Join us to celebrate the launch of the new PoemCity Anthology 2025 with readings from headlining poets Bianca Stone, Chard deNiord, and Toussaint St. Negritude on his bass clarinet; followed by an open mic for poets with poems in the anthology. Come and sign up at the door (first come, first serve) to read your poem from this year’s anthology! Free and open to the public. Refreshments served and autographed books for sale.

Bianca Stone is the Vermont Poet Laureate and author of seven books of poetry, most recently What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry. Chard deNiord is a former Vermont Poet Laureate (2015-19) and the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Westminster West (Tupelo Press, 2025), and One As Other (Green Writers Press, 2024). Toussaint St. Negritude is the former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, and is the author of the poetry debut Mountain Spells (Rootstock, 2024).