Sonnets in the Snow, Version 4.0 Program

Introduction and Directions

Fourteen performers will be skiing or walking counterclockwise on these loops. Each one will have a green sash, so when you find one of these actors, ask to hear a sonnet and you’ll be treated to beautiful and creative poetry or music delivered by our sonneteers (pictured at the bottom of this page).

Sonnets in the Snow performers and their poems

Maeve Daley: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Shakespeare, Sonnet 73

Kirk Branch: Snow Days, by Billy Collins

Mercy Simpson: Remember, by Christina Rossetti; Amoretti, by Edmund Spenser; Parody of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18

Keegan Grady: Shall Gods be Said to Thump the Clouds, by Dylan Thomas; As Kingfishers Catch Flight, by Gerard Manly Hopkins

Lauren Chavez: Peace, by Patrick Kavanagh; Glacier, by Gillian Clarke

Ben Leubner: Stopping by Woods, by Robert Frost; Cirque d'Hiver, by Elizabeth Bishop

Carrie Krause & Genevieve Trygstad-Burke (Saturday only): violin and dance (Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Winter)

Erik Pearson and Susan Miller: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 (sung), by William Shakespeare; What Lips These Lips Have Kissed, Edna St. Vincent Mallay

Jess Benoit: White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field, by Mary Oliver

Aaron Schuerr: Last Swim, by Aaron Schuerr. Plein Air painting.

Luke Minton: I Sit Beside the Fire and Think and Roads Go Ever On and On, by JRR Tolkien

Atticus Cummings: Sonnet 97, by William Shakespeare; White Eyes, by Mary Oliver

Gretchen Minton: The Snow Man, by Wallace Stevens; Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer; Sonnet 29, by William Shakespeare

Map of The Sonneteers’ Trail

Sonneteers will be traveling counterclockwise; audience travels clockwise to intersect with sonneteers.

Here are pictures of our sonneteers for this winter’s Sonnets in the Snow, February 2024: