PUTNEY — The Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., hosts two well known Vermont poets on Tuesday, June 13, at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Terry Hauptman will read from her poems that incorporate many cultures both past and present, and Toni Ortner will read from her most recent book, Shadows and Silhouettes (Kelsay Books, 2022), which is a collection of her early work.
Ortner lives in Putney and has had 29 books published by small presses. The 30th book, Focused Light from a Distant Star, will appear in December 2023 and honors the work of women artists during the last two centuries.
She wrote the Daybook series, published by Ardent Writer Press and Deerbrook Editions, based on Virginia Woolf's ideas of what a diary should contain to present the light of our lives. Blue Lyrics was published in 2021 by Adelaide Books.
Her books are sold from small presses, on Amazon, and on her website. Ortner hosted the Putney Writers Salon on Zoom last winter, featuring writers from Vermont and other states. Her books, reviews, and writing can be seen at toniortner.com.
Hauptman holds a master's degree in poetry from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, where she studied with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo. She earned a doctorate in interdisciplinary arts from Ohio University.
She reads her poetry and exhibits her Songline Scrolls nationally. She has taught world art, poetry, and ethnopoetics at several universities and in workshops, most recently at the former Green Mountain College.
Hauptman's newest work, Fallen Angels (North Star Press, 2022), is her seventh volume of poetry, adding to her six full-length poetry collections.