With all the available posts in the Island’s Poet Laureate Industrial Complex successfully filled, and so many eclectic cross sections of the Vineyard community seemingly faceless, it’s time to implement laureate infrastructure into all walks of Martha’s Vineyard living.

Charlie Nadler

Sometimes it seems appropriate to review a book, and sometimes, as in the case of Deadout by Jon McGoran, (Forge 2014), the jacket flap copy just seems to say it all.

Island-born Ty Sinnett was one of five up-and-coming Boston fashion designers featured in the opening show of the 2014 Boston Fashion Week this fall.

For two Island ferry captains, the end of paper nautical charts only makes them more precious – both as practical aids and works of art.

Remy Tumin

After twenty years of focusing on her Vineyard Haven gallery, Nancy Shaw Cramer is ready to take a step back.

Nicole Grace Mercier

Bonnie McElaney Menton has a clear recollection of an evening forty years ago: the day John Lennon came for a slumber party.

A studio visit with ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy.

Laura D. Roosevelt

Three Parts Romance, two parts nostalgia with a dash of African American cultural history make A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story an enjoyable Island cocktail. This slim novel follows an unlikely pair whose enduring attraction might seem unbelievable to anyone who didn’t fall in love for the first time in August by the ocean.

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