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Verandah Porche

Verandah Porche is an American poet living in Guilford, Vermont.

Biography
Porche ( ;{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/BrattleboroWords/videos/verandah-porche-reading-her-poem-a-mother-relates/882368222099052/|title=Verandah Porche reading her poem "A Mother Relates" ==Career==
Career
Porche has published three books of poetry, ''The Body's Symmetry, Glancing Off, and Sudden Eden. Sudden Eden, the most recent collection, includes work from the 1990s to the 2010s. Porche has published in Ms., The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New Boston Review and Vermont Organic Farmer'', among others. During the past 30 years, she has traveled from her home in rural Vermont, writing with and for people in grange halls and garages, elementary schools and Elderhostels, nursing homes and daycare centers, mansions and soup kitchens, board rooms and basements, homes and jails, literacy programs and colleges. Porche has developed a practice called "told poetry" or shared narratives that enable people who need a writing partner to create, preserve and share personal literature. She has been engaged in residencies at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, Vermont, and Real Artways in Hartford, CT. which resulted in a published collection of her poems titled "Listening Out Loud." Recent residencies include the Police Poetry Project with teenagers and local police in Bennington, VT, and Music of Our Spheres with a 90-member women's chorus in Brattleboro, Vermont. Currently she is collaborating with vocalist and composer Patty Carpenter resulting in the CD Come Over. ==Awards==
Awards
The Vermont Arts Council in 1998 awarded Porche a Citation of Merit for her contribution to the state's cultural life. In 2012, Marlboro College, Marlboro VT awarded her an honorary degree, doctor of humane letters. ==Works==
Works
The Body’s Symmetry, (Harper and Row), 1974 • Glancing Off, (See Through Books), 1986 • Welcome To Total Loss Farm. Longhouse, 2006. • Sudden Eden. Verdant Books, 2012. Anthologies • ==References==
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