9 AM-4 PM
FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY 2009 FALL USED BOOK SALE

The Friends of the Fletcher Free Library, sponsors of the Burlington Book Festival, will hold their annual Fall Used Book Sale from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 24, 25, and 26 in the Community Room of the Library at 235 College Street, Burlington. Sorted by category, over 12,000 items will be available for purchase at very low prices. The selection includes fiction and nonfiction books, oversized art books or coffee table books in nearly-new condition, books for children of all ages, videos, CDs, DVDs and tapes. Modern firsts and signed books will also be available at very modest prices. New this year are many complete issues of comics, in archival envelopes, as well as individual comics. Proceeds from the book sale support library programs. For information contact Adrienne Donohue at 862-5153 or Jody Kebabian at 658-0245.

Noon, 2 PM & 4 PM
INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR

Part scathing critique, part call to action, “Independent Media in a Time of War” is a hard-hitting documentary by the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center. The film is composed of a speech given by award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, illustrated by clips of mainstream media juxtaposed with rare footage from independent reporters in Iraq. The documentary argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. “Independent media has a crucial responsibility to go to where the silence is,” says Amy Goodman, “to represent the diverse voices of people engaged in dissent.” She makes a compelling argument that the commercial news media have failed to represent the “true face of war.” Amy Goodman is also the coauthor, with David Goodman, of the New York Times bestseller Standing Up to the Madness.

Fletcher Free Library
The Pickering Room

12: 30 PM, 2:30 PM & 4:30 PM
THE MCCOURTS OF NEW YORK

This powerful documentary follows the lives of the McCourt brothers following their immigration to America from Ireland. Frank McCourt is the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel Angela's Ashes and is the main focus in the film, but he is not the only well-known McCourt brother. Malachy McCourt founded a famous bar in New York City
and eventually became a popular talk show host. “The McCourts of New York” is a heartwarming work that shows the potential for any person to succeed in America while proving there's more to the colorful family than the earlier events immortalized in Angela's Ashes. Here we follow the brothers—Frank, Malachy, Mike and Alphie—through
their adventures in America, beginning with Frank's arrival in New York in 1949. Anecdotes flow like Guinness, accompanied by a wealth of family photos, home movies and video. But what anchors this clan is their Irishness in America, the history that made them who they are and the miseries that make their success and survival so deeply rewarding. Lovingly directed by Malachy's son Conor, this heartfelt film culminates in the symbolic burial of the McCourt's long-lost sister Mary Margaret, commemorated by a brass nameplate in a New York cemetery. The rush of emotions is powerful here and we come away with an even deeper appreciation for this wonderful family and the deeprooted joys and sorrows that resonate on a universal level through the writing of Frank McCourt.

The late Frank McCourt had graciously agreed to give a reading on Saturday of the
Festival weekend. This film is shown with gratitude and great fondness in his memory.

Fletcher Free Library
The Fletcher Room

5-7 PM
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE PUBLISHING INITIATIVE OFFICIAL LAUNCH

Champlain College is delighted to send out into the world the first two representatives of its Emerging Talent Series, Christopher Lawless and Alison Wisch. Even though he graduated from the college's Professional Writing Program only four months ago, Chris, the author of East Slade, Maine, is already a widely published poet who has read at the Burlington Book Festival's Grace Paley Poetry Series for the past two years. He's currently working on a nonfiction book to be published in 2010 by The Champlain College Publishing Initiative. Ali Wisch is still an undergraduate in the Professional Writing Program but her humor writing has been published widely online by outlets including Sports Illustrated. Her first play, 25 Squirrels, moves her humor literally onto a new stage and showcases her flawless ear for dialogue. The staged reading of this play at the Burlington Book Festival on Saturday is 25 Squirrels' world premiere. Both books also represent the emergence of The Champlain College Publishing Initiative, the college's own micro-publishing company. The Champlain College Publishing Initiative pledges to publish two works by outstanding Champlain undergraduates every year, as well as other academic and general books and other online, audio and video products.
For more information, e-mail Tim Brookes (brookes@champlain.edu) or visit www.timbrookesinc.com.

The Atrium, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

5:30-8:30 PM
POJAZZ

A Burlington Book Festival kick-off tradition, PoJazz showcases the best of Northern New England's jazz musicians and poets in a cabaret format. PoJazzers believe that jazz, especially "the blues," tells stories and that poetry at its lyrical best is never far from music and dance. In each PoJazz performance, poets read from their own written work while musicians interweave riffs that erupt from both the rhythms of a poetic line and the musical phrase. PoJazz has made numerous appearances in the North Country, including performances at Johnson State College, Champlain College, SUNYPlattsburgh, Vermont College, Nectar's, The Island Arts Festival, Montpelier's First Night, The Black Door, Halvorson’s and many venues in northern Vermont. Friday night’s performance will be led by renowned poet Jim Ellefson.

Red Square, Church Street

7-7:45 PM
2009 OPENING CEREMONIES AND FESTIVAL DEDICATION

Sponsored by The University of Vermont
Featuring Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Bob Kiss, Stern Center President Blanche Podhajski, Major Jackson, Sabra Field Festival Dedicatee Mary Azarian and others. Hosted by Fran Stoddard.

The Film House
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

8 PM
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER AND FORMER POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES RITA DOVE

Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. She has received numerous literary and academic honors, among them the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and, more recently, the 2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, the 2001 Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1997 Sara Lee Frontrunner Award, the 1997 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, the 1996 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. In 2006 she received the coveted Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (together with Anderson Cooper, John Glenn, Mike Nichols and Queen Noor of Jordan) and in 2008 she was honored with the Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. A 1970 Presidential Scholar, she received her B.A. summa cum laude from Miami University of Ohio and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. She has published the poetry collections The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), Museum (1983), Thomas and Beulah (1986), Grace Notes (1989), Selected Poems (1993), Mother Love (1995), On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), American Smooth (2004), a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985), the novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992), essays under the title The Poet's World (1995) and the play The Darker Face of the Earth, which had its world premiere in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was subsequently produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Royal National Theatre in London and other theaters. Seven for Luck, a song cycle for soprano and orchestra with music by John Williams, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. She is the editor of Best American Poetry 2000 and, from January 2000 to January 2002, she wrote a weekly column, "Poet's Choice," for The Washington Post. Her latest poetry collection, Sonata Mulattica, was published by W.W. Norton this spring. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, the writer Fred Viebahn. They have a grown daughter, Aviva Dove-Viebahn. Ms. Dove will read from her work and answer questions from the audience. A book signing will follow directly in the Lake Lobby. Ms. Dove’s appearance is generously sponsored by the University of Vermont.

The Film House
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ONGOING SATURDAY:

BOOK SIGNINGS & SALES

Pick up personally inscribed copies of titles you'll treasure from this year's participants at the Festival Bookstore. Book sales provided on site by Phoenix Books & Cafe, a locally owned, unique and independent bookstore located at the Essex Shoppes & Cinema.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Lake & College Performing Arts Center

BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL BOOTH

Festival staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions, offer directions, hand out program guides and sell refreshing bottled water. Contributions to the BBF Donation Box are tax deductible and greatly appreciated. If they’ve not already sold out, advance tickets for the evening's 7 PM Onion benefit performance will be on sale throughout the morning and afternoon.

BURLINGTON COLLEGE INFORMATION TABLE

It has long been a tradition at Burlington College for students to design majors that meet their own particular needs and interests. The individualized major can be a variation on one of the College’s existing majors or it can be a course of study unique to the student’s interests. Self-designed majors students have pursued include Arts and Social Change; Culture and Community; Children’s Literature; Communications; Creative Arts Therapy; Creativity, Culture and Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Literature; Transpersonal Studies/Writing; and Writing and Film. No matter how a student goes about pursuing his/her study, whether it be through Burlington College’s distance learning, the campus-based program or a combination of the two, a faculty advisor will work with the student to develop a sound, rigorous program that meets both the needs of the student and the academic requirements of the College. Stop by the Burlington College table to learn more.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

CLiF INFORMATION CENTER

The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture a love of reading and writing among children throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. Since 1998 CLiF has served more than 80,000 children in more than 340 communities. Through 15 free programs, CLiF serves children in rural areas where resources are limited and children are at high risk of growing up with low literacy skills. The organization offers storytelling programs to thousands of children each year, sponsors writing workshops in schools and donates approximately $150,000 worth of new, high-quality children's books every year. Visit their table to learn more about their work to reach out to young readers and writers.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

FREE RARE BOOK APPRAISALS

Courtesy of The Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS OF NEW ENGLAND DISPLAY
There are more book publishers in our local area than most people realize. Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) will display information about the region's many independent presses, and locally published authors will be on hand to discuss and sign their books. Drop by for a schedule of author appearances and to find out more about the small presses that are responsible for more than half of the books published in the US each year.

Lake Lobby Extension, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

LEAGUE OF VERMONT WRITERS INFORMATION TABLE

For more than three quarters of a century this statewide organization has offered support, encouragement and motivation to writers everywhere. Visit their information center to find out what they may be able to do for you. Or what you may want to do for them.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

NEW YORK TIMES BOOTH

Visit The New York Times booth for reduced home delivery and receive a free gift with subscription. The New York Times newspaper is distributed internationally and is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States. Although nicknamed the “Gray Lady” for its staid appearance and style, it is frequently relied upon as the official and authoritative reference for modern events. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 94 Pulitzer prizes, winning its first in 1918 for its World War I reporting. Subscribe Today!

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY INFORMATION CENTER

Union Institute & University admissions staff will be on hand to talk to you about individualized
programs that serve the needs of adult learners like you. UI&U offers B. A., M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. Psy.D., & Ph.D. degrees.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS TABLE

Come visit us at the Vermont College of Fine Arts table. Chosen one of the top five writing programs of its kind in the country by Atlantic Monthly magazine, VCFA is the only low-residency graduate school in the country devoted exclusively to fine arts education and is located right in Vermont’s capital city. Find out how you can pursue your MFA in our three nationally successful programs in Visual Art, Writing, and Writing for Children & Young Adults. And for those alumni attending or presenting during the Festival—and there were many of you at last year’s event—please be sure to stop by and say hello.

9AM-4PM
FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY 2009 FALL USED BOOK SALE

The Friends of the Fletcher Free Library, sponsors of the Burlington Book Festival, will hold their annual Fall Used Book Sale from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 24, 25, and 26 in the Community Room of the Library at 235 College Street, Burlington. Sorted by category, over 12,000 items will be available for purchase at very low prices. The selection includes fiction and nonfiction books, oversized art books or coffee table books in nearly new condition, books for children of all ages, videos, CDs, DVDs and tapes. Modern firsts and signed books will also be available at very modest prices. New this year are many complete issues of comics, in archival envelopes, as well as individual comics. Proceeds from the book sale support library programs. For information, contact Adrienne Donohue at 862-5153 or Jody Kebabian at 658-0245.

10-11 AM
CASTLE FREEMAN, JR.

Castle Freeman, Jr. is the award-winning author of three previous novels, a story collection and a collection of essays. He has been the lead essayist for The Old Farmer’s Almanac since 1982 and, starting this year, will contribute essays to each issue of Vermont Life magazine. He will read from his latest release, All That I Have, the gripping, wise and darkly funny tale of Sheriff Lucian Wing, an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. When the outside world draws near and threats multiply, the sheriff responds to these diverse challenges with all the personal resources he has cultivated during his working life: patience, tact and (especially) humor.

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

DON BREDES

Don Bredes, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, was born in New York City. He received his MFA in Fiction from the University of California at Irvine and he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of five novels, most recently The Errand Boy, the third novel in his Hector Bellevance literary suspense series. Don has received grants for his fiction from the Vermont Council on the Arts and from the National Endowment of the Arts. His reviews, essays, and stories have appeared in many publications, including the Paris Review, Penthouse, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He will read from, discuss and sign copies of his latest work.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

RON KRUPP

Ron Krupp, author of The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening and Vermont Public Radio’s “Garden and Farm” commentator for the past 8 years, will read from his new book, Lifting The Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis. Ron's gardening book received the Christian Science Monitor Garden Book of the Year Award for New England in 2002. Lifting the Yoke deals with many of the farm and food issues in the news on a daily basis, such as globalization, hunger and obesity—and local, sustainable solutions.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

THOMAS A. MIDDLETON
Thomas A. Middleton went from being a suburban dad to a National Guard combat medic traveling between platoons, filling in for other medics and engaging in some of the fiercest fighting of the Iraq War. Saber’s Edge is the story of a middle-aged Vermont firefighter called upon to be a soldier in the worst place on Earth: Ramadi, Iraq. Based on the author’s first-hand experiences and interviews with other soldiers, Saber’s Edge presents a riveting account of modern urban warfare and the inspiring story of one man’s reconciling his actions. Thomas will read from and sign copies of his account of life on the front lines.

Borders Books & Music

12-5 PM
INVASION OF THE ROVING POETS!

Church Street is invaded throughout the afternoon by hordes of talented Burlington College
bards engaging in public displays of poetry.

Church Street Marketplace

11:30 AM-12:30 PM
JENNIFER HAIGH

Jennifer Haigh was born and raised in western Pennsylvania, educated at Dickinson College and at the Iowa Writers Workshop and now is a fellow New Englander living in Boston. Her first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She followed that debut with Baker Towers, which went on to become a New York Times best seller and a winner of the PEN/ L.L. Winship Award for outstanding fiction by a New England author. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points and Good Housekeeping. Her latest book, from which she’ll read, is entitled The Condition. Kirkus Reviews has described it as “filled with genuine insight and touching lyricism.” Publishers Weekly declared it “poignant.” "Jennifer Haigh illuminates the dark tangle of desire and deeds that is the family, that crucible we so often yearn to flee yet keep coming back to again and again. The Condition is unsentimental, compelling and moving. I urge you to read it," raves Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award finalist House of Sand and Fog.

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

JULIE OTSUKA

Told from multiple points of view, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka chronicles the heartbreaking evacuation experience of an unnamed Japanese-American family during World War II. Otsuka’s novel takes an unflinching and unsentimental look inside a stark shadow of America’s past: the Japanese-American internment camps. The novel explores themes of fear, loneliness, heroism, the American dream and its deferment, cultural divides and how a family, a community, or a country responds when under duress. When the Emperor Was Divine is the 2009 selection of Vermont Reads, a statewide, one book-one community reading program sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

AMANDA BOYDEN

Amanda Boyden is the author of two novels. Pretty Little Dirty, her first, is in its fifth printing. Her second, Babylon Rolling, was released in August 2008, with the paperback released this August. A four-out-of-four star People Magazine reviewed pick, the novel has received broad praise from the San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Canada’s Globe and Mail and many other respected publications. Amanda has published short stories and essays in numerous venues, including Macleans, The Sonora Review and Mid-American Review. Married to Canadian author Joseph Boyden, she lives and works in Louisiana, where she teaches in the graduate writing program of the University of New Orleans. She will read from her latest novel.
Great Room, 3rd Floor

Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

TOM SLAYTON

Tom Slayton was editor-in-chief of Vermont Life Magazine for 21 years, and is now Editor Emeritus of that publication. His book, Sabra Field, the Art of Place, was published in 1994 and republished in 2002. He is also the author of The Beauty of Vermont, published in 1998, Finding Vermont, An Informal Guide to Vermont's Places and People, as well as last year’s Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England. Mr. Slayton is also a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and recently edited the latest publication from the Green Mountain Club, A Century in the Mountains: Celebrating Vermont’s Long Trail. Beautifully illustrated with more than 185 historic and contemporary scenic photographs, A Century in the Mountains is the definitive work celebrating and documenting Vermont’s Long Trail and the men and women who built it. Mr. Slayton will read from the book, take questions and sign copies.

Borders Books & Music

FINDING A PUBLISHER FOR YOUR BOOK: AN INSIDER’S GUIDE

Changing circumstances in the book world have made it more difficult than ever for both first-time and even previously published authors to successfully find a publisher for their work. Opportunities still exist, however, and success is more likely when authors know the proper steps to take and how to best make today’s technology work for them. William Notte, Acquisitions Editor for Tuttle Publishing, will give a presentation that takes hopeful authors through the proper steps necessary for seeing one’s book through to publication: from the importance of doing initial research and crafting a good cover letter to how to use the Internet to best advantage. A question and answer session will follow.

Fletcher Free Library
The Pickering Room

1- 2 PM
BRAD KESSLER

Brad Kessler is the author of the recent memoir Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding and the Art of Making Cheese. His novels include Birds in Fall and Lick Creek. A recipient of the 2008 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has also won a Whiting Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Birds in Fall. His work has appeared, among other places, in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Bomb. He lives in Vermont with the photographer Dona Ann McAdams where they raise dairy goats and make cheese.

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

JOE GARDEN

Joe Garden is one of this country’s preeminent and most prolific comedy writers. He is currently a features editor at The Onion, where he created the characters Jim Anchower and Jackie Harvey. He has co-written numerous books including The Dangerous Book For Dogs and The Devious Book For Cats in addition to The Onion’s long list of New York Times best-sellers. Joe has also been a contributing writer for the PBS animated children’s program WordGirl, has appeared in the film Bad Meat and was the voice of Phil Cabinet in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode “Hypno-Germ.” At this year’s Festival he’ll read from his latest release, The New Vampire’s Handbook: A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

JOSEPH BOYDEN

Joseph Boyden is a mixed-blood Canadian writer. His first novel, Three Day Road, which has been published in eleven languages, was selected for the Today Show Book Club and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. He was awarded the prestigious Giller Prize for his novel Through Black Spruce. Joseph divides his time between northern Ontario and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ARNOLD KOZAK

Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. is the author of Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Vermont, a lecturer in psychology for the University of Vermont and a Clinical Instructor in Medicine for the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Dr. Kozak received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his doctoral degree from the University at Buffalo. He completed his internship as a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1989 and yoga since 1983. Arnie has a longstanding interest in metaphors for clinical change and has taught metaphors for mindfulness in his mindfulness-based clinical practice, The Exquisite Mind, at the University of Vermont, in workshops to health care professionals and in consultation with athletes and corporations. He will read from and sign copies of his recent release.

Borders Books & Music

25 SQUIRRELS: A STAGED READING

A hilarious short play by Allison Wisch about death, responsibility, organized crime, a cat and some important life lessons about how to dispose of your household garbage. (Adult language, strong smells.) Allison Wisch is a senior in the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College.

Fletcher Free Library
The Fletcher Room

WRITING FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS: A PANEL WITH THE PROS

Join five children’s and YA authors for a discussion of the joys and challenges of writing for young readers. Julie Berry, Jo Knowles, Kate Messner, Tanya Lee Stone and Linda Urban will share ideas on everything from craft to getting published and answer your questions about writing for kids.

The Panel:

Julie Berry is the author of The Amaranth Enchantment, a fairy-tale fantasy published in 2009 from Bloomsbury. The novel has been named a Junior Library Guild selection and was the winner of the Vermont College Program Prize in 2007. Julie earned an MFA in writing for children from Vermont College in 2008. Originally from Western New York, she now lives outside Boston with her husband and four young sons and works in software sales and marketing. www.julieberrybooks.com

Jo Knowles is the author of the young adult novels Lessons from a Dead Girl and Jumping off Swings (Candlewick Press). She was the 2005 recipient of the PEN New England Children’s Book Discovery Award. Jo teaches writing for children in the SimmonsCollege MFA program at the Eric Carle Museum. She lives in Hartland, Vermont. www.joknowles.com

Kate Messner is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z, a middle grade novel set in Vermont and published by Walker Books for Young Readers. She has also written two historical novels set on Lake Champlain and several books forthcoming from Scholastic and Chronicle. Kate is a National Board Certified middle school English teacher living on Lake Champlain with her husband and two kids. www.katemessner.com

Tanya Lee Stone is an award-winning author of books for kids and teens with nearly 90 books to her name, including A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, Elizabeth Leads the Way, Sandy's Circus, Amelia Earhart, and Almost Astronauts. She has received starred reviews and awards such as ALA Quick Picks, ALA Notable, CBC Notable Social Studies, Amelia Bloomer Award, Kansas State Reading Circle, IRA Young Adult Choice, Booklist Top 10, Texas Tayshas, and Kentucky Bluegrass. This year, Sandy's Circus is a Vermont Red Clover Book. Next up is Barbie: For Better, For Worse. Publishers Weekly says, "Stone fires up readers." www.tanyastone.com

Linda Urban's debut novel, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, received the Mitten Award for Outstanding Children's Literature from the Michigan Library Association. The book has also been honored as a New York Public Library Best Book for Reading and Sharing and an ALSC Notable Children's Recording. Her first picture book, Mouse Was Mad, was published in May. For more than a decade, Ms. Urban served as marketing director for Vroman's Bookstore, one of the country's largest independents. She lives in East Montpelier with her husband and two kids, all of whom love to be read to. www.lindaurbanbooks.com

Fletcher Free Library
The Pickering Room

2:30-3:30 PM
JOYCE MAYNARD

Joyce Maynard first came to national attention with the publication of The New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life” in 1973, when she was a freshman at Yale. Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a contributor to the CBS program “Spectrum,” a syndicated newspaper columnist whose “Domestic Affairs” column appeared in over fifty papers nationwide, a regular contributor to NPR and national magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Salon, San Francisco Magazine, USA Weekly and many more. Her published works include the novels To Die For (on which the movie starring Nicole Kidman was based), The Usual Rules, The Cloud Chamber and the 1998 memoir, At Home in the World, which chronicled her complex relationship with J.D. Salinger. She will read from her new release, Labor Day, the story of a 13-year-old boy, his reclusive single mom and an escapee from a nearby prison—the subject of a major manhunt—who turns out to be just what the woman needs after years of post divorce isolation. “Labor Day works,” raves Entertainment Weekly, “by smartly focusing on the blinkered and somewhat naive perspective of (the young son) Henry.”

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

BLAKE BAILEY

Blake Bailey is the author of Cheever: A Life, recently hailed by the book editors of Amazon.com as one of the “Best Books of the Year…So Far,” a mid-year retrospective highlighting the finest works that have been released in 2009 from January through June. Declares Senior Book Editor Brad Thomas Parsons, “This outstanding, unprecedented biography of American writer John Cheever clocks in at nearly 800 pages but don’t let that dissuade you—I read it one sitting.” Bailey is also the editor of a two volume edition of Cheever ’s work published in 2009 by The Library of America. His last book, a biography of the writer Richard Yates entitled A Tragic Honesty, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mr. Bailey received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2005, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The New York Observer and elsewhere. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ROBIN LIPPINCOTT

Robin Lippincott will read from his work, which includes three novels: In the Meantime, Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor and Mr. Dalloway, now in its fourth printing, as well as a collection of short stories, The Real, True Angel. His fiction has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the American Library Association Roundtable Award, the Independent Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He is a multiple Yaddo fellow as well as a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. His fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review, The Bloomsbury Review and many other journals. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Spalding University and at Harvard University. Mr. Lippincott lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ROBERT COHEN

Robert Cohen is the author of the novel Amateur Barbarians, just out from Scribner. His other novels include Inspired Sleep, The Here and Now and The Organ Builder. For these he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Lila Wallace Writers Award, a Ribalow Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in, among other places, Harpers, the Atlantic, GQ, Ploughshares, Slate and The Believer. Robert will read from his latest release.

Borders Books & Music

ON THE BEACH: WRITERS IN A BEACH BOOK WORLD

What is the role of creative writers—of fiction, poetry, theater—in these times of multiplecrises? Does the written word retain substantial cultural influence or has it beeneclipsed by the onslaught of visual imagery? Has the American public lost the ability to read works of any complexity? Our panel will feature writers in three different genres who will briefly discuss their recent experiences with these issues. Taking part will be novelist Marc Estrin, playwright Dana Yeaton and poet Greg Delanty. There will be ample time for audience members to comment on their feelings about literature in the world.

Fletcher Free Library
The Pickering Room

4-5 PM
AMY & DAVID GOODMAN

Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and host/executive producer of Democracy Now!, an award-winning, independent,international news program airing daily on 700 radio and television stations in NorthAmerica. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts." Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award—widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”—for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” Goodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Project Censored. Goodman received the first ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006), and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column, “Breakingthe Sound Barrier” (also produced as an audio podcast), syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR stations, low power FM, college and community radio stations as well as Public Access TV and PBS stations and on both TV satellite networks: DISH Network channel 9415 Free Speech TV, 9410 Link TV and on Direct TV channel
375. Democracy Now! is also available at www.democracynow.org.

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist, a contributing writer for Mother Jones and the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers he co-authored with his sister. He is also author of the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa (2002). David Goodman’s articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, The Nation and numerous other publications. Goodman has been a frequent guest on national radio and television shows, including PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!, NPR's Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation and CNN. His reporting is included in the American Empire Project book, In the Name of Democracy (2005) and No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 (2007). Amy and David will discuss their latest release, answer questions from the audience and sign copies of their books in the Lake Lobby following their appearance.

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

7 PM
The 5th Annual
STATE OF THE ONION ADDRESS

Join editors and writers of the world's most popular humor publication for an evening of scathingly funny commentary and political satire. Meet the people behind the New York Times bestsellers and the publication the New Yorker has hailed as "arguably the most popular humor periodical in world history." Advance tickets will be available at Borders and the City Market customer service counter. On the day of the show, tickets may also be purchased at the Burlington Book Festival booth in the Lake Lobby throughout the morning and afternoon. Please be aware that tickets traditionally sell out quickly.

Film House, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ONGOING SUNDAY:

BOOK SIGNINGS & SALES

Pick up personally inscribed copies of titles you'll treasure from this year's participants at the Festival Bookstore. Book sales provided on site by Phoenix Books & Cafe, a locally owned, unique and independent bookstore located at the Essex Shoppes & Cinema.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Lake & College Performing Arts Center

BURLINGTON BOOK FESTIVAL BOOTH

Festival staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions, offer directions, hand out program guides and sell refreshing bottled water. Contributions to the BBF Donation Box are tax deductible and greatly appreciated.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

BURLINGTON COLLEGE INFORMATION TABLE

It has long been a tradition at Burlington College for students to design majors that meet their own particular needs and interests. The individualized major can be a variation on one of the College’s existing majors or it can be a course of study unique to the student’s interests. Self-designed majors students have pursued include Arts and Social Change; Culture and Community; Children’s Literature; Communications; Creative Arts Therapy; Creativity, Culture and Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Literature; Transpersonal Studies/Writing; and Writing and Film. No matter how a student goes about pursuing his/her study, whether it be through Burlington College’s distance learning, the campus-based program or a combination of the two, a faculty advisor will work with the student to develop a sound, rigorous program that meets both the needs of the student and the academic requirements of the College. Stop by the Burlington College table to learn more.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

CLiF INFORMATION CENTER

The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture a love of reading and writing among children throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. Since 1998 CLiF has served more than 80,000 children in more than 340 communities. Through 15 free programs, CLiF serves children in rural areas where resources are limited and children are at high risk of growing up with low literacy skills. The organization offers storytelling programs to thousands of children each year, sponsors writing workshops in schools and donates approximately $150,000 worth of new, high-quality children's books every year. Visit their table to learn more about their work to reach out to young readers and writers.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

FREE RARE BOOK APPRAISALS

Courtesy of The Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS OF NEW ENGLAND DISPLAY
There are more book publishers in our local area than most people realize. Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) will display information about the region's many independent presses, and locally published authors will be on hand to discuss and sign their books. Drop by for a schedule of author appearances and to find out more about the small presses that are responsible for more than half of the books published in the US each year.

Lake Lobby Extension, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

LEAGUE OF VERMONT WRITERS INFORMATION TABLE
For more than three quarters of a century this statewide organization has offered support, encouragement and motivation to writers everywhere. Visit their information center to find out what they may be able to do for you. Or what you may want to do for them.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

NEW YORK TIMES BOOTH

Visit The New York Times booth for reduced home delivery and receive a free gift with subscription. The New York Times newspaper is distributed internationally and is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States. Although nicknamed the “Gray Lady” for its staid appearance and style, it is frequently relied upon as the official and authoritative reference for modern events. Founded in 1851, the newspaper has won 94 Pulitzer prizes, winning its first in 1918 for its World War I reporting. Subscribe Today!

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

UNION INSTITUTE & UNIVERSITY INFORMATION CENTER

Union Institute & University Admissions staff will be on hand to talk to you about individualized programs that serve the needs of adult learners like you. UI&U offers B.A., M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. Psy.D., & Ph.D. degrees.

Lake Lobby, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Cente

VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS TABLE

Come visit us at the Vermont College of Fine Arts table. Chosen one of the top five writing programs of its kind in the country by Atlantic Monthly, VCFA is the only low residency graduate school in the country devoted exclusively to fine arts education and is located right in Vermont’s capital city. Find out how you can pursue your MFA in our three nationally successful programs in Visual Art, Writing and Writing for Children & Young Adults. And for those alumni attending or presenting during the Festival—and there were many of you at last year’s event—please be sure to stop by and say hello.

The 5th Annual
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CELEBRATION

Sponsored by The Children’s Literacy Foundation

10:00 AM-11:00 AM
LORI WEBER

Lori Weber is the author of five young adult novels, the most recent, If You Live Like Me, published by Lobster Press this year. She began her writing career by publishing short stories and poems in various Canadian literary journals, then in 2003 decided to try writing young adult fiction, a genre which she loves and which suits her writing style. Her first novel, Klepto, was selected an ALA best pick in 2004. Her second novel, Split, was followed by Tattoo Heaven and Strange Beauty. She currently lives in Pointe-Claire, Quebec with her husband, daughter, two cats and a vast salt and pepper collection.

Borders Books & Music

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
RITA MURPHY

Rita Murphy writes middle grade and young adult fiction. In 1999 her first novel, Night Flying, won the Delatorre Press Prize at Random House Children's Books, was voted one of the Best Books for Young Adults by The American Library Association and Smithsonian Magazine in 2000 and has been translated into ten languages. Chosen a Flying Start Author by Publisher's Weekly, Ms. Murphy is the author of five novels: Night Flying (2000), Black Angels (2001), Harmony (2002), Looking For Lucy Buick (2005) and Bird (2008). She studied writing at the University of Vermont and dance at The Natrona Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She has been a creative writing instructor at The Monteverdi Friends School in Monteverdi, Costa Rica, a guest author in Vermont public schools and is currently on the faculty of The Bread loaf Young Writers Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. She will read from her latest book.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

AMY SEIDL

As an ecologist, activist and mother of two girls, Amy Seidl writes with a lucid and passionate eye about the state of life itself in the age of global warming in her book Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World (2009). By drawing on her 20-year career studying ecology, evolution and butterflies across the North American continent, Seidl illuminates the historical significance and everyday local impacts of global warming on the 21st century landscape. A passionate speaker on contemporary environmental issues, Seidl frequently lectures on climate change, renewable energy, local food systems, and the emerging field of sustainability science. She received her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Vermont and has taught in the Environmental Programs at UVM and Middlebury College. Amy will preview her work in progress, Lilacs in the Dooryard, a children’s book on climate change.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

SUSAN MITCHELL
Susan Mitchell has illustrated over a dozen children’s books, including Claire and the Unicorn by B.G. Hennessy, Pumpkin Baby by Jane Yolen and My First Cookbook by Paula Deen. Originally from Scotland, Susan now lives in Montreal with her husband, author P.J. Bracegirdle and their son, Ewan.

Borders Books & Music

12:30-1:30 PM
HARRY BLISS

Harry Bliss is a children’s book illustrator, an internationally syndicated cartoonist, cover artist for The New Yorker magazine and a perennial favorite of the Festival. His most recently published titles are Louise: The Adventure of a Chicken, a picture book written by Kate DeCamillo; Death by Laughter, a cartoon collection for adults; and Luke on the Loose, his debut comic book for children. Harry will read and draw scribble pictures with kids from the audience. Lucky scribblers will take home an original Harry Bliss drawing!

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ELIZABETH BLUEMLE

Elizabeth Bluemle co-owns the Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne. She holds an MFA degree in Writing for Children from Vermont College. My Father the Dog, her first children’s book, is pure fiction, she insists. "This book is not based on my very own father. Honest, Dad, it's not.” Her next release was entitled Dogs on the Bed. Elizabeth’s recently released picture book is called How Do You Wokka-Wokka? and is sure to get readers aged 2-8 up and moving! She’ll read from and sign copies of her richly imaginative, highly acclaimed work.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

P. J. BRACEGIRDLE

P. J. Bracegirdle is the author of the middle-grade trilogy, The Joy of Spooking, and the forthcoming picture book The Dead Family Diaz. Before becoming a children’s writer, P. J. did everything from tending the stage door of a haunted old Scottish theater to pushing laundry carts through dark tunnels under an insane asylum. Spending several years in Edinburgh, he now lives once again in Montreal—the city of his birth—with children’s book illustrator Susan Mitchell and their son, Ewan.

Borders Books & Music

2:00-3:00 PM
STEPHEN HUNECK

Stephen’s philosophy is “Do what makes you happy.” “I love my dogs,” he says, “so I portray them in my art.” Stephen has also written three books inspired by his Black Lab, Sally: the classic My Dog’s Brain, and the New York Times best sellers Sally Goes to the Beach and Sally Goes to the Mountains. All are illustrated with Stephen’s colorful woodcut prints. After a near death experience, Stephen had a vision to build a Dog Chapel, “A place where people can go and celebrate the spiritual bond they have with their dogs. It is the largest artwork of my life and my most personal.” Stephen realized his dream. The Dog Chapel is located on Dog Mountain, 200 acres of rolling pasture and woods near the Huneck’s St. Johnsbury home. A Lab with wings tops the white steeple. Inside, dog carvings and stained glass windows surround you. In front of the chapel a sign reads “All Creeds All Breeds No Dogmas Allowed.” Stephen and his wife, Gwen, opened their first Stephen Huneck Gallery in Woodstock in 1993, where both people and dogs are always welcome. In addition to exhibiting in his own galleries, his work is exhibited in museums and prestigious private collections worldwide. Most recently, Stephen was featured on “Pets are Part of the Family” on PBS and on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Stephen has carved out a niche in the art world as a sculptor with a playful twist. “People love what I do. It’s fun, it’s genuine and it’s true.” And Stephen Huneck will be on hand to share his passions with dog lovers of all ages.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

GARY A. KOWALSKI

Reverend Gary Kowalski is the author of Earth Day: An Alphabet Book (2009) and Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers (2008). He writes a blog on how the Founders viewed issues affecting faith and public life at http://revolutionaryspirits.blogspot.com. His other books include The Souls of Animals (2007), Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Pet (2007), Science and the Search for God (2003) and The Bible According To Noah: Theology As If Animals Mattered (2001). One of Gary’s subjects will be the significance of pets and other animals in our lives. Gary is the Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington: the church that give Church Street its name.

Great Room, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

ALAN SILBERBERG

Alan Silberberg has created and written lots of weird and funny TV shows for Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, FOX, PBS and KidsWB. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in “Cartoon-Communication Education” and a Master’s degree in Education from Harvard. In 2008 Alan was awarded the James Thurber House Children’s Author in Residence. During that 4-week period he lived and worked in Thurber’s Columbus, Ohio home and completed his new book, Milo, which will be published by Simon & Schuster/Aladdin in the Fall of 2010. Pond Scum (2006), from which he’ll read, was Alan’s universally praised first novel. He lives in Montreal with his family and swears he has never pulled the wings off any flies.

Borders Books & Music

3:30-4:30 PM
MARY AZARIAN

Mary Azarian, to whom the 2009 Burlington Book Festival has been dedicated, was born in Washington, DC in 1940. She grew up on a market garden farm in northern Virginia. She attended Smith College, where she studied printmaking with Leonard Baskin and painting with Jules Cohen and Elliott Offner and graduated in 1962. She moved to Vermont in 1963 and taught in a one room school in Walden for four years. She began her printmaking studio, Farmhouse Press, in 1969 and has been producing woodcut prints since then. In 1974 she participated in the Vermont Images Project sponsored by the Vermont Council on the Arts and produced a set of alphabet woodcuts depicting and documenting the fast disappearing life on small hill farms. The Vermont Department of Education had the alphabet reproduced as poster sets which were then distributed to K-3 classes in all Vermont schools. This project eventually became her first picture book, A Farmer’s Alphabet, published in 1981 by David R Godine. Since then she has illustrated more than 50 books including Snowflake Bentley, which earned Azarian the 1999 Caldecott Award. Her most recent books are Tuttle’s Red Barn and Darwin, a picture biography of Charles Darwin, published this spring to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his birth. She is currently working on a book about dogs (a favorite subject) called The Shih Tzu’s Haiku. A Q&A and book signing will follow her presentation.

Black Box, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center

MONIQUE POLAK

Monique Polak is the author of nine novels for young adults. Her latest, What World Is Left, recently made the American Library Association's Editor's Choice list for 2008. Monique has two more novels coming out this fall. She is also a frequent contributor to the Montreal Gazette and teaches English and Humanities at Marianopolis College in Montreal.

Borders Books & Music

4:30 PM
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS OF NEW ENGLAND PRESENT WILLEM LANGE

Willem Lange is well known as a short-story writer and as a commentator and host on Vermont Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Television. His newest book, based on a story that has become a staple for yearly broadcast readings, is Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story. His reading and signing will cap two days of displays and events by Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE)—an organization that represents the many small book publishers located in our region.

Lake Lobby Extension, 3rd Floor
Main Street Landing's Performing Arts Center

The 3rd Annual
GRACE PALEY POETRY SERIES

*All readings will take place in Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center Film House on the third floor.*

11:00-11:30 AM
EMERGING POET READINGS
CHRISTOPHER LAWLESS
JILLIAN TOWNE

12-12:30 PM
DAVID CAVANAGH

David Cavanagh’s books of poems include Falling Body, released this year by Salmon Poetry of Ireland, and The Middleman, also published by Salmon. David’s poems have appeared in leading journals in Canada, Ireland, the U.S. and the U.K, and in several anthologies. He has also given dozens of popular readings in Vermont and Canada. He performs regularly with the poetry/jazz group, PoJazz. David has sometimes taught poetry and Canadian literature at a number of colleges including Johnson State College, Saint Michael’s College, the former Trinity College and Georgian College in Ontario. A native of Montreal with dual Canadian/American citizenship, he has lived in Burlington since 1982. He co-directs the External Degree Program at Johnson State College.

1-1:30 PM
CAROL POTTER

Carol Potter’s fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (2007) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in GLBT poetry. Her book of poems Short History of Pets won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award and the Balcones Award. Previous books include Upside Down in the Dark (1995) and Before We Were Born (1990)—both from Alice James Books. Potter’s poems have appeared in Field, The Iowa Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books and many other journals and anthologies. Other awards include a Pushcart Prize, The New Letters Award for Poetry in 1990, The Tom McAfee Discovery Award from The Missouri Review and three Massachusetts Council of the Arts Awards. She has had residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Millay Colony for the Arts, Cummington Community of the Arts and Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain. After five years in California, Potter returned to New England and has settled in the Northeast Kingdom where she works as Academic Coordinator for Community College of Vermont and teaches in the Antioch University MFA program in Poetry.

2-2:30 PM
DANIEL LUSK

Daniel Lusk’s recent books include Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems and Onion River: Six Vermont Poets. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, North American Review and other journals. He teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Vermont. As part of this year's Grace Paley Poetry Series he will present Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain, a cycle of original poems based on what lies beneath the surface of Lake Champlain. Natural and human history, legend and lore, shipwrecks, prehistoric relics and ancient species are among the subjects of Daniel’s new work, presented here with photos and underwater video footage accompaniment.

3-3:30 PM
BARON WORMSER

Baron Wormser is the author of seven books of poetry and a poetry chapbook. He is the co-author of two books about teaching poetry and the author of a memoir and a collection of short stories. He teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program and the Fairfield University MFA program and directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching in Franconia, New Hampshire. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He served as poet laureate of Maine from 2000 to 2005 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Maine at Augusta in 2005. Books he has authored include The White Words (1983), Good Trembling (1985), Atoms, Soul Music and Other Poems (1989), When (1997), Mulroney & Others (2000) and Subject Matter (2004). His chapbook, Carthage, about a personage who is a President of the United States was published in 2005. His memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid, published in 2006, has gone through four printings and was issued in paperback in April of 2008. An edition of new and selected poems entitled Scattered Chapters was published in 2008. Also published in 2008 was a volume of short stories entitled The Poetry Life: Ten Stories. One of those stories, "William Blake,” was selected as a winner of a 2006 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction from Southwest Review. Books Mr. Wormser has co-authored are as follows: Teaching the Art of Poetry: the Moves by Baron Wormser and David Cappella (2000) and A Surge of Language: Teaching Poetry Day by Day by Baron Wormser and David Cappella (2004).

4-4:30 PM
TONY HOAGLAND

Tony Hoagland is the author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets and What Narcissism Means to Me, as well as a collection of essays about poetry entitled Real Sofistakashun, all published by Graywolf Press. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review and Ploughshares. Mr. Hoagland currently teaches in the poetry program at the University of Houston. He is the winner of the 2005 O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize. Awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is the only national prize to recognize a poet's teaching as well as his art. He also received the 2005 Mark Twain Award, given by the Poetry Foundation in recognition of a poet’s contribution to humor in American poetry. He is the recipient of this year’s prestigious Jackson Poetry Prize as well. Tony Hoagland will read from his work, take questions and then sign copies of his books in the Lake Lobby.