Megan Buchanan
Jennifer Grant
Alan Haehnel
Didi Jackson
Taylor Katz
Kristin Maffeii
Michael Metivier
Hatsy McGraw
April Ossman
and a reading of Renée Good’s award winning poem
Megan Buchanan
Megan Buchanan writes poems and essays, produces community arts events, and creates collaborative performance projects (usually about radioactivity). Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies. She’s currently the director of the SMS Learning Center at Stratton Mountain School, privileged to support the development of neurodiverse kinesthetic wizards. Her winter obsessions include cold plunging in the Putney culvert, hand-stitching quilts to give to friends, and learning and practicing the Irish language with her son, Avery. She’s currently at work on her second full-length poetry collection. www.meganbuchanan.net
Jennifer Grant
Jennifer Grant has been a Hartland resident for fourteen years. While previously living inEnfield, NH, Jennifer’s poetry was featured on Memorial Day, at the dedication of the Veterans’Memorial Park, and in the Town Report. She has been an invited poet at the Upper Valley Relay for Life, at the one-year remembrance of September 11th in Lebanon, NH, and at the Sharon Academy for Martin Luther King Day. Selected poems have been displayed on Pleasant Street in Claremont, NH and at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Jennifer has shared poems to open professional gatherings of the Four Winds Nature Institute and the White River Junction VA. Jennifer has also written poems for more personal settings, including retirement gatherings and celebrations of life. She considers herself an episodic poet.
After a career as a biomedical researcher, small businesswoman, and nonprofit leader, Jenniferis savoring Vermont life with her husband Rob Anderegg. They are active members of thecommunity and enjoy time spent with their three furbabies and, when possible, their four adult human children. Jennifer enjoys cooking, nature, and singing.
Jennifer will read these poems:
The Source
First Appearances
The Descendant
Alan Haehnel
Alan Haehnel is a retired English and Drama teacher from White River Junction,Vermont. His interest in poetry centers on spoken word presentation. While he has no published works of poetry specifically, his sideline as a playwright has produced over a hundred published works, many of them relying on poetry to enhance the dramatic or comedic message. Alan’s greatest aim with poetry is to make readings entertaining.
Didi Jackson
Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and World Literature Today among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center and Virgina Center for Creative Arts. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Taylor Mardis Katz
Taylor Mardis Katz is a poet, herb farmer, small-town grocer, and ordained minister living in Chelsea, Vermont, where she co-manages a shop, apothecary, farm, and homestead with her partner, Misha. She also co-creates various poetry & community events across Vermont, and parents one small and exciting young person named Linden.
Taylor’s poems have been published in a variety of literary journals, such as Barnstorm and the Connecticut Review, and featured on radio stations, podcasts, and in the Vermont Statehouse. To read more of her poems & stay updated on what she’s reading, sign up for her newsletter, Party Poet on the Hillside, which can be found on Substack.
Kristin Maffeii
Placed in liminal spaces with a historical bend, Kristin Maffei’s poetry has been featured in Works & Days, Mount Hope Journal, American Athenaeum, qarrtsiluni, Underwater New York, and on some buses in Oxfordshire. Kristin studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry and co-curator of the NYU Emerging Writers Series at KGB Bar. She lives in Norwich, VT with herhusband and son.
Michael Metivier
Michael Metivier is a poet, editor, and musician from Windsor, Vermont. His work ha sappeared in journals including Poetry, Orion, Kenyon Review, and African American Review, and some of it can be viewed at his website: michaelmetivier.com. He is currently alexicographer at Merriam-Webster.
Hatsy McGraw
Hatsy McGraw has published poems in several journals including Bloodroot, Hanging Loose, The Salon, and Across Borders. Her poems also appeared in the anthology, Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont. Her poem, Neighbors in the North End, won the Robert Penn Warren Prize for free verse in 2004 and she was a finalist for the Sundog Poetry Book Award in 2023. Hatsy is a member of a group of local Vermont poets, sometimes referred to as “The Pie Poets,” who have published two collections of poems, Perhaps It Was the Pie and The Party Cabinet. A graduate of Vermont College’s Writing for Children/ YA program, she lives in Hartland, Vermont with her husband, painter Tom McGraw, and their two cats, Leon and Dali.
April Ossman
April Ossmann is the author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025) and Event Boundaries and Anxious Music, recipient of a VAC Creation Grant, and former director of Alice James Books, and anindependent editor at: www.aprilossmann.com