2026 Sonnets in the Snow 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

Lori Rosolowsky: Acceptance, Robert Frost; Bird, Devon Glover

Kirk Branch: Map, Wisława Szymborska

Mercy Simpson: To be announced

Keegan Grady: God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins; Sonnets to Orpheus 13, R.M. Rilke

Lauren Chavez: The Bright Field, R.S. Thomas; Magnetism, Gillian Clarke

Ben Leubner: Getting Exercise, Ben Leubner

Erik Pearson: Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening, Robert Frost; A Song (to be announced)

Jess Benoit: Sunrise, Mary Oliver; an uplifting sing along song (to be determined)

Aaron Schuerr: On the Eight Day I Ask All the Questions, Aaron Schuerr

Luke Minton: O Captain, My Captain!, Walt Whitman; The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus

Sharon Beehler: Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Emily Dickerson

Kenda Minter: Bird Epigrams, paintings of beloved birds, oft spoken of in poetry (displayed along the route)

Sarah West: Blow, blow, thou winter wind (song by Shakespeare); I Carry Always the Invisible, Ray Bradbury

Lucas Kosel: Dreams, Langston Hughes; A Map of the New World, Derek Walcott

Mikey Gray: Every time i ever said I want to die, Andrea Gibson

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 2026: