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Professor Vievee Francis Wins Vermont Book Award

Professor Francis has won the 2023 Vermont Book Award.

  • Vermont Book Award for Poetry

    Vermont Book Award for Poetry sculpture, designed and created by Vermont artist Trevor Corp.
    Photo courtesy of Trevor Corp.

  • The four Vermont Book Award sculptures

    The four 2023 Vermont Book Award sculptures, designed and created by artist Trevor Corp.
    Photo courtesy of Trevor Corp.

  • On the cover of the book The Shared World by Vievee Francis, a young woman and an older man look with intense emotion at each other.

    Cover of The Shared World by Vievee Francis

Professor Francis has won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry, the highest honor for poetry in the state of Vermont, for her fourth book of poems The Shared World. The winners of this year's award were announced at a ceremony held on Saturday, May 4th, in Montpelier. Read the Seven Days article here.