This month on Brave Little State: Exploring the literary luminaries of Vermont, and why so many writers seem to thrive in the Green Mountain State.
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A woman with a passion for reading and writing, Georgeann Faller went to Goddard College and studied education. She took writing courses as well.
“When you think of snow, you think of quiet, and you think of isolation, and being cerebral … and you know, writing is a pretty solitary craft,” she says.
Faller herself still dabbles in writing poetry from her home in Thetford.
“Yeah, I live in a broken-down hippie cabin,” she says. “I’m renting this little place and nothing is level, everything rolls toward you — if you’re trying to cut on a cutting board, it’s just ridiculous. But it’s great. It’s isolated, back road, and yeah, that’s what got me thinking.”
Faller’s thinking is what led to the topic of this month’s Brave Little State, VPR’s people-powered journalism podcast: “What draws so many writers and poets to Vermont? Who are some well-known writers and poets, both past and present?”
So place a bookmark in what you’re currently reading and come along as we dive into Vermont’s literary landscape.
https://www.vpr.org/post/what-draws-so-many-writers-and-poets-vermont#stream/0