Celebrate Poetry & Earth Month all April long by rediscovering your sense of place among the pop-up poetry path created by The Paper Poet in collaboration with Phoenix Books Rutland and the Downtown Rutland Partnership. Poets have 76 poems from 34 poets on display at Downtown Rutland businesses. Poems are on display through the first week of May. Celebrate by following the Poetry Downtown Rutland poems posted in the window fronts.

Poetry Passport: Enjoy a Poetry Scavenger Hunt! Get your passport stamped at Phoenix Books Rutland. Download a Poetry Passport here >>

Save the Date: Poetry Walking Tour with a Reading + Reception on Thursday, April 25th! The walk will begin at 5:30, and we will meet at Phoenix Books (come early to browse!). Departing from Phoenix the tour will conclude at Downtown Rutland Partnership with a Reading + Reception with light food and refreshments. Doors open at 6:30 at DRP with reading to begin at 7 pm. Event closes at 8 pm.

POETRY LIST + DOWNTOWN LOCATIONS

Mountain Music (5 Center St)
- daithí, “At the Atm,” “Sans,” & “the door”
- Kelly Kelsey, “Patterns”
Phoenix Books (2 Center St)
- Joan Aleshire, “Receiver”
- Rena Fleming, “Winter Harvest”
- Kamaal Lettsome, “Inherited Sins”
- Vee Nelly, “Quiet Deception” & “Whispering Delusions”
- Penelope Weiss, “And What Have I Done?”
Rutland Area Food Co-op (77 Wales St)
- Nick Grandchamp, “New World” & “Where the Cold Came In”
- Bianca Amira Zanella, “Skin in the Game”
Rutland Free Library (10 Court St)
- James Morehead, “i’m on the red-eye to meet cody” & “We missed the beginnings of movies”
- Ivo Skoric, “Loving Parents”
Six 7 Clout (67 Center St)
- Carmen Gil, “The American Dream”
- Thomas Hartigan, “Mud Season”
- Vee Nelly, “Enchanted Photo”
Speakeasy Cafe (31 Center St)
- Alexander Chojolán, “Sacred Mayan Calendar”
- Kris Harmelink, “New Years”
- Kamaal Lettsome, “How to Make a Love Poem”
The Mad Rose (42 Center St)
- Nichael Cramer, “Sonnet 2 (Diary Sonnet)”
Timco Jewelers and Goldsmiths (59 Center St)
- Carmen Gil, “Her”
- Nichael Cramer, “Duet” & “Hearing the Phoebe”
Taso On Center / Giuseppe's Italian Market (22 / 26 Center St)
- Martha Anderson Sanborn, “Rainy Morning in Ogunquit”
- Rena Fleming, “Like a cake”
Triumph Barre, Yoga and Pilates (96 Merchants Row)
- Christine Hickey, “Trails”
- Bianca Amira Zanella, “Buttons”
True Yoga (22 Wales St)
- Willeena Booker, “Trenches”
- Kelly Kelsey, “Words”
- Khy Munro, “Thoughts... A Poem”
- Penelope Weiss, “In the Fiery Furnace”
Wild Kind Toys (31 Center St)
- Judith K. Crocker, “Lauds”
Wonderfeet Kid's Museum (66 Merchants Row)
- Micki Blanchette, “Luna”
- Kamrin Munro, “The Sky... A Poem”
- Martha Anderson Sanborn, “Evening Swim”
- Ivo Skoric, “Apple”

Avanti Hair Salon (52 Center St)
- Linette Rabsatt, “Bob Marley Vibrations” & “Realizing Love”
- Charles Rossiter, “Live the Life You Love”
Blush (60 Center St)
- April Glasgow, “I want my husband to wander as free as the wind that shakes the dunes”
- Kelly Kelsey, “She Sings in the Spring”
The Bookmobile (17 Center St)
- Conrad Tuerk, “A Perilous Crossing” & “Once A Ski Bum”
Camille's Experienced Clothing (44 Merchants Row)
- Rena Fleming, “Attentive Listening?”
- Hiram Larew, “Picture Perfect” & “Wrong Things”
- Nancy Weis, “A Dog in March”
Curiosity Shop (18 Merchants Row)
- Christine Hickey, “Estate Sale”
- Kamaal Lettsome, “Depth”
Downtown Rutland Partnership (28 Center St)
- Atlas, “I dream of a world where...”
- Micki Blanchette, “Great Grandson”
- Hiram Larew, “After All”
- Nancy Weis, “How It Begins”
Four T's Thrift Store (30 Merchants Row)
- Lee Allane, “Mightier than the sword”
- Willeena Booker, “Asian Hate”
- Kris Harmelink, “The poem I wrote when I couldn’t write one”
- Penelope Weiss, “Upstream”
Fruition Fineries (56 Merchants Row)
- Lee Allane, “The Secret Life of a Kiss”
- Thomas Hartigan, “Snowflake Bentley”
GreenSpell Plant Shop (35 Center St)
- Judith K. Crocker, “Beyond Lascaux”
HandCarved by Ernie (37 Center St)
- Judith K. Crocker, “Thesaurus”
- Ashley Anne Strobridge, “The Heart of a Lion”
Last Cup Café (87 State St)
- Christine Hickey, “Rust in Peace”
Loose Loona (11 Center St)
- Thomas Hartigan, “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
- Linette Rabsatt, “A Broken Pen”
- Jeremy Void, “Everyone”
Make It Sew (69 Center St)
- Carmen Gil, “Water Holds Memories”
- Ashley Anne Strobridge, “Ode to a Lioness”
Masala Corner (98 Merchants Row)
- Lee Allane, “Let Her Hair Hang Low”
- Willeena Booker, “Courage”
- David Mook, “Shards of Metromania”
McNeil & Reedy (81 Merchants Row)
- Micki Blanchette, “Time Change”
- Kris Harmelink, “NYC”