Former Vermont poet laureate Chard deNiord and D. Nurkse read from their recent collections of poetry and share several new poems from their books in progress—deNiord’s Westminster West (Tupolo Press, 2025) and Nurkse’s Love in the Last Days (Knopf, 2017).
While their poetry is quite different in style and voice, deNiord and Nurkse share a common interest in how poetry functions in society as “memorable speech.” The poets invite their audience to consider how poetry weds history with the present, aligns politics with lived experience, connects unknowing to knowing, and creates form from formlessness.
Chard deNiord served as poet laureate of Vermont from 2015 to 2019. He is the author of nine books of poetry and two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). deNiord is professor emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College and co-founder of The New England College MFA Program. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont, with his wife, Liz.
D. Nurkse is the author of 12 poetry collections. He received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Tanne, Whiting, and NEA foundations, and was given the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been widely translated. He has also written on human rights, taught poetry in the prison system, and was elected to a term on the board of Amnesty International-USA. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Beth Bosworth.
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