An evening of poetry presented by Monday Nights Theatre Company (MNTC) and featuring the work of Sarah Audsley. July 17th, 2026 at 5pm at Crumb Factory Collective (Montpelier, Vermont). 

Given the dual existential crises of climate and biodiversity, what can poets and poetry teach us about being human and connecting as members of the natural world? Join us for an evening reading hosted by poet Amy Beth Sisson and naturalist-garden designer Rose Fairley with featured reader Sarah Audsley. 

Audsley’s collection Landlock X  (Texas Review Press 2023) emerged from the landscape of Vermont as well as her history as a Korean American, trans-racial adoptee, and both the flora and seasonality of Vermont are threaded throughout the collection.

Readers include company members from Monday Nights Theatre Company: Annie Chang (Wild Swans, Young Vic / A.R.T.; 4,000 Miles, Studio Theatre; HBO’s Peacemaker & Interior Chinatown), Emily Day Blackwell (Groundlings’ Sunday Company; Just For Laughs New Faces Characters), Rose Fairley (Pride & Prejudice Bristol Riverside Theatre; NYU Tisch, RADA alum), Kristina Mueller (Grasses Of A Thousand Colors, The Public Theatre; Madam Secretary) & P.K. Simone (Countdown; The Red Rob Roy Show). 

In addition to Sarah’s poems, the actors will perform works by poets such as Franny Choi, Louise Glück, Ross Gay, and Jacqueline Suskin and other poets that interrogate the complex relationship we have as/with “nature” at this moment in our species history.  

OUR PLACE AS NATURE is both a celebration of the wild in poetry as well as an acknowledgement of the precarious moment we are all living in. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged along with a $10 donation. Donations benefit the nascent native plant restoration nursery at the North Branch Nature Center and MNTC’s inaugural season.