Arlene Iris Distler is a poet, journalist, and a visual artist.
She resides in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she has raised her four children, and where she has been an activist for the arts, especially literary arts.
She is a co-founder of Write Action, a networking and advocacy organization whose mission is to strengthen a community of writers and to encourage, nurture, and promote the literary arts in the at-large community.
“invisible” — poem in Montpelier’s “Poem City” storefront
She has two books of poetry, Voices Like Wind Chimes, published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, and This Earth, This Body, published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Her poems have appeared in journals in print and online, and several anthologies including Blueline Press’ Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, Vol 1 and 2, and Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, 3rd Edition, publication pending in 2022.
She has had a successful career as a journalist with feature articles on artists and the arts for Art New England, Artscope, American Craft, Southern Vermont Arts & Living, the Brattleboro Reformer, The Commons, and other local, regional, and national magazines and newspapers.
She has edited or co-edited collections of writing from southern Vermont and vicinity: Best of Write Action, #1 and 2, and Poems In The Time of Covid.
Arlene Distler has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, and PEN America.
She will be reading from her newly published collection, This Earth, This Body, at the 2022 Brattleboro Literary Festival.
Arlene Iris Distler is a poet, journalist, and a visual artist.
She resides in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she has raised her four children, and where she has been an activist for the arts, especially literary arts.
She is a co-founder of Write Action, a networking and advocacy organization whose mission is to strengthen a community of writers and to encourage, nurture, and promote the literary arts in the at-large community.
“invisible” — poem in Montpelier’s “Poem City” storefront
She has two books of poetry, Voices Like Wind Chimes, published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, and This Earth, This Body, published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Her poems have appeared in journals in print and online, and several anthologies including Blueline Press’ Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, Vol 1 and 2, and Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, 3rd Edition, publication pending in 2022.
She has had a successful career as a journalist with feature articles on artists and the arts for Art New England, Artscope, American Craft, Southern Vermont Arts & Living, the Brattleboro Reformer, The Commons, and other local, regional, and national magazines and newspapers.
She has edited or co-edited collections of writing from southern Vermont and vicinity: Best of Write Action, #1 and 2, and Poems In The Time of Covid.
Arlene Distler has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, and PEN America.
She will be reading from her newly published collection, This Earth, This Body, at the 2022 Brattleboro Literary Festival.
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The Case Against Mums
I refuse to plant mums or set them apron-prim in pots along my walk. What have they to say that hasn’t been said before? I prefer autumn’s tawdry mix of unkempt rows, sunflower’s swollen prose; stripped-down lilly’s arcs of green turned shadowy wisps; maple leaves’...
After The Retreat At Weston
Driving back I’m behind a flatbed towing two snowmobiles whose flapping dark cloth fills me with delight – I saw they’d become robes of the Brothers whose voices were like wind chimes, who spoke gospel words as if they belonged in this world, not some other. There...