Past Events
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Presented with the Vermont Folklife Center
Thursday, February 03 at 7:00 pm
Join us for a discussion with the editors and contributors to Turner Family Stories: From Enslavement in Virginia to Freedom in Vermont.
Featuring the work of six New England cartoonists and drawing on the rich personal and family stories of the remarkable Daisy Turner (1883-1988) of Grafton, Vermont, Turner Family Stories presents two of Daisy's accounts of the life of her father, Alec Turner, by Marek Bennett and Joel...
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Virtual Book Launch Celebration
Wednesday, February 02 at 7:00 pm
Please join us for an evening with Vermont author J. Peter Cobb to celebrate the release of his new novel, To Alice.
Alice Hammond is a troubled soul. She dropped out of medical school when one of her professors made it too stressful for her to stay. Now she works as a home health and hospice aide in Providence, Vermont. She is a wonderful aide, the quality of her work is high, and her patients love her. But Alice tends to become too involved with them. She has made their lives her life—a problem both for them and herself.
The boundaries between providing compassionate care and getting too involved are already blurred, when one of her patients leaves her all his property and $125,...
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presented in partnership with the Vermont Italian Cultural Association
Saturday, January 29 at 11:00 am
Please join Phoenix Books and the Vermont Italian Cultural Association (VICA) for a special Saturday story time event with award-winning illustrator and author, Dan Yaccarino. Dan will be sharing two of his recent picture books with us, All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel and The Longest Storm. VICA is especially excited to highlight Dan's strong connection to his Italian-American background found in All the Way to America which introduces a version of the immigration story not unlike what many have grown up hearing around the dinner table.
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presented with Macmillan Publishers
Thursday, January 27 at 7:00 pm
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Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with Jennifer Hillier for Little Secrets, recently out in paperback. We've partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to readers across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with fellow author S.A. Cosby and participate in the live Q&A.
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Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her...
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Wednesday, January 26 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.
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Dayna Lorentz in conversation with Rachel Jolly and Kelly Ahrens
Thursday, January 20 at 7:00 pm
Please join us as we celebrate the release of Dayna Lorentz's new middle grade novel, Wayward Creatures with a discussion of restorative justice in real life and fiction. Dayna will be joined in conversation by Rachel Jolly and Kelly Ahrens of the Burlington Community Justice Center. The event will be moderated by Margot Harrison.
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Wayward Creatures is a heartfelt animal friendship story, a troubled young boy befriends a wayward coyote after a forest fire changes both of their lives.
Twelve-year-old Gabe doesn’t know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him now that they’re... -
Presented with Macmillan Publishers
Thursday, January 13 at 7:00 pm
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Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with award-winning author Elle Cosimano for the paperback release of Finlay Donovan is Killing It. We've partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to readers across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with fellow author Kellye Garrett and participate in the live Q&A. Register through the link below.
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Tuesday, January 11 at 7:00 pm
Join us for an evening of poetry with Kai Coggin as we celebrate the release of her latest collection of poetry, Mining for Stardust.
Mining for Stardust is a fiery and tender witness, a poetic chronology of one of the greatest collective paradigm shifts of our lifetime. Coggin's first poem in the collection was written on the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown. Each subsequent poem moves the reader through the pandemic, the summer of protests, the U.S. presidential election, and toward what seems like the other side of this darkest time in our memory. She...
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Saturday, January 08 at 11:00 am
Calling all kids! Grab some paper and something to draw with and join us for a fun-filled story time with cartoonists Dan and Jason!
Blue, Barry, and Pancakes are best friends! They love funky music, penguins that wear hats, and going on BIG adventures!
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One day, Barry convinces Blue and Pancakes to enter an epic sundae-making contest. Blue and Pancakes just want to have fun, but Barry is in it to WIN IT. He knows exactly how he’s going to get the trophy, but it’s going to be dangerous. It’ll take sacrifice. He might even lose his pals along the way…
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Wednesday, December 15 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 Vermont-based performance poet, paper artist, and events coordinator, as well as the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland. Zanella’s poems have most recently appeared in The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded “Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry,” co-producing this series alongside Michael Kingsbury around Rutland County. In 2020, Bianca founded and is the owner of The...
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