AMP Night (Art, Music, Poetry) comes to the Upper Valley with an intergenerational, eclectic mix of performers sharing poetry, stories, music and art. Join us at JAM - Junction Arts & Media at 7 PM on Thursday, November 16th. Supported in part by Vermont Humanities.
Accessibility features include wheelchair access and handicapped street parking in front of the entrance.
Featuring
Sydney Lea
A former Pulitzer finalist, Sydney Lea served as founding editor of New England Review and was Vermont’s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015. In 2021, he was presented with his home state’s Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has published twenty-four books: a novel, five volumes of personal and three of critical essays, and sixteen poetry collections, most recently What Shines (Four Way Books, NYC, 2023). His sixth book of personal essays, Such Dancing as We Can, is due in early 2024, and his second novel, Now Look, in spring of that year.
Djeli
Djeli, formerly William Forchion, is a story weaver who helps transform overwhelm to overjoy. *Ki uses oral and written traditions, including poetry, to create an atmosphere of curiosity and dialogue, even around difficult topics. Ki helps others breathe life into their own stories as part of a healing process by speaking from the heart.
Djeli is a thought leader, life coach, public speaker, lifelong storyteller, and former Cirque du Soleil acrobat who has traveled the world collecting stories.
Diana Whitney
Diana Whitney writes across genres with a focus on feminism, motherhood, and sexuality. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves (2021), winner of the Claudia Lewis Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Glamour, and elsewhere, and she has received numerous grants for her writing, including from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council. Her first book, Wanting It, won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. She lives in Vermont with her family and works as an editor and writing coach.
Jolivette ‘the poet warrior’
Jolivette Anderson-Douoning aka Jolivette 'the poet warrior' is a Louisiana native who lives in Colchester, Vermont where she is Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Saint Michael's College. She is a performance poet who uses theater training when doing dramatic readings or reciting her original work and the poems of literary artists of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement as a method for teaching history and Black culture through literary arts. She has opened concerts, conducted workshops for youth and adults using poetry as a way to build stronger reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
Nana¡
Nana¡ is an independent multi-Genre artist who likes to describe herself as a squid who makes squid music. She recently finished summer camp at Berklee College of Music in Boston and her first album release is on the way!