Award-winning poet Ruth Stone dies at 96

'Poet Laureate of Vermont' Ruth Stone

The dubbed ‘poet laureate of Vermont’ Ruth Stone, who is known for thirteen books of poetry has died at the age of 96 in her farmhouse in Goshen. Ruth Stone was the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award from The … Read more