Voicing Art Poetry Reading Series + Poems

an art-inspired community poetry reading event series

Voicing Art Poetry Reading Series + Poems

Voicing Art is an inclusive public community poetry reading event hosted by The Poartry Project of original art-inspired poetry and prose in Burlington, VT and simultaneously internationally livestreamed online. Voicing Art’s mission is “building loving worlds through loving words and art” with a welcoming, encouraging and family-friendly celebration of writing and art that provides the space to discover that poetry is accessible to all.

HOW IT WORKS

Here’s how Voicing Art works in non-pandemic times:

Visit the current exhibit at FLYNNDOG Gallery in the hallway of South End Station in South Burlington, Vermont, view it online via the virtual gallery of the exhibit provided by The Poartry Project, or choose another art exhibit in your local region or online during the writing window.
Write 1-4 one-page poems or prose pieces inspired by the art at FLYNNDOG or of your choice.
Submit your work(s) to Voicing Art. Come read it aloud at Nomad Coffee South End Station on a Saturday afternoon during the scheduled Voicing Art event in-person or from anywhere in the world via Zoom livestream.
Enjoy drinks and eats available for purchase from Nomad Coffee at the reading.
This reading is open and encouraging to all people of all ages and all levels of experience, including none. It is a supportive, safe and loving space to come play. Even though Voicing Art is an intentionally non-critique event, it consistently magnetizes incredibly thoughtful work and writers who share engaging, mind-blowing, vivid, clever, funny and heart-melting voices and care.

Even before covid, Voicing Art Poets were participating from Burlington, Milton, Charlotte, Bristol, Montpelier, Bennington, Lake Elmore, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Texas, Ireland and Australia. The reading takes place every other month, and the Voicing Art poems are posted online here after the reading and compiled into a program that is available hard copy and digitally.

Our April reading was fully virtual, and to be completely safe, our June reading will also be fully virtual. In the absence of the FLYNNDOG Gallery exhibition as muse for our poems, we are taking inspiration from specific themes provided by The Poartry Project or poet’s-choice pieces of art. We hope to be able to resume gathering in person at Nomad Coffee as soon as we all feel comfortable and confident to do so while continuing to enjoy the virtual presence of the poets and appreciative listeners who regularly come in via Zoom.

READ THE POEMS