Randolph Attorney
Is Pothole Laureate

 

The position of Pothole Laureate carries both benefits and obligations. The chief benefit was a half gallon of 2008 fancy syrup from the Silloway sugarhouse in Randolph Center. The obligation was to stand in a pothole to be photographed, to which Atty. Miller gracefully consented. (Herald / Bob Eddy)

Karen Miller of Prospect Avenue, Randolph, was selected this week as The Herald’s first Pothole Laureate. Miller’s name was drawn from among authors who had submitted entries in The Herald’s Pothole Poetry Contest. The contest attracted 100 entries, of which 44 were printed in the April 7

newspaper. Poems from the contest were also read on WDEV radio, on Vermont Public Radio hosted by Steve Zind, and from the pulpit of at least one local church.

Readings of three poems, as heard on VPR, can be found at www.vpr.net/news_detail/80029/. They are by Peter Nowlan, Jean Merrill, and "Alex Canarsie."