Holly Painter
Poet // Senior Lecturer, UVM English // Director, Center for Research on Vermont
Holly Painter
Burlington, Vermont
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Featured Poetry

We drove the back roads, windows down,
past the orchard where the last pears
hung low and heavy as secrets.
You said something about the light—
how it pressed against the hills
like a hand on a door about to open.
"The pressure of all that light" — Hawai'i Review
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Academic Life

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Events

Date Event Location Type
Apr 26, 2025 Illuminate Vermont Poetry Reading Burlington, VT Reading
Mar 30, 2025 Public Philosophy Week Pub Quiz University of Vermont Talk
Sep 2024 Green Mountain Book Festival Burlington, VT Reading
May 4, 2024 Waking Windows Poetry Reading Winooski, VT Reading
Apr 29, 2024 National Poetry Month with Dan Close South Burlington Public Library Reading
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