New England Poetry Club Please join us for our upcoming reading and open mic on Tuesday, December 5th from 7:00-9:30 pm at Harvard’s Yenching Library! The NEPC First Tuesday reading series, Members with New … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, selected by Jennifer Militello Honorable mention: Lynn Pedersen, The Nomenclature of Small Things The Birth of Superstition It’s not hard to imagine: my ancestor—a dry season, … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, selected by Jennifer Militello Honorable mention: Jenny Molberg, Marvels of the Invisible Marvels of the Invisible With your new … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, selected by Jennifer Militello Winning Poet: Anna Rabinowitz, Words on the Street THE TIME WAS THE TIME Torn by worn-thin profits stitched to … Read more
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Sara Backer Winning Poet: Krysten Hill, How Her Spirit Got Out This Mouth Never your bird, never finch, never graceful feathered thing. Maybe litany … Read more
Firman Houghton Award, selected by Sam Cha Winning Poet: D.G. Geis, “Psalm 152 (A Song of Ascent)” Psalm 152 (A Song of Ascent) Dying of Parkinson’s my mother’s handwriting … Read more
Gretchen Warren Award, selected by Donald Vincent Winning Poet: Hilde Weisert, “Ars Poetica” Ars Poetica “I learned to talk from my mother,” I said, and was startled: Doesn’t everyone? … Read more
Gretchen Warren Award, selected by Donald Vincent Winning Poet: Leslie McGrath, “Encountering Franz Wright Along the Way” Encountering Franz Wright Along the Way I had been dawdling I don’t … Read more
Der-Hovanessian Award, selected by Chloe Garcia Roberts Honorable mention: Len Krisak, translation from the Latin of lines from “Pharsalia” by Lucan LUCAN: PHARSALIA (The Civil War), Book III, 1-35 As … Read more
Der-Hovanessian Award, selected by Chloe Garcia Roberts Honorable mention: Stephen Massimilla, translation from the Italian of “The Hitlerian Spring” by Eugenio Montale The Hitlerian Spring “Nor she who turns to … Read more