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"Poetry, the spoken word, & the literary arts." Celebrating all things word-inspired weekly on Central VT Community Radio, WGDR.org, Sundays @ 5 p.m.
@onthemedia.bsky.social VT historian Garret Graf's authoritarianism explainer w/ Brooke was amazing context. See more at www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM
@onthemedia.bsky.social VT historian Garret Graf's authoritarianism explainer w/ Brooke was amazing context. See more at www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
Utterly prophetic, was Rev. King and JFK as well...
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Utterly prophetic, was Rev. King and JFK as well...
Dually MFAed in poetry and fiction from Iowa Writers Wkshop, then M.DIVed by Starr King Seminary, Jennifer Whitten may versify, narrate, or preach on BonMot Sunday!?! Lend yr ears at 5pm on WGDR.org
January 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Dually MFAed in poetry and fiction from Iowa Writers Wkshop, then M.DIVed by Starr King Seminary, Jennifer Whitten may versify, narrate, or preach on BonMot Sunday!?! Lend yr ears at 5pm on WGDR.org
Poet, editor, Poetry Society of Vt exec Buffy Aakaash shares poems from his 2025 book, Breaking, 2022's Untangling the Knots, and new work in progress on BonMot at 5pm Sunday on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears!
December 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Poet, editor, Poetry Society of Vt exec Buffy Aakaash shares poems from his 2025 book, Breaking, 2022's Untangling the Knots, and new work in progress on BonMot at 5pm Sunday on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears!
38 VT authors' visions of VT were curated by Bill Mares in "Vermont 2050" & posthumously published by Bill's sweetie & a "pod" of beloveds. It debuted at St.J Atheneum w/ 6 authors sharing their visions. Lend an ear at 5 PM on Bon Mot WGDR.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
38 VT authors' visions of VT were curated by Bill Mares in "Vermont 2050" & posthumously published by Bill's sweetie & a "pod" of beloveds. It debuted at St.J Atheneum w/ 6 authors sharing their visions. Lend an ear at 5 PM on Bon Mot WGDR.org
Virginian become Vermonter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Goddard College Creative Writing program cofounder has put up her pen for good. On Bon Mot at 5pm today we'll hear a lovely reading from her 2nd & 3rd books from 1987 on WGDR.org. Lend an appreciative elegiac ear.
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Virginian become Vermonter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Goddard College Creative Writing program cofounder has put up her pen for good. On Bon Mot at 5pm today we'll hear a lovely reading from her 2nd & 3rd books from 1987 on WGDR.org. Lend an appreciative elegiac ear.
Like you, I remember W, incredulously, saying stuff like "Don't they understand we create our own reality?" and now I understand the puppet masters and their strings upon him.
I remember reading this quote in the early 2000s and it seared itself into the back of my skull.
Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Like you, I remember W, incredulously, saying stuff like "Don't they understand we create our own reality?" and now I understand the puppet masters and their strings upon him.
I saw this Rick Winston presentation in Adam-ant. Really amazing. A great piece of film historiography.
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I saw this Rick Winston presentation in Adam-ant. Really amazing. A great piece of film historiography.
Sunday @5 pm on Bon Mot, Ivy T. Schweitzer, Dartmouth creative writing emerita, and gender studies professor, shares a new book of poems, Dividing Rivers, streaming world-wide on WGDR.org Lend an ear!
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sunday @5 pm on Bon Mot, Ivy T. Schweitzer, Dartmouth creative writing emerita, and gender studies professor, shares a new book of poems, Dividing Rivers, streaming world-wide on WGDR.org Lend an ear!
Four lovely homages honoring heart, art, and precision. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt
Catherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt.
yalereview.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Four lovely homages honoring heart, art, and precision. yalereview.org/article/trib...
Arthur Sze is our new US poet laureate. Influenced equally by Chinese landscape painting, Walt Whitman, imagists, and collagists... hear poems & commentary at 5 pm on WGDR.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Arthur Sze is our new US poet laureate. Influenced equally by Chinese landscape painting, Walt Whitman, imagists, and collagists... hear poems & commentary at 5 pm on WGDR.org
On Bon Mot at 5 pm, speeches from VT representatives at No Kings Day, Oct. 18, field recorded live at the Statehouse in Montpelier.
Lend yr ears at wgdr.org
Lend yr ears at wgdr.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On Bon Mot at 5 pm, speeches from VT representatives at No Kings Day, Oct. 18, field recorded live at the Statehouse in Montpelier.
Lend yr ears at wgdr.org
Lend yr ears at wgdr.org
NH poet laureate Jennifer Militello, an open reading, and an open musical Interlude... frostplace.org/sundays-in-t...
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
NH poet laureate Jennifer Militello, an open reading, and an open musical Interlude... frostplace.org/sundays-in-t...
Poets Doug Currier and Kiev Ratten recorded live at TheFront in Montpelier on September 11, today on BonMot on wgdr.org 5 PM. Lend an ear here!
October 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Poets Doug Currier and Kiev Ratten recorded live at TheFront in Montpelier on September 11, today on BonMot on wgdr.org 5 PM. Lend an ear here!
Not what's up... what's down... ;)
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Not what's up... what's down... ;)
Old West Church Poetry tomorrow
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Old West Church Poetry tomorrow
Plainfield Farmers Mkt goes out w/ a blaze o'glory (last outdoor mkt of the season).
September 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Plainfield Farmers Mkt goes out w/ a blaze o'glory (last outdoor mkt of the season).
Skool hike at Mt Elmore... VT
September 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Skool hike at Mt Elmore... VT
Droughty Vermont Tailgate Call to Action!
September 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Droughty Vermont Tailgate Call to Action!
@modaviau.bsky.social Big congrats on pubday. Thinking of you in Vt while making collages from old NatGeos with 6th graders. @dynamoe.bsky.social will like dig this OR. font!
September 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
@modaviau.bsky.social Big congrats on pubday. Thinking of you in Vt while making collages from old NatGeos with 6th graders. @dynamoe.bsky.social will like dig this OR. font!
If the United States saw what the US is doing in the United States, the US would invade the United States to liberate the US from the tyranny of the United States
September 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If the United States saw what the US is doing in the United States, the US would invade the United States to liberate the US from the tyranny of the United States
Shakespeare at Goddard 3.0
August 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Shakespeare at Goddard 3.0
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Love talking about Suspect and the writing process in general on this podcast! If you listen long enough you'll hear a word I say get bleeped out which I was no joke delighted by.
August 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Love talking about Suspect and the writing process in general on this podcast! If you listen long enough you'll hear a word I say get bleeped out which I was no joke delighted by.