NEPC February Reading at Fruitlands

Join the New England Poetry Club at Fruitlands Museum for monthly poetry readings this winter. February Poets: Ralph Culver, Carolyn Oliver, and Kent Wittenburg

Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets, gathering for readings by members with new books, and participating in monthly writing workshops.

Readings are free with admission to the Museum: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5. Please be sure to check in at the Museum Shop (white building) for your admission sticker before proceeding to the Art Gallery.

About the Poets

Ralph Culver- Ralph Culver moved in 1970 from Pittsburgh, where he grew up, to Vermont to do undergraduate studies in creative writing, literature, and studio art at Goddard College–and then pretty much stayed. He also has studied writing and literature at the New School in New York City and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, and filmmaking at the University of Vermont. The last couple of years he has divided his time between the Green Mountains and central Pennsylvania. Ralph’s latest collection of poems is A Passable Man (MadHat Press, 2021).

Carolyn Oliver- Carolyn Oliver is the author of three chapbooks and Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, TAB Journal, Southern Indiana Review, Superstition Review, Shenandoah, Plume, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. Her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review, where she now serves as editor. Carolyn lives with her family in Massachusetts. Her website is carolynoliver.net.

Kent Wittenburg- Kent Wittenburg resumed writing poetry and short fiction in 2018 after a 34-year hiatus during which he had a career in technology research and research management and raised two children with his wife. He then published his first book of poetry The Story is Beginning and Here I am Soaking Wet: Poems for Forest Bathing. His work has also appeared in The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (translation), La Piccioletta Barca, Beyond Words Magazine, Small Moon, and literary magazines at Hampshire and Amherst colleges. He lives in Charlestown, Massachusetts.