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:
Automated closed captioning available
Verbal Description of self and surroundings by facilitators and readers
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Anni Paisely
I was born and raised in New York City. I grew up in Queens, the great melting pot. I’ve been writing since my teens. I now reside in Montpelier with my cat and lots of books. I sing in two choirs and am a musician/ songwriter. I don’t know what else to say but that I am committed to a life of love and justice

Ivy Schweitzer
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ivy Schweitzer now lives in Vermont and has taught American Literature and Women’s Studies at Dartmouth College. She writes about cultural identity and social justice from a feminist and Jewish perspective. Her poems have appeared recently in Passager, Ritualwell, Tikkun, New Croton Review, Mississippi Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners’ Anthology 2024 and The Mountain Troubadour. Her debut solo collection, Dividing Rivers, appeared in 2025 from Finishing Line Press. Visit her author page https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/.

Photo description: A pale skinned woman with blond, wavy hair, wearing glasses, a blue top, a turquoise ring, a multi-stranded lightly beaded necklace, and a thin wrist band, smiles, resting her chin in one hand, elbow on a table.

Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski is the author of Sanctuary, Vermont (Orison Books) and How to Prepare Bear (Redbird Chapbooks). Her work has appeared in On the Seawall, Poetry International, Narrative Magazine, The Missouri Review, I-70 Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, and other journals. She is editor of The Poetry Newsletter. She lives quietly in a small town in Vermont. Website: https://www.laurabwisniewski.com/