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"Poetry, the spoken word, & the literary arts." Celebrating all things word-inspired weekly on Central VT Community Radio, WGDR.org, Sundays @ 5 p.m.

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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Come lend a hand if you’ve ever lent an ear or a voice to BonMot. givebutter.com/cvcr-fall-fu...
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Decca Records 50s, all waltzes & foxtrots…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
StratComm kids were “uh-oh” cautious, Chinese journalism students w/ multifaceted cultural perspectives on family and differing journalism norms interjected so many thoughtful what-ifs. Photo-j students were no-nonsense: get the shot, get the facts, ala Cartier-Bresson, the decisive moment, forever
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reading this @mizzou in intro multimedia (photo-j) always led to amazing conversations on dogged reporting and fact-checking, especially when weighed against ethics of representation concerns.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wendell Berry’s done gone on…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@libertyhardy.bsky.social Remember the Betty Page filing cabinet of infamy? It lives on with a VT teenager who couldn’t pull her pickup truck over fast enough to grab it from my free pile. There is a skid mark in the street out front.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sept. poetry @Old West Church in Calais, Vt
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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🎞️ 2026 Lasker Video Contest winner Lindsey Ramirez discusses new findings suggesting that even small amounts of alcohol may be harmful to your health—and explains how these findings fit into the broader process of scientific discovery. 🧪 The University of Illinois System #SciComm #AcademicSky
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fred Moten wades in… www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgTd...
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Fred Moten reads "tiling, lining notes" from perennial fashion presence falling
YouTube video by Griffin Poetry Prize
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Magliozzis forever…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Whammy Bar poppies, Maple Corner, Vermont.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
GooGooMuckification:@cornerrobot.bsky.social
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From “Kropotkin Says” by Bread & Puppet
Skeleton says: with so much end ahead of us we are obliged to endless beginnings
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/07/2026
Most Americans believe the country has moved away from its founding principles as the nation prepares for its big 250th anniversary, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More like a starfish than a legit Black-eyed Susan… minimalist beauty.
And eight-petaled yellow flower over lush green foliage and pink clover
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Adamant, VT, post-Blackfly Festival
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Cherry blossoms by the Winooski River, Richmond, Vt
5 cherry flowers in various stages on blossoming w/ green grass background
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A burgundy beaut…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Not quite leafy on the edge of the Northeast Kingdom… although trillium and forsythia popped.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Vermont Poet Laureate holds forth on her predecessor. Not to be missed…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Tonight at 6 pm❗️
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Anyone with a 2026 PoemCity poem in a Montpelier window is cordially invited to come read at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Wed 4/29 at 6pm! Lend yr ears!
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You know who’s NOT in the Epstein files…The Southern Poverty Law Center.
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a close up of a barbie doll with blonde hair and blue eyes .
ALT: a close up of a barbie doll with blonde hair and blue eyes .
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage.
A woman answers the door.
We have come for the child, says the hooded figure
So soon? she asks
It is time, says the hooded figure.
The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card!
What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure
We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! 
For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness
Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman,
the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them.
Do not cry mother. 
I am a writer now.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Past RI Poet laureate Tina Cane today on BonMot @ 5pm on wgdr.org, recorded live last week at Kellogg Hubbard library. Lend your ears.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Or having tea with ancient Chinese poets and surrealistic French troublemakers! ;)
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Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Heidelberg University Library gives excellent staircase
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Vermont Poet Laureate Bianca Stone begins her new State Of Poetry series w/ an examination of the life and poems of Robert Frost. BonMot recorded live yesterday in Chester. Dial up wgdr.org at 5 pm and lend yr ears. Explore the paradox of solitude & community.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@modaviau.bsky.social Owen Bradley passed this week, alas… he was loved! www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/201...
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Signs Of Love: How An Anonymous Artist Sparked A Town-Wide Debate In Plainfield
In the heart of Plainfield there’s a utility pole covered with messages of love. But not everyone in town is moved by the mysterious “love” signs.On the…
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Meg Reynolds, artist, poet and educator reads poems from her new book CONDITION today on BonMot on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears at 5pm (and donate to the BonMot page for the biannual WGDR FunDrive).
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@angelacoraccio.bsky.social And you shall have the loveliest of days too, Bambina! as ever, Reecardoe
A giant slice of 12 layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Big news WGDR/WGDH listeners! We are doubling our height. Our FCC application to move our antenna was granted. That’s good news for community radio (and remarkable news that part of the government is working).
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
just a little edit ala Albert Einstein...
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Before ya know it... it'll be forsythia time
A concrete poem about for forsythia bushes photographed at the Ruth Stone House on Valentine's Day
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Cool finds in copper! Wonder how many things this little rascal his bought since 1916!?!
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Napoleon D. rides on the shoulders of Giants!
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
NH Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello's new book pub day is Wed. Feb. 5th. She's reading in the capital city in celebration!
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Gina Tron @ginatron.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As a sexual assault survivor and volunteer advocate with RISE, I helped bring this bill idea to Vermont lawmakers. It was introduced this month and I would love your support. Please sign or share if you believe in this. www.change.org/p/update-ver...
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@onthemedia.bsky.social VT historian Garret Graf's authoritarianism explainer w/ Brooke was amazing context. See more at www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...
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"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Utterly prophetic, was Rev. King and JFK as well...
A snippet of MLK's speech against the Vietnam War
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Dually MFAed in poetry and fiction from Iowa Writers Wkshop, then M.DIVed by Starr King Seminary, Jennifer Whitten may versify, narrate, or preach on BonMot Sunday!?! Lend yr ears at 5pm on WGDR.org
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Poet, editor, Poetry Society of Vt exec Buffy Aakaash shares poems from his 2025 book, Breaking, 2022's Untangling the Knots, and new work in progress on BonMot at 5pm Sunday on WGDR.org. Lend yr ears!
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
38 VT authors' visions of VT were curated by Bill Mares in "Vermont 2050" & posthumously published by Bill's sweetie & a "pod" of beloveds. It debuted at St.J Atheneum w/ 6 authors sharing their visions. Lend an ear at 5 PM on Bon Mot WGDR.org
Pink and white hydrangeas on the shore of the upper Mill pond in Adamant Vermont
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Virginian become Vermonter, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Goddard College Creative Writing program cofounder has put up her pen for good. On Bon Mot at 5pm today we'll hear a lovely reading from her 2nd & 3rd books from 1987 on WGDR.org. Lend an appreciative elegiac ear.
Headshot of poet Ellen Bryant Voigt, with silver hair and green eyes, wearing navy blue with a black bachground.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Like you, I remember W, incredulously, saying stuff like "Don't they understand we create our own reality?" and now I understand the puppet masters and their strings upon him.
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RadioBonMot @bonmot.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I saw this Rick Winston presentation in Adam-ant. Really amazing. A great piece of film historiography.
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