Visit the brand new Tunnel Books for a poetry reading, book signing, and send-off with Toussaint St. Negritude as a prelude to his Fabulous Fugitive Freedom Suite Tour! With Amanda Harris. Event is free; donations and book purchasing encouraged.

Polly Ingraham, author of Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage, will be at the Boston Book Festival at the Grub Street table. She’ll be signing copies; books are for sale through Porter Square Books.

The all-day festival from 10 am to 6 pm features many authors and panels. For more information, visit their website.

Polly Ingraham will be in conversation with Rootstock's own Marjorie Nelson Matthews discussing her book, Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage at Still North Books & Bars in Hanover, NH. The author will sign copies following the reading.

For more information, visit Still North Books.

Author Polly Ingraham will read from Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage at her hometown bookstore in Northport, New York. Following the reading, she will sign purchased copies.

Join Nancy Gordon for a reading a signing to celebrate the launch of her debut poetry chapbook, Time Capsule. Free and open to the public.

Polly Merritt Ingraham will read from Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage at Temple Bethel on Long Island. The nonfiction work describes how an extroverted agnostic remained true to herself as her husband rose through the ranks to become an Episcopal bishop.

The reading will be followed by a Q&A and an author signing.

Author and cellist Melissa Perley will read from her new children’s book, The Violin Family Plays New Music in Waitsfield. She will play her cello, accompanied by clarinet player Tom Frink! Following the reading, there will be a special craft activity.

Join author and cellist Melissa Perley in the children’s room at Bear Pond Books to celebrate the launch of The Violin Family Plays New Music! In this second picture book in the series, Perley once again shows young readers the power of music to bring people together in a story about a friendship.

The author will be joined by musician Tom Frink for some live music. The event ends with a book signing.

Joyce Thomas will read from her third book, Some Things in This World: Poems, at Stone Valley Arts in Poultney. She will be signing books after the event.

To learn more, visit stonevalleyarts.org.

The second Annual Writing Festival at the Hay Estate at The Fells features a full-day of workshops. In the afternoon, Rootstock author Polly Merritt Ingraham is teaching a workshop, “It’s All in the Details: Building Vivid Scenes.” Ingraham is the author of the award-winning memoir, Unconverted.

To learn more, visit thefells.org/writing-festival

At Food & Art Fridays in Stockbridge, Toussaint St. Negritude will be reading with Vermont’s Poet Laureate Bianca Stone. Bring a blanket and enjoy the outdoor reading.

Learn more at https://www.thesableproject.org/food-and-art.

Catch Toussaint St. Negritude performing Mountain Spells at Sam's Listening Bar, in the basement. Copies will be for sale. He’ll be appearing with Austyn Wohlers, author of Hothouse Bloom.

The book launch for Light: A Mother and Daughter Memoir of Anorexia will be held in the community room at the Pierson Library in Shelburne. This story of “abiding love,” co-written by Nancy Y. Levine with Rachel Levine-Spates, is about obsession and OCD, family history and stigma, and Rachel’s battle with life-threatening anorexia. At the event, the co-authors will be in conversation with therapist Suzanne Adams, M.A., founder and clinical director of the Adams Center for Body and Mind in South Burlington.

A signing and book sale hosted by Flying Pig Bookstore will follow.  

Peter Cobb, author of two novels, Some Things Aren’t Meant to Be and To Alice, will be presenting at the Aldrich Public Library’s Milne Community Room in Barre, Vermont.

The event includes snacks and socializing. Learn more at www.aldrichpubliclibrary.org/authors.

Vermont writer David Budbill was inspired by his own working class background to shine a light on the lives of his beautiful, ingenious, struggling, and unseen neighbors. Presented by his daughter, Nadine Budbill, this Neighbor to Neighbor talk introduces David and Judevine: A Love Song for a Place and Its People, followed by a selection of his evocative and timeless poems.

To learn more, visit The Old Stone House Museum event listing.

Melissa Perley, author of The Violin Family, will be reading her picture book and talking about music at the Pope Memorial Library in Danville. She will be joined by luthier Paul Perley and her petting zoo of instruments. Books will be for available for purchase and signing.

The author will announce the arrival of her forthcoming second book, The Violin Family Plays New Music, illustrated by Tim Knickerbocker.

A performance by Sonic Chambers Quartet from New Orleans and New York City, alongside celebrated Vermont Poet Toussaint St. Negritude.

Sonic Chambers Quartet (“Wonderful, wildly melodic and a rhythmic dynamo" —Bandcamp Daily Best of Jazz) is a new formation co-led by New Orleans-based clarinetist and saxophonist Byron Asher and New York City-based saxophonist and clarinetist Tomas Majcherski. The multi-instrumentalists and composers have known each other and performed together for over 10 years, primarily in the New Orleans music scene. Their collaboration explores dialogues around improvisation and composition, performance, art and collectivity.

Their debut recording Kiss of the Earth was released April 11, 2025 on noted Brooklyn-based adventurous music label 577 Records. Learn more here.

P&T Knitwear, a bookstore on the Lower East Side, welcomes C.O. Moed for a discussion and celebration of her book, It Was Her New York. A mosaic of intimate photo-illustrated vignettes, the book celebrates the fierce moxie of New Yorkers, a sixty-year-old hidden love between two women, the definition of home as it slowly disappears into gentrification and what it means to be family.

Moed will be joined by author Amy Ferris. After the conversation and audience Q&A, Moed will also sign copies.

Polly Merritt Ingraham will be reading from Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage at The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Her story explores how a union between a religious leader and a secular woman survives and thrives.

She will be joined in conversation by Katie Allan Zobel.

Free and open to the public. Please register ahead of time here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/polly-ingraham-in-person-tickets-1376525517879?aff=oddtdtcreator

Melissa Perley, author of The Violin Family, will be reading and signing books at the Greensboro Free Library. Children of all ages are welcome!

The author will share news of her forthcoming second book, The Violin Family Plays New Music, illustrated by Tim Knickerbocker.

An opening reception for “Cut and Paste” and “Fire,” a ceramic and collage exhibition by the Collagistas & Ceramicist Betsy Chodorkoff will be held at the Marshfield public library. Learn more here.

The afternoon includes a poetry reading at 3 pm. Jane Shore, author of six poetry books, and Mary Elder Jacobsen, author of Stonechat, will read.

Meghan A. Patricia Wentworth, author of Stay Until Tomorrow, is a featured local author at this meet and greet book signing at Barnes & Noble Salem. Free and open to the public.

All are invited to the launch of The Mountain Troubadour 2025, the annual anthology featuring the poetry of members of the Poetry Society of Vermont. This issue is the first collaboration with Rootstock, bringing this volume to a wider audience.

The mixer and poetry readings will be in the Hayes Room at the Kellogg Hubbard Library. Learn more here at poetrysocietyofvermont.org/psov-book-launch-party.

Join Rootstock at the 52nd Annual Craftsbury Antiques and Uniques Festival on the historic Craftsbury Common, featuring more than 100 vendors, live music, and food. Publisher Samantha Kolber will be selling books and answering questions about publishing, and these authors will be signing their books:

9-11 AM

• Mary Elder Jacobsen, “Stonechat: Poems”

• Ginny Sassaman, “Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World”

11 AM-1 PM

• J. Peter Cobb, “Some Things Aren’t Meant to Be,” and “To Alice”

• Tamara Mathieu, “All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes”

1-3 PM

• Michael Freed-Thall, “Horodno Burning: A Novel”

• Roberta Harold, “Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw”

• Toussaint St. Negritude, “Mountain Spells: Poems”

Admission is free with a $5 parking fee. Learn more at www.craftsburyantiquesanduniques.com.

Polly Merritt Ingraham celebrates the release of her book, Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage, at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord. In lyrical prose, the story traces how an extroverted nonbeliever remained true to herself as her husband rose through the ranks to become an Episcopal bishop.

After the reading, the author will sign copies.

Roberta Harold will be reading from her novel, Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw, at Ventfort Hall in the Museum of the Gilded Age. It’s a fitting location for this fictionalized account of the creative life of a Civil War widow who flourishes in 1890s Paris.

This is a ticketed event. Learn more at this link.

Author Jill McCroskey Coupe will celebrate the release of her third novel, Gemma Sommerset at the Poultney Public Library. Gemma Sommerset is the story of a woman, hampered by expectations of marriage and motherhood, who dares to pursue a different future for herself. The free event includes a reading and book signing.

Roberta Harold, author of Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw, will be among the more than thirty authors from the Northeast at the Arlington Common Authors Book Festival. The free event features author talks and book signings, titles for sale, and refreshments.

For more information, visit: www.arlingtoncommon.org/book-festival.

Mary Elder Jacobsen will be reading from Stonechat, at the June Poetry Salon in the Shelburne public library. She and Angela Patten, author of Feeding the Wild Rabbit, are the featured poets.

To learn more, visit piersonlibrary.org.

Discover the world of 1890s Paris at a reading by Roberta Harold, author of Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw. The author will sign copies of her book, which are available for purchase at the bookstore.