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'Forty Poems for Forty Pounds' Local writer Trish Dougherty teams up with Project Y Theatre artistic director Michole Biancosino to present Forty Poems for Forty Pounds ( To Be Read by the Refrigerator Light), a staging of Dougherty’s recent poetry collection of the same name. The poems, brought to insightful and vulnerable life onstage by 40 community performers, are Dougherty’s reckoning with weight stigma, diet culture and the lifelong journey toward self-love. Audience members enjoy a cash bar, free cannoli (it’ll make sense once you see the show), interactive preshow games and a book signing.
40 community members bring 40 Forty Poems for Forty Pounds to life onstage for one night only in Middlebury - there will be poetry, performance, pop up events, and free cannoli! After battling food, weight, and self-esteem issues for years, Trish Dougherty, a poet, mother, and graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English in Middlebury, Vermont, decided to employ her strengths of self-perception, humor, and the written word to wrestle her demons to the ground. While touching upon the shame of diets, the pressure of media-shaped expectations, and self-love, Forty Poems for Forty Pounds also weaves the constant