Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 pm, ET

EMERGING VERMONT VOICES READING

Poets Shanta Lee Gander, Desmond Peeples, and Jad Yassine read from their work in this program co-sponsored by the Sundog Poetry Center and the Poetry Society of Vermont. Shanta Lee Gander is the winner of Diode Editions full-length book contest for her debut poetry compilation, GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA, Desmond Peeples is the founding editor of Mount Island, a literary magazine for rural LGBTQ+ and POC voices, and Jad Yassine’s writing has appeared in Francis House, Bellevue Literary Review, and Portrait of New England.

This reading will be held over Zoom and is free and open to the public. To register in advance, visit www.kellogghubbard.org/poemcity

Shanta Lee Gander is the 2020 recipient of the Arthur Williams Award for Meritorious Service to the Arts. Shanta Lee gives lectures on the life of Lucy Terry Prince as a member of the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers and is the 2020 gubernatorial appointee to their board of directors. Shanta Lee also offers virtual creativepreneurship workshops for writers and other artists connecting them to strategies around project planning, and other topics, as a part of her business, Obsidian Arts, L3C. Visit Shantaleegander.com for more information.

Desmond Peeples' writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Isele, Past-Ten, Goreyesque, and elsewhere, and they write regularly for the Vermont Arts Council. They hold degrees from Goddard College and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Desmond was born in Brattleboro and now lives in the Northeast Kingdom. Find out more at desmondpeeples.com.

Jad Yassine wishes he had a better singing voice. Born and raised in Lebanon, he moved to Vermont in 2016 to pursue Creative Writing studies at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, and moved to White River Junction in 2018. Apart from writing, he is your friendly neighborhood medical courier at Green Mountain Messenger.