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Vermont Edition

Vermont's poet laureate mailed a thousand poems to strangers statewide. Did you get one?

By Mikaela Lefrak,
Andrea Laurion
Published April 4, 2023 at 1:26 PM EDT
A photograph of Mary Ruefle, Vermont poet laureate.
Matt Valentine
Bennington resident Mary Ruefle has been the poet laureate of Vermont since 2019.

Live call-in discussion: In honor of National Poetry Month, we check in with Mary Ruefle, Vermont's poet laureate. Ruefle is the author of many books of poetry, including her latest, Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. She is also an erasure artist and a former Bennington College professor.

Ruefle speaks with host Mikaela Lefrak about the role of patience in writing, her favorite local writers, and a recent project: Anonymously mailing poetry to strangers all across the state. She will be speaking about "The Vermont Project" at the on Saturday, April 8, at 2 pm.

Our guest:

  • Mary Ruefle, Vermont poet laureate, of Bennington.

Broadcast live on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak
Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
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Andrea Laurion
Andrea Laurion joined 开云体育 as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children鈥檚 birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.
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