot of writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including Lilith Magazine, The Comstock Review, Indianapolis Review, Gyroscope Review, The Jewish Writing Project, The Post-Grad Journal, Does It Have Pockets?, Anti-Heroin Chic, Ritualwell, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, RockPaperPoem, and Rise Up Review.  Her collection Thresholds is due in 2026 from Kelsay Books. She also writes feature articles, short stories, reviews, and novels, most recently The Bitter and the Sweet.

Photo description Beth Kannell: Seen from the shoulders up, a light skinned woman with long, curly, gray hair, wearing a black top with a light brown scarf, stands outside with a gray sky behind her, a thoughtful look on her face.

Heather Wishik
Heather Wishik is a poet and visual artist living in Woodstock, Vermont. She studied poetry with Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHue at Goddard College, and has taken workshops with Marie Howe, Susanna Sonnenberg, Jessica Greenbaum and others since. Her poems have been published most recently in Dreamers Creative Writing, and Sprout: An Eco Urban Poetry Journal, and anthologized in New Lesbian Writing (M. Cruikshank, Ed.) and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Larkin and Morse, Eds). Her memoir in poetry and was on display as a one woman show at the Norman Williams Public Library in 2024 and at the Kellogg Hubbard Library in 2025.

Photo description: Seen from the shoulders up, a pale-skinned woman with thick, wavy, brown hair wearing hoop earrings and a light purple jacket smiles in a close-up portrait.