Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: DeWitt Henry, Anthony DiPietro, Angela Patten

The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event, the first of two, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us!

DeWitt Henry’s books are Restless for Words: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2023); a U.S. edition of Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose (with art by Ruth K. Henry),  Trim Reckonings: Poems, and Do I Dream or Wake? Longer Poems (all from Pierian Springs Press, 2024).  His Perspectives: Uncollected Essays is coming this fall. He was the founding editor of Ploughshares and is Professor Emeritus at Emerson College. Details at www.dewitthenry.com.

Anthony DiPietro is a gay sex poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. He has lived throughout New England and in California, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now serving as deputy director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, he resides in Worcester, MA. He composed his chapbook, And Walk Through (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021), on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024) is his debut collection and was longlisted for a Mass Book Award in Poetry. He is also the 2025 winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize from the Worcester County Poetry Association. His writing and readings are featured at www.AnthonyWriter.com and on Instagram @ant.providence.

Angela Patten’s publications include five poetry collections, most recently Feeding the Wild Rabbit (Kelsay Books 2024), The Oriole & the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books), In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books), Reliquaries and Still Listening (both from Salmon Poetry, Ireland), and a prose memoir, High Tea at a Low Table (Wind Ridge Books). Winner of the Anthony Cronin International Short Poem Award and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Prize, Patten has received artist grants from the University of Vermont, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised in Dublin, she maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States. She lives with her husband, poet Daniel Lusk, in Burlington, Vermont, and is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in English at the University of Vermont.