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As a town, Brattleboro has been engaging a range of voices and organizations around how to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The topic of race often surfaces in pockets, whether in a letter to the editor that appears in The Commons or a community meeting to discuss incidents like the “Black Lives Don't Matter” posters that appeared around town in 2018.
This column starts with an experience. Before closing your eyes, read these instructions: Get comfortable in a seated position. Rest both of your hands on the lower part of your stomach. Take a deep breath in and as you exhale, make an “oh” sound. Rest your hands on your...
“You never know.” That was poet Mark Statman's response to the question about when he knows that a collection of work is right or ready, especially relating to his new collection, Exile Home. Statman is bringing this new collection to Antidote Books on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.,
“Something here seduced me,” explained Cuban-American poet, author, and translator Pablo Medina in describing his decision to make Vermont his home. Medina, of Williamsville, has penned eight books that span poetry, fiction, memoir, and translation, including The Cuban Comedy, his new work of fiction released this month. The story of two poets who fall in love in Havana, Cuba, the work covers the range of what it means to love during difficult times as it inquires about the meaning and...
This column is inspired by all the young people I talked with for the story we recently wrote about youth. I continue to think about the strength, and resilience of many of the young women who talked with us. Upon returning home at night and taking off my journalist hat, their stories made me think about my own invisibility during my adolescence. I grew up in Hartford, Conn., and my interior life was different from my surface life. I masked...
According to the statistics, arts matter in Vermont. The participation of 28,708 people in the state's creative sector is 32 percent above the national average, according to a 2018 status report of the Vermont creative sector economy commissioned by the Vermont Creative Network. An additional 8,424 workers in the state do creative work within non-creative industries. Arts & Economic Prosperity 5, an economic-impact study that was prepared by the Americans for the Arts in partnership with the Vermont Arts Council,
I would like to officially announce that I will not be standing for re-election to the position as Brattleboro Selectboard member. This has been a difficult and bittersweet decision. I want to express the genuine honor, pleasure, and gratitude I felt at having been selected by the citizens of Brattleboro. It has been a joy working with my colleagues and with all town employees in service to ensuring a better quality of life for all while also exploring ways to...
Dear Brattleboro: I issue you a challenge. Are you up for it? I've been thinking about the nature of challenges and the good work that comes out when we are challenged outside of our comfort zones - the good work that can come when we think on a level outside of what we are normally accustomed to. I would like to issue a challenge to all of us - one that invites us to reflect about the ways we build...
