05/26/2025
Join us at 7 p.m. this Friday, May 30 for a poetry reading with Lesle Lewis, Jon Woodward, and Ben Pease at Antidote Books, 15 Putney Rd in Brattleboro, VT.
Lesle Lewis is a poet and multimedia artist. She’s the author of Small Boat (winner of the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize), Landscapes I & II (Alice James Books, 2006), lie down too (Alice James Books, 2011), A Boot’s a Boot (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014), Ottoline Prize winner Rainy Days on the Farm (Fence Books, 2019), the chapbook It’s Rothko in Winter or Belgium (Factory Hollow Press, 2012) and her most recent chapbook Hydrogen (Factory Hollow Press, 2025). She lives in New Hampshire.
Jon Woodward is the author of The Amber in Ambrose (TRNSFR Books, 2023), Uncanny Valley (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), Rain (Wave Books, 2006), Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books, 2003), the chapbook POOLGOER and SPELEOGRAPHER (The Economy Press, 2022) and most recently I’m I’m (The Economy Press, 2024) a 22-page poem on taxonomy, or incompleteness, or language or love. He lives in the Boston area with his wife Sam. He works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Ben Pease is the author of the full-length poetry collection Chateau Wichman: A Blockbuster in Verse (Big Lucks Books, 2017), a poetry-infused Dungeons & Dragons adventure module called The Light of Mount Horrid (Ghost in the Forest Games), the hybrid illustrated edition Furniture in Space (Factory Hollow Press), and a few chapbooks. He is a co-founder of the Ruth Stone House, Communication Coordinator at Otter Creek Engineering, and book designer for Factory Hollow Press. He lives in Brandon, VT with his wife, Bianca Stone, and their daughter, Odette.
Free admission. Open to the public.