Emma Paris, Youth Poet Laureate to Read

Join Putney resident and Youth Poet Laureate of Vermont for a reading at Putney Public Library on Tuesday, August 19th at 7pm.
Emma will be reading work written in her first year at Bennington College that has evolved from research and data that she has studied and interpreted using experimental formulas to transcribe into her poetry. This data, primarily derived from wolf restoration research, has determined line, syllable, and word count in her work, in order to embed the data in the form itself, not simply stopping at content. In addition to her scientific poetry, Emma will also be sharing work from her upcoming poetry debut, The Animal Wife.
Emma Paris (she/her) is a Putney local and student at Bennington College studying Poetry and Ecology with a focus on environmental data interpretation for creative work. Emma’s writing centers the interwoven web of trophic cascades (both natural and fabricated) that shape our interactions with each other, and the individual and collective return to innate wilderness. Through her work as a poet and student ecologist, Emma experiments with the undulating intersection of creative writing and science, while creating poetry that is both inherently and intentionally political. Satisfying the urge of creative instinct is a methodology of personal justice, sharing and creating the work with others is where collective justice begins. Her writing has appeared in VTDigger, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, the Northern New England Review, Harpur Palate, and more. She interned at Green Writers Press during the winter of 2025, helping edit and proof upcoming titles in poetry. Emma was recently named the Youth Poet Laureate of Vermont for 2025. Keep up with her on Instagram at @vt_youth_poet_laureate_2025
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.