Poetry & Performance with Darlene Witte

THIS SESSION:
Featuring Poet Linda Whalen Quinlan...
with a 49 year publishing history, her work has appeared in such journals as Sinister Wisdom, A Fine Madness, The New Orleans Review and Conditions: The International Edition. Her book of poems, Chelsea Creek, takes place in a working class city outside of Boston in the 1950’s, evokes the landscape of pre-Katrina New Orleans, and addresses life in small town Vermont. Topics involving motherhood, homophobia, religion, and class, trace her artistic development as she engages actively and observantly with many of the pressing issues of our time.

Linda currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont where she cohosts a cable access news and interview show called All Things LGBTQ and is one of the founders of Rainbow Umbrella of Vermont.

The Poetry & Performance workshop, led by Darlene L. Witte, works to bridge the gap between poetic words on a page and poetry read aloud. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month, we focus on the work of a feature poet presented live in a Zoom session. The group is invited to respond to the poetry and discuss the work. Sessions then progress to an Open Mic where anyone can share a poem of their own or one they have just taken a liking to.

Darlene Witte

Moving to Vermont in 1993 to become a professor of Education at Northern Vermont University brought her to a landscape far more physically, emotionally, and socially embracing than she knew. Vermont has become her new spiritual home. She blends this new, gentle, land-and-people-scape into her life-long internal vision, and she hopes you enjoy her poetry and workshop.