Rebecca Connors

Congratulations to Harris Gardner on his new book!

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Welcome to a world where there is no time for death. It is a place and a state of mind, both for the temporal and the spiritual with space for the mundane and the extraordinary. “No Time for Death” is Harris Gardner’s fourth published collection; it is his first in fifteen years.

New Album from NEPC member Max Heinegg

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NE Poetry Club member Max Heinegg has released Through Traveler, a 14 song record of poetry adaptations from the public domain and by author permission. Taking poems that speak to the theme of travel and life’s journey, Max Heinegg has, in the words of award-winning poet John Sibley Williams, “recontextualize(d) poems I thought I already knew, returning them to poetry’s musical roots.” The album can be heard on Bandcamp and will be also available on all streaming services soon.

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Member Dzvinia Orlowsky publishes a new book of co-translations!

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The eighth volume in the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, co-translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella, brings together a selection of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poetry written over the last four decades. Having established an English language following largely on the merits of a single poem, “We’ll Not Die in Paris,” Bilotserkivets’s larger body of work continues to be relatively unknown. Natalka Bilotserkivets was an active participant in Ukraine’s Renaissance of the late-Soviet and early independence period.

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Member Denise Provost publishes new book

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City of Stories (Červená Barva Press, 2021)

Denise Provost served for many years in local government and for almost fifteen years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She has published in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, qarrtsiluni, Quadrille, Poetry Porch’s Sonnet Scroll, Sanctuary, Light Quarterly, and in numerous Bagel Bard anthologies. She received the New England Poetry Club’s Samuel Washington Allen Award in 2021, and the Best Love Sonnet Award from the Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition in 2012. Her chapbook Curious Peach was published by Ibbetson Street Press in 2019.

“City of Stories is a full length poetry collection which explores the narratives we construct to shape our world. In three thematic sections, these poems observe the shared experiences of community, reactions to current events, and the imaginative life sparked by interactions with literature. Many of these poems employ formal conventions: Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets; quatrains, heroic couplets, the ghazal and the ballade.”

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