Another busy month for NEPC members and the club as a whole! Check out some things that happened in June 2025! If you have member news to submit, remember to use our form to make it quick and easy!
We announced that NEPC Contests are now open for 2025! Read about the contest judges here: https://loom.ly/sUg7V2U. Learn about the contest guidelines and submission links here: https://loom.ly/wgxN56c.
NEPC board member Lloyd Schwartz! Was awarded the 2025 David Ferry & Ellen LaForge Annual Poetry Prize by Suffolk University for his extraordinary work in poetry, translation, and cultural commentary! (photo by Spencer Ostrander)
NEPC celebrated the advancement of one of our own: Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson!
Regie has served on the Board of the New England Poetry Club for more than a few years and has distinguished himself in his service on our BIPOC Grants Committee. He provided an excellent Poet In The House Workshop as part of our response to COVID, driving us all to Zoom. He helped judge contests on occasion, too. Regie melds many worlds—witness his funk band’s performance at the Boston Book Fair a few years ago (see photo). He gave us all these things and many smiles and laughs at Board meetings. We hope his responsibilities as Laureate will not drive him from us, but we wish him a huge, well-earned congratulations.
Our inaugural Massachusetts Poet Laureate is one of us!
Please read about it here: https://loom.ly/jJmFZEo
NEPC Member Rodger Martin’s fifth book, “The Sleeping Dogs of Lubec,” was released by NatureCulture Press. You can purchase a copy here: https://loom.ly/An0w9tU
NEPC Member Stephen Haven’s latest poetry collection, The Flight from Meaning (Slant Books, 2025), is out now! A finalist for the International Beverly Prize for Literature, this marks Haven’s fourth poetry collection. Order the book or learn more: https://loom.ly/te5aBEc
NEPC Member Carla Schwartz’s poem, “Impact,” appeared in the spring 2025 haibun tribute issue of Rattle and online. Congrats Carla! Read it here: https://loom.ly/3cELAx8
NEPC board member Doug Holder interviewed fellow NEPC poet Gloria Monaghan about her new book Diary of Saint Marion (Lily Press), her Detroit roots, punk rock inspirations, poetic relics, and the role of community in the New England Poetry Club. Read it here: https://loom.ly/-07xHOo
NEPC member Jennifer M Phillips’ “Sailing To the Edges” is now available from Finishing Line Press. This is her third chapbook, plus one collection. Scan the QR code!
NEPC board member Doug Holders interviewed Somerville poet Jennifer Badot. She discusses her early interest in poetry, influences from family and nature, and how visual art shapes her creative process. Read here: https://loom.ly/EIG0QlA
NEPC Miriam Manglani’s “Invisible Lines” was published by Kelsay Books and is available now. This is the poet’s first book.
Purchase from Kelsay Books at: https://loom.ly/N28GLIM
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NEPC Member Tim Mayo’s two poems, “A Candle For” and “A Father’s Lament,” appeared in One Art on May 30. You can read them here! https://loom.ly/oicITCE
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