Golden Rose 2024
A warm thank-you to Jennifer Clarvoe for providing these pictures of the Golden Rose celebration, with awardee Gail Mazur, at the Longfellow House in Cambridge on June 9! This summer’s … Read more
David Miller
Summer Poetry at the Longfellow House
Join us this summer at The Longfellow House, Washington’s Headquarters, Historic Site, for our annual poetry programs! We’re delighted to participate, once again, in the Longfellow Summer Arts Festival, 105 … Read more
2024 NEPC Book Prizes and Poem Contests NOW OPEN – CLOSE May 31st
Our annual NEPC contests are now open for submissions. We strongly encourage digital submissions to our individual poem contests. Poem Contest Submission Guidelines and Submission Forms are here. Book Prize … Read more
2024 Contest Judges Announced
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Enzo Silon Surin Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured on topics such … Read more
New England Poetry Club Prize-Winners’ Reading, 2023
Watch the YouTube video of the October 8, 2023 Anthology reading
Monica Raymond, “Jersusalem”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Doug Holder and Denise Provost Monica Raymond writes poems, plays, and sometimes prose from an old house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her magical realist … Read more
Lee Ann Roripaugh, #stringofbeads
Lee Ann Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, mostly recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which was named a “Best … Read more
Halyna Kruk, “In a Small Provincial Chinese Town,” translated from the Ukranian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Photograph (L to R): Ali Kinsella, Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Halyna Kruk is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, educator, and literary critic. … Read more
Carolyn Oliver, Dearling
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the … Read more
Joyce Wilson, “The Octagonal Schoolhouse”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have … Read more