Join Sundog Poetry and friends for an evening of poems and remembrance of Sundog co-founder Mary Jane Dickerson. Fittingly, this tribute event will be held at the Jericho Community Center, a venue at the heart of Mary Jane’s beloved Jericho community and next door to her long-time residence.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Special guests read select works of Mary Jane’s poetry

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Open invitation for the public to share poetry written by or inspired by Mary Jane

Mary Jane Dickerson

Mary Jane Phillips Dickerson, born and raised in North Carolina, spent most of her adult life in Vermont. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she began her teaching career at Campbell University in North Carolina (then Campbell College). After moving to Vermont, Dickerson taught literature and writing in the English Department at the University of Vermont where she remained for more than thirty years, retiring as an Associate Professor of English. Dickerson also participated as writer and faculty member at the New England Young Writers’ Conference at Breadloaf, Vermont. Her scholarly work took her to Japan where she gave a series of lectures at two universities in Nagoya and to South Africa where she taught at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa for a semester.

Dickerson ran an annual workshop on reading and writing poetry, served on several community boards in Jericho and University of Vermont boards, and was active in civic work, contributing her time to the Democratic Party and to the town of Jericho as Justice of the Peace on the board of Civil Authority. Her book of poems, Tapping the Center of Things, was published by Tamarac Press in 2013, and her collection of poems, Water Journeys in Art and Poetry, was published in the fall of 2014.