As the clocks change and fall continues, we shared several great member news announcements! Here is a recap for October 20236. If you are an NEPC member, be sure to submit your news using our Member News Form!
NEPC member Lorie Greenspan’s book “Einstein’s Head,” published by TriMark Press, is available for preorder. This is the poet’s first book! You can order here: https://loom.ly/SmZTXog
NEPC Board Member Doug Holder shares his latest interview with Jon D. Lee, discussing Eden, on his Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog. Read the full interview here: https://loom.ly/T4lEoKQ
NEPC Member Jennifer Barber’s “A Prevalence of Angels,” published by The Word Works, is available now. This is her fifth book. Purchase a copy here: https://loom.ly/LUvs6fk
NEPC Member Barbara Cassidy’s poem “Raffaele” appears in the upcoming anthology, Still from Somewhere, by Quillkeepers Press. You can order here: https://loom.ly/nyLFxg0
NEPC Member Mary L. Serantoni’s poem “Unfathomable” appears in the Ukrainian Voices–Nonfiction category
of Another Chicago Magazine, published on September 17, 2026.
You can read the poem here: https://loom.ly/-5Q6mMc
The poem is after a Reuters Photograph by Alkis Konstantinidis, “A Daughter’s Shock as a Trip to Buy Bread Ends Her Father’s Life,” with reporting by James Mackenzie, filed April 21, 2022.
The photo can be viewed here: https://loom.ly/jpChTOs
Lee Desrosiers’ “Pocketing the Light,” published by Kelsay Books, is available now. This is the poet’s fourth full-length poetry book. You can purchase a copy here: https://loom.ly/eYs1y3c
NEPC Board Member Doug Holder shares a new installment of A Handpicked Poem on his Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene blog.
Presented by Michael Steffen, this feature explores Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Lloyd Schwartz’s “Titian’s Marsyas,” a meditation on art, suffering, and the cost of creativity, inspired by one of Titian’s final paintings.
Read the poem and commentary here: https://loom.ly/tjMVnMI
See you next month for a recap of more great member news announcements! Submit your news now!