Past Events

  • Thursday, March 23 at 7:00 pm

    Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature. 

    ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:  Bianca Amira Zanella is a cis queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on traditionally Abenaki land. She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. Their poem films, sculptural poems, and poem paintings have also been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, Stone Valley Arts, SPACE: a Pop Up Art Gallery, and Surdam Gallery.

    They received the...

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  • Book Launch Celebration

    Wednesday, March 22 at 7:00 pm

    Please join us as we welcome Christine Kenneally to Phoenix Books in Burlington for a discussion of her new book, Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice.  
     

    “Sometimes the world’s secrets have to wait for the right person to turn up to reveal them. Across ten years of hard and painful investigation, Christine Kenneally discovered, explored, and here reports on a great sink of human misery visited upon unprotected children by the very people who were honored for caring for them. It’s a chilling book, but a brave and important one—and a gripping read. It bears comparison to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag...

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  • It's Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism

    Monday, March 13 at 8:00 pm

    Join Senator Bernie Sanders and Random House on Monday, March 13 at 8 p.m. ET on Zoom to launch the senator’s new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. The book is a progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. Senator Sanders will...

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  • A Film Screening and Community Conversation

    Wednesday, March 08 at 5:30 pm

    Join us at Champlain College on March 8th to celebrate the International Day of Women. 

    Dr. Tanya Lee Stone, author of Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time will be joined by Absa Samba, Social Work,'20, The Gambia and Mariama Jallow, Social Work, '21, The Gambia. 
    We are looking forward to a screening of the award winning documentary Girl Rising, followed by a community conversation.
    Free & open to the public! 

    Phoenix Books will be on hand with copies of Dr. Stone's book Girl Rising available for purchase. 

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  • Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 pm

    Please join us as we welcome Felicia Kornbluh to Phoenix Books in Burlington for a discussion of her new book, A Woman's Life is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.  Dr. Kornbluh will be in conversation with Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale

    This January marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade. But rather than celebrating, Americans find themselves once again in the situation where the state you live in dictates...

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  • in-person at Phoenix Books Rutland

    Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 pm

    Join us for an afternoon of poetry hosted by Phoenix Books Rutland’s own Bianca Amira Zanella.  Come to read, come to listen, or come for both!  Those interested in reading can sign up at the door.

    ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:  Bianca Amira Zanella is a cis queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on traditionally Abenaki land. She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The...

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  • Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 pm

    Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature. 

    ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:  Bianca Amira Zanella is a cis queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on traditionally Abenaki land. She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. Their poem films, sculptural poems, and poem paintings have also been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, Stone Valley Arts, SPACE: a Pop Up Art Gallery, and Surdam...

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  • presented by Rutland Chapter UVM Extension Master Gardeners

    Monday, February 20 at 7:00 pm

    The Rutland Chapter UVM Extension Master Gardeners presents an evening with Martha Leb Molnar at the Godnick Adult Center in Rutland!   This free event is not just for gardeners!  Please join us as Martha discusses her memoir, Playing God in the Meadow.

    About the book:  After decades of fantasizing and saving, of working multiple jobs and embracing frugality in the midst of Manhattan, Martha Leb Molnar and her husband had found their parcel of land. Determined to turn an overgrown and unproductive Vermont apple orchard into a thriving and beautiful landscape, they decided to restore this patch of land to a pristine meadow and build a safe haven for their family and...

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  • Book Launch Celebration

    Sunday, January 29 at 2:00 pm

    Phoenix Books in Rutland is thrilled to present an afternoon with author Ren Hurst to celebrate the launch of her new book, The Wisdom of Wildness: Healing the Trauma of Domestication.

    About The Wisdom of Wildness:
    Revealing how our own domestication--and our resultant disconnection from nature--is the root trauma for much of the human experience, Ren Hurst explores 13 principles of unconditional love and experiential practices for addressing the trauma of domestication, healing relationships, and restoring deep connection to the inner guidance of your wild soul.

    Ren Hurst is an author, mentor, tracker, and guide helping people address the trauma of domestication....

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  • Book Launch Celebration!

    Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 pm

    Phoenix Books is honored to present an evening with Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author Kekla Magoon to celebrate the launch of her new novel, The Minus-One Club! Please join us at Phoenix Books in Essex for a discussion of a book that is sure to be important to so many readers, young adults and beyond.

    About The Minus-One Club:  Fifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. After losing his beloved older sister in a tragic car accident, nothing quite punctures through the feelings of loss. Everywhere Kermit goes, he is reminded of her.  But then Kermit finds a mysterious invitation in his locker, signed anonymously with...

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