Join us for a morning of poetry with Adrie Kusserow. Vermont Humanities will cover the entry fee for the park, so feel free to explore the wilderness after the event.
Adrie Kusserow is a cultural anthropologist and poet, the author of three books of poetry (REFUGE and Hunting Down the Monk published by BOA Editions, Ltd, New American Poets Series) and recently, THE TRAUMA MANTRAS: A Memoir in Prose Poems (Duke University Press, 2024), as well as an ethnography American Individualisms (Palgrave MacMillan, Culture, Mind and Society Series). She has taught at St. Michael’s College since 1996 where she is currently Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She was born and raised in Underhill, Vermont and now lives on the land she grew up on. Most of her anthropological humanitarian work, research and field work is on refugee health and resettlement. She has worked with refugees for over two decades internationally and locally in Vermont, from South Sudan, Bhutan, Nepal, Somalia, Tanzania, the Congo and Afghanistan. She is currently on the Board of Trustees at the Vermont Afghan Alliance and is a co-founder, (along with the Lost Boys of Sudan resettled in Vermont) of Africa Education and Leadership Initiative: Bridging Gender Gaps Through Education (www.africaeli.org) which supports refugee girls education in East Africa.
