Honored to be the headlining poet on May 2nd, 7pm for Poetry & Performance Online Meetup with Darlene Witte & the Green Mountain Writers! It's open to the public with an open mic, so please Save the Date and join us! Register at https://www.meetup.com/green-mountain-writers/events/292995210.

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Samantha Kolber’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Oddball Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, and other journals and anthologies. She received her MFA from Goddard College and completed post-grad studies at the Solstice MFA Program. Her chapbook Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books, 2020) won the Human Relations Indie Book Award in 2021. She lives in Montpelier, where she runs Rootstock Publishing and occasionally remembers to write poems, mostly about her daughter.

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.

I'll be speaking live with Barney Smith for his podcast StoryComic. If you have any questions, or poetry requests, email me, and I’ll address them in the interview. Hope you can join us!

The link to watch live is https://youtu.be/GfzBCAX2J3w

Thrilled to be part of this joint poetry reading for PoemCity Montpelier! Poets Samantha Kolber, Jesse LoVasco, Lisa Mase, and Eva Zimet read from their recently published poetry collections.

​Samantha Kolber's first chapbook, Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books) was published in September of 2020. Jesse Lovasco's Homebound Publications 2019 Poetry Prize Winning book, Native, was released in April of 2020. Lisa Mase's chapbook, I Won't Be/Long Here (Kelsay Books) is forthcoming in April 2021, and Eva Zimet's collection, The Lost Grip (Rootstock Publishing) was published in January of 2021.

Registration for the Zoom link is required. Please Click Here to register.

COVE welcomes acclaimed poets Rose Solari and Samantha Kolber to read from their published works and discuss their creative process. People of all ages are welcome to take part in this inspiring, soulful discussion.

Please pre-register for this event by clicking here.

Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and the novel, A Secret Woman. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including the University of Maryland, College Park; St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland; and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Creative Writing in Oxford, England. Her awards include the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, an EMMA award for excellence in journalism, and multiple grants. In 2010, she co-founded Alan Squire Publishing, a small press with big ideas.

Samantha Kolber is an award-winning poet who has published in many journals and anthologies. She received her MFA from Goddard College and completed post-grad work at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. She lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she coordinates events and marketing for Bear Pond Books and is the Poetry Series Editor for Rootstock Publishing. “Birth of a Daughter” (Kelsay Books, 9/1/20) is her first book.

I will read poems from my debut chapbook “Birth of a Daughter” and answer questions via Zoom. Co-sponsored by Bear Pond Books and The Kellogg-Hubbard Library. Free. Registration required. Please RSVP HERE.