NEPC September Reading at the Old Manse

Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on Sunday afternoons this September and October.

September Poets

Marcia Karp, Alan Smith Soto, Dr. Parmit Singh

Q&A to follow the reading

About the Poets

In addition to her If by Song (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2021; NEPC Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize finalist, 2022), Marcia Karp has published poems and translations in journals and anthologies in England and America, including The Times Literary Supplement; Harvard Review; Agenda; Literary Imagination; The Guardian; Ploughshares; Partisan Review; Penguin Books’ Catullus in English and Petrarch in English; Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004-2009 (Waywiser); and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton). She taught literary and editorial matters at Boston University after earning graduate degrees there.

Alan Smith Soto, a resident of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets, was born in San José, Costa Rica. He is the author of three books of poems, Fragmentos de alcancía (Treasure Jar Fragments) (Cambridge: Asaltoalcielo editores, 1998), Libro del lago (Pond poems) (Madrid: Árdora Ediciones, 2014) and Hasta que no haya luna (Until There is no Moon) (2021, Huerga y Fierro Editores, Madrid). His translation of Robert Creeley’s Life and Death (Vida y muerte) was published in 2000 (Madrid: Árdora Ediciones). His poetry has been anthologized in Poetas sin fronteras (Madrid: Verbum, 2000) and Sabia savia (Segovia: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, 2006).

Dr. Parmit Kumar Singh is from a beautiful village, Paniyadih, in the Siwan district of the Indian state of Bihar. Siwan is famous as the birthplace of the first president of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Dr. Singh is a poet and writer. He has published poetry books on Kindle, one in each language: Hindi, English, and his native language Bhojpuri. He received several awards for his poetry and writing at the university level during his college days (2001–2008). He also received an award from the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs for the National Youth Parliament Competition in 2001. In 2019, he was the keynote speaker at an event organized by the Bihar Jharkhand Association of New England (BJANE) on two Bhojpuri poets, Mahakavi Vidyapati and Bhikhari Thakur. He has recited his poems at events or open mic programs organized by several groups, such as the Annual India Poetry Meeting at Harvard University, South Asian Poets of New England, the Boston Poetry Slam, Modern Party Art, and the New England Poetry Club. The Harvard Medical Postdoc Association highlighted his poetry to celebrate “Women Through Art.” Moreover, he participated in the “Boston Renaissance” series, an initiative of the Woodberry Poetry Room, to promote collaborative writing. Currently, he works as a scientist at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. His interest is in understanding the mechanism of the integration of HIV-1 into the host genome. In his spare time, Dr. Singh enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time with friends.