NEPC @ Chesterwood, with Tim Mayo and Pamela Wax
The New England Poetry Club is delighted to join forces with Chesterwood, the former summer home and studio of Daniel Chester French, for “We (too) the People: Voices from the New England Poetry Club.” This is the second of two NEPC events included in the 2026 ArtsAlive! series, held in Daniel Chester French’s studio. This month’s reading features NEPC members Tim Mayo and Pamela Wax.
Admission (including refreshments): $10, National Trust for Historic Preservation members / $15 non-members.
Tim Mayo is the author of two previous full-length poetry collections, The Kingdom of Possibilities (2009), and Thesaurus of Separation (2016) and two chapbooks, The Loneliness of Dogs (2008) and Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper (2019). He holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from Bennington College. A ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a two-time finalist for the Paumanok Award, Mayo is also the recipient of three Vermont Writers Fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, as well as being a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Montaigne Medal. He lives in Brattleboro, VT, where he has worked for fifteen years at the Brattleboro Retreat, a mental institution, as both a teacher and a mental health worker, and where he is also a founding member and organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
Pamela Wax is the author of the poetry collections Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022), Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press, 2023), and Every Single Beast of My Heart (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2026). Her poems, appearing in over 60 publications, have received several awards and three Best of the Net nominations. In addition to being a poet, Pam is also an ordained rabbi and a sought-after teacher. After working as a congregational rabbi, a hospital chaplain, as assistant director for adult education for the Reform movement nationally, and for 19 years as staff rabbi at a social service agency, she currently serves as director of adult education and programming at a synagogue in Pittsfield. She lives in North Adams with her husband, her resident groundhog, and the garden that no longer is.
Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the famed sculptor of the Minute Man for Concord, MA, and the seated Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chesterwood is located in idyllic Stockbridge, MA, with multiple buildings set within 122 acres. The site includes French’s Studio, the recently restored Colonial Revival Residence, and the gardens and woodland walks that he designed.
The Residence retains original antiques and decorative objects. French’s works are featured prominently throughout the property alongside paintings and sculptures by other prominent artists. For more information about a trip to Chesterwood, visit https://www.chesterwood.org/.