Bookstock 2026 Poetry Festival

For our 2026 Poetry Festival, Bookstock partnered with Sundog Poetry. Sundog recruited some powerful poetic voices for this festival, including the New Hampshire Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello. And for the first time, Bookstock presents a reading by Vermont’s Youth Poet Laureate.

Wyn Cooper
Wyn Cooper has published five books of poetry; his sixth book, The Unraveling, will appear in May 2026. A poem from his first book was turned into Sheryl Crow’s Grammy-winning “All I Wanna Do.”

Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea is a Pulitzer finalist in poetry, founder of New England Review, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-15), and recipient of Vermont’s highest artistic distinction, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. 

Meg Reynolds
Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and in three collections.

Emma Paris
Emma Paris is the 2025-26 Vermont Youth Poet Laureate and a sophomore at Bennington College, where she studies Poetry and Environmental Science.

Xue Di
The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the US immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University.

Jennifer Militello
Jennifer Militello, the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, is the author of a memoir, five collections of poetry, and a hybrid collection, Identifying the Pathogen.