events

rabbit&wolf spaces are created to be safe and nurturing. respect and tolerance are required.

if you’ve never read your poetry out loud before, come to an open mic. you can be as shy as you want, but bring something to read in case you find your bravery (we’ll all be there to help). content is open to anything except hate speech.

there are also curated readings and events that seek to find subversive voices and pair poetry with the unexpected - the wild ideas will continue to unfold .

with your help, we’re building the sweetest community i’ve ever witnessed. keep showing up with your hearts in your mouths ready to speak what you know.

date change

May Queer Poetry Night will be 5/23 as your poetry pixie will be having an adventure on the third Friday this month

See below for all the details and knowings!

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

2025 event calendar

Queer Poetry Night

Please come and listen and feel and be brave and be shy. Bring us your poems or someone else's poems that you want to read out loud or a nice or sexy story that you want to tell in 5 minutes or less. Make us think, laugh, or squirm with delight or discomfort. Get wild or stay tame. We're all here to see it

**first time readers and non-reading observers encouraged**

This is a queer centered, ally friendly space. Content is open to anything except hate speech. Respect and tolerance are required.

Every third Friday !

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Poetry @ The Front.

rabbit&wolf hosts intimate evenings of poetry at The Front Gallery in Montpelier, featuring a pair of poets, at least one from the Poetry Society of Vermont

Six second Thursdays in 2025. 6:30-8p.

Past Poets at The Front can be found HERE

past events

erotic poetry night.

rabbit&wolf is bringing this steamy love-fest to Foxy’s in Barre on 2/14.

This event was born out of shedding shame around our bodies, our sexualities, and how we choose to be in the world with them. The best way I know how to do that is with writing.

Do you want to be behind the mic too? Send me 2 examples of poems you’d like to read that fit this bill. Or propose a poetry related performance that is between 5-15 minutes.

traveling poet series.

performer, producer, mentor, and award-winning poet Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey is stopping by on his tour from Iowa City!

Fri, Jan 31, 7p

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

**first time readers and non-reading observers encouraged**

This is a queer centered, ally friendly space. Content is open to anything except hate speech. Respect and tolerance are required.

September 20, 7-9p

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Poetry at The Front

rabbit&wolf hosts intimate evenings of poetry at The Front Gallery in Montpelier, featuring a pair of poets, at least one from the Poetry Society of Vermont

Inconsistent second Thursdays. 6:30-8p.

September 12 features PSOV’s Julia Alter as well as Justin Bigos!

Past Poets at The Front can be found HERE

Traveling Poet Series

This series debuts with Liv Mammone of Long Island. Liv is my favoritist queer and disabled advocate/activist poet and I am delighted to host them on their book tour!!! Come be treated with me.

Also, your adorably awkward r&w host (me) is opening the night.

We’ll maybe end with a Q&A.

August 30, 7-9p

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

rescheduled from 8/9

Heather Omand will be our featured reader to start the night before we open the floor to all the rest of you cuties. Ki will be moving to Maine and this is the final read before that happens.

**first time readers and non-reading observers encouraged**

This is a queer centered, ally friendly space. Content is open to anything except hate speech. Respect and tolerance are required.

August 16, 7-9p

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Erotic Poetry

Queer Pride Summer Lovin’ Edition!

a curated extravaganza with audience participation in the form of anonymous dirty love notes written onsite - read on the mic by your host

Friday, 6/7

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Sunday Zoomies

rabbit&wolf's final virtual open mic is featuring Poetry Society of Vermont's editor, Erika Nichols-Fraser!

THIS HAS MOVED FROM ZOOM TO GOOGLE MEET

Meeting ID

https://meet.google.com/znz-eneq-iot

Phone Numbers

(‪US‬)‪+1 470-243-0771‬

PIN: ‪309 761 534#‬

Sunday Zoomies

rabbit&wolf virtual open mic!

Sunday 4/14

2-4pm

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87965324975?pwd=VVNNaENJNm9aMWdXK3JnMTZ0ajh0QT09

Meeting ID: 879 6532 4975

Passcode: 643713

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

Friday 4/19!

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

punks & poets

a rabbit&wolf series mingling local punk/punk adjacent bands with feisty poets

debuting with Violet Crimes and Mr. Doubtfire

featured poets to be announced

.the revolution has begun.

Thursday 3/28

8-11pm

Bent Nails Bistro

Langdon Street, Montpelier

Sunday Zoomies

rabbit&wolf is trying out virtual open mics!

Sunday 3/10

2-4pm

Zoom Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82003183823?pwd=anlxektVY3FjUVVvQUZ2TUErbjY1dz09

Meeting ID: 820 0318 3823

Passcode: 826246

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

Saturday 2/24

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Erotic Poetry & Dirty Notes

featuring Heather Ormand & Miriam Ben-Dur

Anonymous dirty love notes written by you onsite - random selections read on the mic by your host

Friday, 2/9

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

1/19

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

11/17

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Another Way

Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic & Community Dinner

Friday, 11/10

5:00-6:30pm

Another Way

125 Barre Street, Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

10/13

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Another Way

Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic & Community Dinner

Friday, 10/6

5:00-6:30pm

Another Way

125 Barre Street, Montpelier

Mabon/Autumn Equinox Open Mic

Friday, 9/22

6:00-7:30pm

Skinny Pancake

89 Main Street, Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

9/16

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Queer Poetry Night

Open Mic!

Friday, 8/11

7-9pm

Fox Market & Bar

3070 U.S. Rte 2, East Montpelier

Poetry Open Mic

Due to flood damages, this will not be able to take place at Bent Nails Bistro. Consider donating to their GoFundMe if that is possible for you.

If it is rescheduled when our beloved Bistro is back on its feet, you’ll know about it!

Poets for Flood Relief Update:

As of 7/29, we raised $875 for Another Way in Montpelier and The Rainbow Bridge Community Center in Barre City. Both organizations do incredibly important work in our communities and supporting them is directly supporting the folks who live here. In the works: an onsite reading at Another Way.