I was at WallaSauce in the Beaver Mill, in a room full of bright cloth, and then at the Bennington Museum in a show inspired by snow …
Read articlePhillip B. Williams reforms worlds in ‘Mutiny’
Nationally awardwinning poet Phillip B. Williams has published his newest book, moving through a space where myth and story and lived experience charge the air — a place of persistence, anger and beauty.
Read articleGenevieve Taggard — a friend speaks to Robert Frost (Aug. 11 newsletter)
I would never have known Genevieve Taggard wrote a hundred years ago. She writes so openly in 1920, as a poet and Robert Frost’s friend …
Read articleNorth Bennington sculpture livens a country town
A man is standing on the platform, looking at his watch — waiting for a train that hasn’t come in 50 years. By the historic station around the corner from the feed store, he’s a sculpture in the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show.
Read articleSculpture waits on the wildflower walk at Bennington Museum
A quiet man in a hoodie closes his eyes as though he’s praying, and in the meadow above him a man with rainbowed wings turns in the sun. At Bennington Museum the art is moving, and it’s coming out.
Read articleChasing wildflowers on the Dome and Agawon Trail (April 14 newsletter)
It’s the first time I’ve ever taken my shoes off in the woods to get a better grip. It’s the first time in New England I’ve ever wound up on a trail so steep I can imagine sliding straight off the mountain. …
Read articleWeaver and fiber artist grows and teaches her art
Sculptor, weaver and fiber artist Andrea Myklebust has come a long way from urban centers and metro lines to a farmyard where she cares for the goats and sheep who grow the wool she will weave by hand.
Read articleShops and co-ops link knitters and locally grown wool
It’s a quiet movement, sliding the yarn over the needle, pulling the loop through and repeating. The the feel of wool can be warm and earthy in your hands.
Read articleRussell Banks excavates a bare and rugged New England
Russell Banks came to talk about how to put a book together, how to make a character human, how to make us admit that any character, no matter how broken, is like us — how to drop the defenses and put aside the scrims.
Read articleJoy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier share loss and strength in poetry
Surrounded by the crumbling world, women begin to sing. The world as they’ve known it has ended, and yet there is movement, and growth, and the promise of new life.
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