Feel like getting in touch with your inner children’s author? Award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone, who will be giving three presentations on Sunday, 9/25, has been an editor and author of children’s literature, both fiction and non-fiction, since her graduation from Oberlin College. Her books include the Young Adult novel, A Bad Boy Can be [...]
Elinor Lipman’s Political Poetry
Do you like politics and poetry, but have a hard time finding poetry about politics? Well, you are in luck! Author Elinor Lipman, who will be performing at this year’s Burlington Book Festival, is tweeting one political poem every day from now until the 2012 election! Follow her on Twitter @elinorlipman and get your daily [...]
Philip Levine named America’s Poet Laureate
Poet Philip Levine, who will be reading his poetry at this year’s Burlington Book Festival, was just named the new United States Poet Laureate. The United States Library of Congress awarded him this great honor on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011. Levine will become the 18th Poet Laureate, taking over for poet W.S. Merwin, who is famous [...]
Welcome to the 2011 Burlington Book Festival!
The 7th annual Burlington Book Festival will take place at a variety of locations in downtown Burlington throughout the weekend of September 23 through 25. The Queen City’s 7th annual celebration of the written word will offer readings, signings, panels, workshops, demos, musical performances, family activities and special events featuring literary luminaries from around the [...]
The 7th annual Burlington Book Festival will take place at a variety of locations in downtown Burlington throughout the weekend of September 23 through 25. The Queen City’s 7th annual celebration of the written word will offer readings, signings, panels, workshops, demos, musical performances, family activities and special events featuring literary luminaries from around the world-and just around the corner. All events will be free of charge and open to the public.
The Festival would not be possible without the invaluable contribution of our volunteers. If you would like to be a part of the fun and excitement, please write us at burlingtonmag@gmail.com or call 802-658-3328.
Feel like getting in touch with your inner children’s author?
Award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone, who will be giving three presentations on Sunday, 9/25, has been an editor and author of children’s literature, both fiction and non-fiction, since her graduation from Oberlin College. Her books include the Young Adult novel, A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl; narrative nonfiction for older readers such as The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie and Almost Astronauts; and picture books for younger readers, Elizabeth Leads the Way and Sandy’s Circus.
Her work has received many awards including ALA Notables, IRA Young Adult Choice, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, Amelia Bloomer Award, Junior Library Guild, YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction, Bank Street’s Flora Steiglitz Straus Award, and the Robert F. Sibert Medal. Forthcoming titles include two picture books–Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors? (about Elizabeth Blackwell) and The House that Jane Built (about Jane Addams)–and a narrative nonfiction book called Courage Has No Color.
She teaches Writing for Children at Champlain College and has written for VOYA, Horn Book, School Library Journal and the New York Times.
Tanya Lee Stone will be sharing her picture books from 11:45-12:15 at the Black Box at Main Street Landing, discussing her Young Adult work from 1:15-2:15 in the Great Room at Main Street Landing, and will be part of the Kids and Teens Superpanel from 3-4 pm in the Great Room.
Do you like politics and poetry, but have a hard time finding poetry about politics? Well, you are in luck! Author Elinor Lipman, who will be performing at this year’s Burlington Book Festival, is tweeting one political poem every day from now until the 2012 election! Follow her on Twitter @elinorlipman and get your daily fix of both politics and poetry all in one place! Her poems have already been recognized by both the Boston Globeand the New Republic online. She has already started tweeting, so start following her today!
Here’s a small taste of Elinor’s work:
Where is Newt? I miss the strife, His shrunken staff, his hungry wife. Inflame & chafe! Stay in the race! It’s only up from dead-last place.
Check out the Boston Globe article on Lipman’s Twitter poems at:
Elinor Lipman will be performing at this year’s book festival on Saturday, September 24th at the Film House, 3rd Floor of Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center from 4-4:30 PM.
Author and artist David Macaulay, who will be presenting at this year’s Burlington Book Festival, presents “The Body as a Factory,” a visual journey through the body’s major systems, at the Los Angeles Public Library.
David Macaulay will be reading at the Burlington Book Festival’s Youthapalooza! on Sunday, September 25th, from 1:15-2 PM in the Black Box at Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center.
Poet Philip Levine, who will be reading his poetry at this year’s Burlington Book Festival, was just named the new United States Poet Laureate. The United States Library of Congress awarded him this great honor on Wednesday, August 10th, 2011. Levine will become the 18th Poet Laureate, taking over for poet W.S. Merwin, who is famous for such collections as The Shadow of Sirius and Mirgration: New and Selected Poems. Philip Levine, who was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928 to Russian-Jewish immigrants, has written over 20 collections of poetry that relate to the working class and America’s damaged labor conditions.
Levine won the National Book Award in 1991 for his collection What Work Is, which David Baker writes is “one of the most important books of our time.” Levine was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He is the recipient of two National Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lily Prize. Edward Hirsch of the New York Times Book Review says that Philip Levine is “one of [America's]…quintessentially urban poets.”
Below is a video of of Mr. Levine from the WBGH series PoetryBreaks by Leita Luchetti.
Philip Levine currently divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and Fresno, California. To read more about Philip Levine, visit http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/19. To learn more about his position as Poet Laureate, check out: http://www.vpr.net/npr/139348573/. Congratulations, Mr. Levine!
You can see Philip Levine read his poetry live at the Burlington Book Festival on September 25th at the Film House, 3rd Floor, at Main Street Landing’s Performing Arts Center. He will read from 2:45 to 3:15 PM. Free admission.
July 10th, 2011 
Melinda 
