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Daniel Nayeri, headshot. (Photo\IMDb.com)
Telling His Stories: An Interview With Daniel Nayeri
Kenzie Ribera, Staff Writer • September 3, 2025

Rice Memorial High School had the honor of hosting Daniel Nayeri, the author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, for their annual school- wide reading...

Daniel Nayeri, headshot. (Photo\IMDb.com)
Telling His Stories: An Interview With Daniel Nayeri
Kenzie Ribera, Staff Writer • September 3, 2025

Rice Memorial High School had the honor of hosting Daniel Nayeri, the author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, for their annual school- wide reading day. Nayeri has won numerous awards, including the Michael...

Emma Paris (she/her) is a first-year student at Bennington College, where she’s studying Poetry and Ecology with a focus on environmental data interpretation for creative works. Her poetry has appeared in VTDigger, Zaum Magazine, the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, the Northern New England Review, MORIA Literary Magazine, Harpur Palate, and more. She interned at Green Writers Press during the winter of 2025, helping edit and proof upcoming titles in poetry. Emma is the Youth Poet Laureate of Vermont for 2025. Keep up with her on Instagram at @vt_youth_poet_laureate_2025
Vermont Youth Poet Laureate Winner Emma Paris
Kenzie Ribera, Staff Writer • June 3, 2025

Kenzie Ribera ('26) is a student intern at the not-for-profit Sundog Poetry, whose mission is "to cultivate in Vermont audiences of all ages a love and appreciation of this art through a variety of poetry...

Celeste Hines reciting at the regional competition at the Barre Opera House. (Photo/Larissa Hebert)
An Interview with the Poetry Out Loud School-Wide Winner Celeste Hines
Kenzie Ribera, Student Writer • April 3, 2025

On March 6, at the Barre Opera House, Rice sophomore Celeste Hines competed in the regional competition for Poetry Out Loud. Poetry Out Loud is an annual competition, which all English teachers at Rice...

The Rice faculty basketball team after their hard fought win over the seniors. (Photo/Megan Shrestha)
Faculty Dominates Pep Rally Finals
Pio Bird Matarazzo, Staff Writer • February 7, 2025

The Rice Memorial High School faculty basketball team came out on top over the senior team, edging them out 6-4 during the Winter Pep Rally. "On account of the periods being so short and the score being...

Daniel Nayeri with his book Everything Sad Is Untrue.
Daniel Nayeri’s Counting of Memories: Everything Sad is Untrue
Maelyn Slavik, Staff Writer • August 29, 2025

Everyone carries broken shards of glass in their heart, and these fragments can be lifted into light, causing them to catch the image of the memories they carry.  In Everything Sad is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri does just that: he lifted up a handful of broken...

This I Believe: God is in the midst...
This I Believe: God is in the midst…
Gabriella Allbee, AP Language and Composition Student
Daniel Nayeri, headshot. (Photo\IMDb.com)
Telling His Stories: An Interview With Daniel Nayeri
Kenzie Ribera, Staff Writer • September 3, 2025

Rice Memorial High School had the honor of hosting Daniel Nayeri, the author of Everything Sad Is Untrue, for their annual school- wide reading...

History teacher Mathieu Bergeron. (photo/rmhsvt)
Mathieu Bergeron: Giving Back to the Community that Gave to Him
June 9, 2025

Mathieu Bergeron, a relatively new history teacher at Rice Memorial High School, has been teaching for four years. After attending Rice Memorial...

 Harmony Belle Devoe (Photo/ Tina Picz Photography)
An Interview with VT Youth Poet Laureate Harmony Devoe
Kenzie Ribera, Staff Writer • May 31, 2024
The cast of Into the Woods at a rehearsal. (Photo/Moorea Lambert)
Time to Go Into the Woods!
Logan Forcier, Staff Writer • March 12, 2024
Rice students and teachers at Share Your Heart, Share Your Mind. (Photo/Renzo Pizzagalli)
Rice Students Share Their Hearts
Logan Forcier and Maddie Olsen January 2, 2024
Prospective "Into the Woods" cast members at Thursday's informational session. (Photo/Moorea Lambert)
Drama Club Begins Journey Into The Woods
Moorea Lambert, Arts Editor • December 10, 2023
The Beast and the Pocket Full of Hearts
Maelyn Slavik, Staff Writer • September 3, 2025

  Once upon a time, there lived a young girl with a pocket full of hearts.  Really, the hearts were stones and the pocket was the upturned...

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