David Crews and Vermont Youth Poet Laureate Emma Paris

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please join us for a reading and talk with local poet David Crews from his book-length poem Hoosic River with a brief presentation on the Hoosic River Watershed from HOORWA, followed by an open mic with Bennington College students hosted by the Vermont State Youth Poet Laureate Emma Paris '28, a Bennington College student from Putney, VT.

The Hoosic River poem cycle is dedicated to the Hoosic River Watershed Association, a nonprofit citizen group that looks after the river. The poems were written while visiting various public-protected lands inside the river’s watershed, places that reside in and around ancestral lands and the home today of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. The river’s name belongs to the Algonquin language family and Algonquin peoples came to this land as home over twelve thousand years ago as the last glaciers retreated from the region when the river, too, came into being.