2016 Poem Locations

Poems to be displayed throughout April—National Poetry Month.

River Path
accessed at Valley Bowl Parking lot, 12 Prince Street

  • Laura Foley – Spring Treachery
  • Corinne Davis – The Storm
  • Lindy Sayward – Aliveness
  • Elizabeth Mariani – Influence
  • Mark Fournier – August 29
  • Rebecca Riley – Break Up
  • Wilma Ann Johnson – November Blessing
  • Rochelle Wilson – God Knows

Randolph Village Laundromat
75 North Main Street

  • Partridge Boswell – Two Euros
  • Wilma Ann Johnson – Transition

Chandler Music Hall 71-73 North Main Street

  • Marjorie Ryerson – S. Hurok Presents
  • Janet Watton – Winter Dances

Kimball Public Library67 North Main Street

  • Stephen Morris – Citizens of Library
  • Judy Crocker – A Writer’s Place

Randolph House65 North Main Street

  • David Stauffer – In My Son’s Eyes
  • Suzanne Sakai – Old Maples: One Hundred Years of Marriage

Super Suds Laundromat10 Pleasant Street

  • Michelle Holder – Light Denizens
  • Steven Augustus – Asking Baskets for Heads
  • George Murphy – A Gift & Moonlight

Three Bean Café22 Pleasant Street

  • Julie Cadwallader Staub – Recipe
  • Michelle Holder – Astral
  • Wilma Ann Johnson – Thanksgiving Eves

The Herald30 Pleasant Street

  • Marjorie Ryerson – To Anne Sexton
  • Katie Jickling – Dissection
  • Dick Drysdale – Osama Bin Laden Watches His First Episode of the Jerry Springer Show

First Light Studios34 Pleasant Street

  • Shannon Blake – 35 mm

Catamount Solar 34 Pleasant Street

  • Charles Sabukewicz – The Blue Woodstove
  • Joyce Borthwick-Leslie – Closure

Vermont Computing Cooperative 23 Merchants Row

  • Jack Rossi – August
  • Gina Logan – Always May
  • Peggy Rose Whiteneck – What Goes Together Stays Together
  • Pam Ahlen – Mission Impossible?

The Black Krim Tavern 21 Merchants Row

  • Charleigh – Heirloom Dreams

 Sidewalk Florist19 Merchants Row

  • Lindy Sayward – Ode to Brown Eyed Susans
  • Pam Ahlen – Dying Queen Anne’s Lace

Fenix Fine Foods20 Merchants Row

  • Jack Mayer – Green Tea on Jay Peak

Flats Tatooing of Vermont18 Merchants Row

  • Guy Flatley – Dog Prayer

Fisher Auto Parts10 Merchants Row

  • Steven Augustus – In Order
  • Margaret Abbott – Rebirth
  • Christen Brooks – That First Night (Nicholas Garza)
  • David Stauffer – To a Cicada
  • Gina Logan – Winterkill

One Main Tap & Grill2 Merchants Row

  • Becky McMeekin – Kodachrome
  • Jamie Gage – Mallaig, 1901
  • Katie Jickling – The Things You Knew: A Eulogy
  • Daniel Lazar – If This World Was Enough For You It Will Be Enough For Me

Clara Martin Center11 North Main Street

  • Nancy Hewitt – Genealogy
  • Daniel Lazar – Enough (for the Hard Nights)

Belmains14 North Main Street

  • Marya Merriam – Poems everyone else has written, Part I
  • Robbie Pfeufer Kahn – Bruxism watch
  • Barbara Stearns – Rooted in Vermont
  • Alec Hastings – Old Shoes
  • Debby Franzoni – Grown Up in Vermont
  • Ina Anderson – Prodigal
  • Daniel Lazar – Warning
  • Janet Watton – Ant Hills

Lake Sunapee Bank 21 North Main Street

  • Gary Margolis – Launch Day at Basin Harbor
  • Nancy Hewitt – Since you died,
  • Julie Longstreth – Grief
  • Megan Buchanan – Winter Polaroids from Vermont
  • Danny Dover – Under Aegis of High Pressure
  • Partridge Boswell – Lucky Scars
  • Charles Sabukewicz – Night Visit
  • Verandah Porche – What ISIS is Not

Art of Vermont27 North Main Street

  • Megan Buchanan – How Did You Know
  • Partridge Boswell – Shut Up & Kiss Me

Ken’s Barbershop33 North Main Street

  • Bonnie Beck – William Francis Beck 1943 – 2015

Holiday Beauty Salon33 North Main Street

  • Chloe Viner – Doors

The Frankenburg Agency35 North Main Street

  • Margaret Abbott – Infatuation

Bethany Church Office29 North Main Street

  • Katie Jickling – Out of Eden
  • Michelle Holder – Of Farm and of Faith: An Offering
  • Gary Margolis – Taking the Weather Personally

DuBois & King28 North Main Street

  • Dick Drysdale – Lethal Injection

Station Break26 North Main Street

  • Chloe Viner – Hairdo

Blue Moon6 North Main Street

  • Becky McMeekin – Netherland
  • Marjorie Ryerson – Blending with Light
  • Julie Longstreth – November
  • Kathryn Dodge – Culture Clash
  • Robbie Pfeufer Kahn – The morning of the day she died

Northfield Savings Bank2 North Main Street

  • Verandah Porche – Life After Death: How One Swallow Makes a Summer
  • Jamie Gage – Billy
  • Gary Margolis – Electing Winter
  • Jack Mayer – Receive What Is Offered
  • Julie Longstreth – Toad

East Garden – 3 Salisbury Street

  • Janet Watton – Un Bel Di

 Wilson Tire – 5 Salisbury Street

  • Julie Cadwallader Staub – Winter Sacrament

Randolph Municipal Building7 Summer Street

  • Donald Payton – Vermont is God’s Country
  • Chloe Viner – Trying to Find You
  • Pam Ahlen – Nature is not a place to visit, it is home
  • Kathryn Dodge – From His Point of View

Randolph Coal & Oil8 Salisbury Street

  • Roger Dodge – Reception
  • Anne Bower – Grit

Randolph Police Station6 Salisbury Street

  • Laura Foley – The Sound of the Space

Bob’s M&M Beverage4 Salisbury Street

  • Laura Foley – Tientsin, December 1941

Randolph Depot2 Salisbury Street

  • Joyce Borthwick-Leslie – Duty

StagecoachDepot Square

  • Dick Drysdale – People who Talk

Randolph Village Pizza1 South Main Street

  • Ian A. Worley – Rules at Our Home

NAPA / Randolph Auto Supply3 South Main Street

  • Jack Mayer – A Boy Is Missing
  • Julie Cadwallader Staub – Lesson Before a Road Trip
  • Andrea Rogers – Fall Wonder
  • Ian A. Worley – Goshawk Guilt
  • Peggy Rose Whiteneck – Branding

The Playhouse11 South Main Street

  • Marya Merriam – I can compartmentalize, so these things are separate:

Mid-State Sports17 South Main Street

  • Bonnie Beck – Gatling Gun

Vermont Maple BBQ – 17 South Main Street

  • Roger Dodge – Sonatina

China Jade – 17 South Main Street

  • Janet E. Green – My Mother-in-Law

Beacon Printing 18 South Main Street

  • Suzanne Sakai – December’s Infinity
  • James Barrett – So Many Trees

Curves – 12½ South Main Street

  • Cynthia Liepmann – it’s an odd thing

Century 21 12½ South Main Street

  • Judy Crocker – Home Cooking

Al’s Pizza12 South Main Street

  • James Barrett – In the Deep Green
  • Steven Augustus – Cool In Its Right Time
  • Kristin Husher – A tiny chime
  • Anne Bower – Ink

Former Verizon Building
corner of Main Street and Merchants Row

  • Ina Anderson – The Taj Across the River
  • Debby Franzoni – A Vermont Neighborhood – 1950’s
  • Kathryn Dodge – Taking Time
  • Barbara Stearns – The Perfect Gift
  • Robbie Pfeufer Kahn – LL Bean Transforming

Gifford Thrift Shop52 South Main Street

  • Alec Hastings – American Mona Lisa

Randolph Regional Veterinary Hospital86 Dylan Drive

  • Charles Sabukewicz – The Stone Cat
  • R.D. Colgan – Entertainment
  • Peggy Rose Whiteneck – Why Talk to Animals?
  • Sandra Maccarrone – Three Cat-lets

Central Supplies839 VT Route 12

  • Nancy Hewitt – Sebastian

 Chef’s Market – 839 VT Route 12

  • Becky McMeekin – New Fruit