How fortunate indeed for Vermont that
Frost chose to live in the Green Mountain
State rather than the Granite State,
making his home in Shaftsbury and
Ripton, although several generations of
poets throughout northern New England
have stood on his shoulders to gaze anew
at the landscape he immortalized. But like
Frost, poets who call Vermont their home,
such as those listed above, have struck out
on their own and “made new” in brave, big
ways that belie the size of their state.
Sections of this essay were first published in
Vermont Poets and Their Craft (Sundog
Poetry/Green Writers Press, 2019)
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