Vermont poets Chard deNiord and Rachel Hadas will read from their recent publications in the sumptuous setting of the Athenaeum Gallery. 

Poet laureate of Vermont (2015-2019) Chard deNiord is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Westminster West (2025) and One As Other (2024). He is also the author of a book of essays on contemporary poetry (2025), and two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry and I Would Lie To You If I Could.  deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College, and co-founded The New England College MFA Program and The Ruth Stone Foundation. He is   Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. He serves as board member of the Sundog Poetry Center in Vermont, is the essay editor at Plume Poetry Journal, and lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.

Poet, essayist, and translator Rachel Hadas‘s new collection, Pastorals, was published this spring (2025), and a prosimetrum (alternating poetry and prose) entitled My Cloak is Poetry is due out in 2025. Hadas is a translator of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus, an epic from late antiquity published in 2022 as Tales of Dionysus; she has also translated three plays by Euripides. Now retired from Rutgers University where she taught for many years, she sometimes teaches remotely at 92y in New York and also teaches private students. Hadas’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant in poetry, and an award in literature from the Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters.  She is a recipient of the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library and has been a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has been a resident of the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Rachel Hadas lives in Danville, Vermont, with her husband, visual artist and filmmaker Shalom Gorewitz, with whom she collaborates on poetry and video.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the event, and the authors will sell and autograph their books. The event is free, ADA accessible and open to the public.