Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Vermont is Not What You Think
In the 14 years before joining the original colonies in 1791, Vermont was a feisty, independent republic with allegiance only to itself and the motto “Freedom and Unity.” Today it...
Codicil
On an arctic night, auroral lights cascade a bluish fire. Their lurid afterglow in stellar lights expire. The cobalt blue of dead encounters, electrical obscenity of arid frictions, Ignite the...
Death Penalty
I have been listening to the Supreme Court’s torturous deliberations regarding the concoction of toxic pharmaceuticals our society uses to kill criminals in the states that still believe the death...
Dream
And in no land I walk through ferns Where friends I now no longer know Wade into slippery streams, dive in dark pools and take no notice. My life, a...
Untitled Poem
In the ragtime of the mind will you or I be left behind? You will ask a question. And how will I surround it? Like a pintid aboriginal with dance...
Poem
I do not understand why those men are fishing there. There are no fish in windbreak ditches. I have fished them all before. The stagnant shallow ditches where wind can...
Seven Days Vermont Review
Book Review: The Lamoille Stories By Amy Lilly [11.25.08] People often joke that the nice thing about Burlington is it’s so close to Vermont. But they’re talking about a particular version of Vermont:...
Rutland Herald VT Sunday Magazine
November 23, 2008 By A.C. HUTCHISON “The Lamoille Stories: Uncle Benoit’s Wake And Other Tales From Vermont,” by Bill Schubart (White River Press, 2008, 200 pages, $15 paperback) Radio personality...
Chaos and Gratitude
An unavoidable part of this particular holiday season is the need to survey the wreckage of last year, and the staggering damage we and our elected leaders have wrought on our...
Listen To Anne’s Biddies on VPR
Click this link to hear the author read Anne’s Biddies orginally broadcast in December on Vermont Public Radio http://www.vpr.net/episode/45069/
We Have Opportunities
Vermont has options. In these perilous moments of great change when old things get brittle and break, savvy people design and build new things. There is opportunity in chaos for...
Laying Off Human Beings
A friend was just laid off… badly I must add. It’s not that her employer did not have to lay her off. That was not the question. The “badly” part...
