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Brooklyn poet Joe Elliot visits us for a reading from his new collection An Everything, and he's invited two Vermont poets to join him, Duncan Nichols & Kate Magill."Like a post-modern Marcus Aurelius, Elliot treats readers to his bare-hearted consciousness in these meditations that vacillate wildly between brushing one’s teeth and the dense silence that meets a lonely Universe…between particular identity and nothingness or a world “busy with birds /and filled with their song”… between the revolution of youth and the capitulation of old age. Indeed, throughout this volume, you can’t help but suffer the author grappling with mortality, and, as “when a poet reaches the end,” “you feel you finally/understand them, and maybe/ even yourself. . .”
—Tamra Plotnick, author of In the Zero of Sky“Joe Elliot helped run a weekly reading series at the Zinc Bar in New York City for many years. He now co-hosts a monthly series, Overhear, at the Lofty Pigeon Bookstore in Brooklyn. He is the author of If It Rained Here, a collaboration with Julie Harrison (Granary Books, 2004), Opposable Thumb (subpress, 2006), Homework (Lunar Chandelier, 2010), Idea for a B Movie (Free Scholars Press, 2016), and An Everything (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024). He teaches English and lives in Brooklyn.Kate Magill is a writer, actor, educator, and long-distance backpacker who lives off-grid in the woods of New Hampshire. She has appeared in numerous stage and film productions throughout the Upper Valley and beyond. Her first book of poetry, Roadworthy Creature, Roadworthy Craft was published by Burlington's Fomite Press.Duncan Nichols, is a social worker, a poet, and a playwright. He lives with his partner, Lynne, in Thetford, Vermont. His poetry includes two chapbooks, Shaker Cradle (A Musty Bone Press, 1985) and Four White Mercedes (Lowestsida Press, 1991). Poems from the chap books have appeared in various journals such as Mr. Cogito, Galley Sail Review, and Win Magazine. Duncan's six plays have been staged in Vermont's Upper Valley. These are Pam: Map of a Country (Parish Players, 2002), Club Wave (Parish Players, 2004), Quimby Mountain Beavers (staged reading Upper Valley Arts, 2005), Silvia and Mary at Sea (Parish Players, 2017), Tragedy 459 (staged reading Parish Players, 2020), and Myth Makers (Coolidge Hotel Ballroom, 2022). The work-in-progress is Music of the Little People.
