Local Author Talk -- Gregg Orifici

Rattle of the Sun (July 2025) is an arresting, first-time poetry collection by Vermont-based poet and garden designer Gregg Orifici. One doesn't often correlate poetry and gardening with the word "arresting," but Orifici's book of poems compiled over decades, experiments with language and invites the willing reader on a pilgrimage through flowering and feeling. Gregg Orifici is a poet, memoirist, international educator and garden/landscape designer. His experiments with voice, structure and musicality commingle the intimate with the universal. He has gardened in residence at The Great Dixter in England, Villa San Giuliano in Sicily, and Jardín Botánico de Vallarta in Mexico, inspiring his creativity, both on the page and in the New England gardens he designs. Orifici holds a JD from Vanderbilt University and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Hampshire. He lives with his artist partner and four Jack Russells on a hilltop garden-in-progress in southern Vermont.