NEPC @ the BPL: Nidia Hernández, Naomi Mulvihill, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen

The NEPC returns to the Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain Branch, for a program featuring poets based in Jamaica Plain. The reading, on Saturday, August 23, at 3:00 pm, will be free and open to the public. The JP Branch, at 30 South Street, is an accessible venue.

Nidia Hernández is a poet, translator, editor, poetry curator, broadcaster, and radio producer. Her project “La Maja desnuda” won the World Summit Award 2011 in Culture & Heritage. You can listen to her Radio show on the UPV Radio website. Hernández serves as Associate Editor at Arrowsmith Press and is the poetry curator of Poesiaudio. She’s also a board member of the New England Poetry Club. Her latest book, “The Farewell Light” (2024), was published by Arrowsmith Press. “These poems are set against an invisible clock ticking, poignantly reminding us of the fleetingness of everything—the stability of the speaker’s home country, familial memories, and lost beloveds all retreat into the sea, like turtle hatchlings guided away from the shore”. ~Patricia Guzman, World Literature Today.

Naomi Mulvihill was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her chapbook, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press), won the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her first full-length volume of poems, The Knife Thrower’s Girl, was awarded the 2022 Washington Prize (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Salamander, Cimarron, West Branch, and others, and featured in Verse Daily. Naomi’s essays on language and learning have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and Harvard Educational Review. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools.

Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is the author of They Can Take It Out and chapbooks Dead-Eye Spring and This Paper Lantern, and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems, translations, or poetry reviews have appeared in many literary journals and the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She edits poetry for Pangyrus literary magazine and teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she founded the Creative Writing Minor. She lives in Boston with her family. Find out more at https://linktr.ee/cherylclarkvermeulen.