Antidote Books

Join us at Antidote Books for a featured reading with Spencer Williams, author of TRANZ at 6 p.m. Saturday, OCT 5.

In her debut collection, TRANZ, Spencer Williams writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers them structurally and individually.

Spencer Williams is a trans writer from Chula Vista, California. She is the author of the chapbook ALIEN PINK (The Atlas Review, 2017) and her work has been featured in Literary Hub, Indiewire, and Polygon, among others. She received her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark, and is currently a PhD student in poetics at SUNY, Buffalo.

We’ll have mocktails & sweet corn and roasted tomatillo tamales with salsa verde.

Open to the public.
No cover.

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We’re closing for roaster maintenance this Friday, May 18. Come see us when we reopen on Friday, May 24!

Don’t miss our poetry release party and reading with featured poets Dara Barrois/Dixon (formerly Dara Wier) and Bianca Stone at 5 PM SUN APRIL 28 at Antidote Books!

This event is open to the public. No cover.

Dara Barrois/Dixon is the author of Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts (Conduit Books, 2024). Other titles include Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina (Wave Books, 2022), In the Still of the Night (Wave Books, 2017) and You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2014). She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council have generously supported her work. She lives and works in factory hollow in Western Massachusetts.

Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast.

🌖 Join us at 4 P.M. SUN MARCH 24 for a reading and book signing featuring CAConrad, poet and author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return.

Free admission. Open to the public.

Anima Mundi mocktails and snacks provided by Antidote Books.

Following their book AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Prize for Poetry), CAConrad’s Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return shifts its attention from the previous book’s focus on communing with animals who are extinct toward communicating and caring for animals still living among us.

Recalling the historical and symbolic significance of the boomerang as an instrument of return, these poems emerged from a (soma)tic poetry ritual in which the author wrote with animals who have found ways to thrive in the Anthropocene, resulting in sculptural poems that are uninhibited and mysterious as they emerge organically from the bottom of each page. Guided by the urge “to/desire/the world/as it is/not as/it was,” CAConrad writes from an ecopoetics that is generous and galvanizing, reminding us of how our present attentions collectively shape a future humanity.

“CAConrad always argues (from the inside of their poems) for a poetry of radical inclusivity while keeping a very q***r shoulder to the wheel. Their kind of q***rness strikes me as nonpolarizing, not intentionally but because of the fullness of their exposition, a kind of gigantism that seems to me to be most deeply informed by love, and a tenderness for the ravages and tumult of existence.”
— Eileen Myles

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by the artist Augusto Cascales. Visit them at linktr.ee/CAConrad88

ALIEN DAUGHTERS WALK INTO THE SUN: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang

🪩 Join us for a launch party and book signing featuring Abigail Rose Clarke, somatics facilitator and author of RETURNING HOME TO OUR BODIES at 6 p.m. this Thursday, FEB 29.

“There is such a poetry to the way Abigail Rose Clarke coaxes a new understanding of our bodies into being in this book. You will find yourself marveling at what the body is made of, what it can do, and what it can reveal to us, if we are truly attentive to it. This book is both a guide and a companion in a quietly radical quest for changing how we experience ourselves and, from that, the world.”

— TINA ANTOLINI, The New York Times

We’ll have oceanic themed elixir mocktails from 🌊🐙

🌖 For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.

With methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied whole-community liberation.

Free admission
Open to the public

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Let’s get into it TH FEB 29. Please join us at 6 p.m. for a reading and discussion featuring somatics facilitator and author of RETURNING HOME TO OUR BODIES Abigail Rose Clarke.

Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.

With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems, topics covered include:

Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentation

Using nature as a guide to possibility

Embracing necessity of difference

Dismantling the fallacy of hierarchy

Awe as a driving force for transformation

“If everyone were a storyteller, the infrastructure of the village would collapse.” — Mary Ruefle, THE BOOK

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🌒 Poet MEG REYNOLDS will read from DOES THE EARTH tonight at Antidote Books at 6 PM.

Come to our poetry event featuring .merrill & at 6 PM this THURSDAY 11/30 at Antidote Books in Brattleboro! No cover.

Sebastian Merrill’s (he/him) debut collection GHOST :: SEEDS won the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2023). Merrill won the 2022 Levis Prize for Poetry, received the Rodney Jack Scholarship from Friends of Writers, and was a member of the 2023 Get the Word Out inaugural poetry cohort. He was a staff-scholar for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2022 and 2023 and was a summer 2023 Warren Wilson MFA Alumni Residency Fellow. Merrill has also received support from Tin House Workshop and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a BA from Wellesley College.

Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England. An instructor in writing and humanities at Vermont Adult Learning in Burlington, her work has been published in a number of literary journals including Mid-American Review, RHINO, The Offing, Iterant, Prairie Schooner, New England Review and the Kenyon Review. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, her poetry and comic work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and once for Best the Net. Her first collection of poetry comics, A Comic Year, was published in October 2021 from Finishing Line Press. Her second collection, DOES THE EARTH, was published in May 2023 from Harpoon Books. Reynolds is also serves on the Board of Sundog Poetry, a nonprofit organization committed to providing and expanding poetry programming for all Vermonters.

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Paige’s restock! These individualistic pieces are poems you can wear & they won’t be here long.

We’re open for browsing regular hours this week.

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I love the universe of AMANDA PARADISE

Thank you, dear CA , for the morning visit & for signing copies of AMANDA PARADISE at Antidote Books 🌞🌖🍂

SAT NOV 4 we’re hosting live poetry with Melissa Dickey, Debora Kuan, Paul Killebrew & Adrie Rose.

Come join us at 7 PM tomorrow night 10/28 for our October poetry reading with Richard Meier and Joshua Beckman!

We’ll have wine and food and a book signing to follow.

We’re hosting poets Richard Meier and Joshua Beckman 7 PM SAT OCT 28 🪟〰️ Please join us for another evening of creating community through poetry at Antidote Books

TOMORROW 9/11 at 7 PM We’re hosting a reading with Bill Carty, Leslie Sainz and Paul Hlava Ceballos.

Come join us this MON 9/11 for a poetry reading with Bill Carty, Paul Hlava Ceballos and Leslie Sainz 🪩 7 PM Event link in bio.

Caren Berlin *signed* copies of Revenge of the Scapegoat 🖼️

When the vintage mass market paperbacks hit.

25% off all used paperbacks through 4 p.m. Sunday 2/21