Hello everyone! Here is a recap of all the New England Poetry Club Member News that was submitted during the month of January 2026!
NEPC Advisory Board Member Jason O’Toole’s poem “Hermetics” was published in Wednesday, The Second Coming, in November 2025! More info here: https://loom.ly/UvQxg-c
NEPC Advisory Board Member Jason O’Toole’s poem “Bike Messenger Girl (The Fifth Pentacle of Mercury)” was published in the Winter 2025 issue of Phil Lit. Read it here: https://loom.ly/i_cwIyI
NEPC Board Member Jason O’Toole’s poem, “Away”, a winner of the 2025 Mass Poetry Festival, was published in issue 13 of Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag. More info here: https://loom.ly/2o-yXdg
NEPC Member Mary Warren Foulk published The Show Must Go On from Fernwood Press in July 2025! Get a copy of the book here: https://loom.ly/KLQfp_8
We announced that NEPC Member Barbara Cassidy’s poem, “Unboxed”, appears online in The Stonecoast Review, Issue 24. Read it here: https://loom.ly/3FWsNRE
NEPC Member Pamela Wax’s book “Every Single Beast of My Heart,” published by Sheila-Na-Gig, is available for pre-order. This is the poet’s third collection. Pre-order here: https://loom.ly/5QwsZoM
NEPC Valerie Lawson’s “Hope on the Rising Tide” was a finalist for the Dryden-Vreeland Poetry Book Prize from Gunpowder Press. “Hope on the Rising Tide” received a Maine Arts Commission Artist Project grant and is currently seeking publication.
NEPC member Dolores Hayden had several publications to announce!
- “Horseless” and “Cherokee Parts Store” appeared in On the Seawall, published January 6, 2026. https://loom.ly/JY4dHf8
- “Without a Particle of Car Trouble” appeared in The Missouri Review as the online Poem of the Week, published August 25, 2025. https://loom.ly/7Np13O8
- “Coming of Age” appeared in The Common online, published July 31, 2025. https://loom.ly/AQQnNP0
NEPC Member Melinda Coppola’s “Little Pockets of Glow” is available now from Kelsay Books! This is the poet’s first book. Get it here! https://loom.ly/mUHbMf4
We announced that NEPC member Ed Meek has a number of published poems to announce!
- “As the Darkness Descends” appears in the latest edition of Plainsongs, published in the fall of 2025. https://loom.ly/7Dl4Dl8
- “Royal Rendezvous in August” appears in Silver Birch Press in January 2026. https://loom.ly/MO_jXws
- “Fishing with an Osprey” appears in The Nature of Our Times, published in 2025. https://loom.ly/yVI38PY
We shared that NEPC Member Sam Aureli’s debut poetry collection, On the Edge of Knowing, was recently published by Kelsay Books! You can get a copy on Amazon here: https://loom.ly/_PK4PZw
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