Events

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Congratulations to Mark Creaven, NEPC poet! (also note the call for submissions related to Vermont) Prestigious Awards Include First-Ever Prize for Poetry and Collaboration Between GMP and Vermont Magazine to … Read more

Virtual Reading: Afaa Michael Weaver, Sunday, July 26, 3 pm

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Please join us this Sunday, July 26, 3 pm, for a poetry reading by Afaa Michael Weaver.

This reading is hosted by the New England Poetry Club and the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters (LHWH) National Historic Site, sponsored by the Friends of LHWH.

Registration is free and easy! https://bit.ly/afaa-michael-weaver

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90160/the-little-rock-9

Poetry reading this Sunday, June 28th, 3 pm

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Gray Jacobik will read from her book, Eleanor, poems written in Eleanor Roosevelt’s voice. Please register in advance: https://bit.ly/gray-jacobik

Learn more about Gray Jacobik on her website: http://www.grayjacobik.com

In Eleanor, Jacobik presents fifty eight poems in Roosevelt’s voice told against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century. Included are poems about Franklin, her children, her mother-in-law, and her most passionate and intimate friendships; others focus on ER’s evolving relationship to servants and issues of class and human rights, as well her service to the world community. Jacobik’s monologues constitute a sustained imaginative work that embodies ER’s emotional experience, moral conflicts, fears, losses, desires, and aspirations.

Ensuring the legacy of Theresa-India Young, New England fiber artist

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Jackie McRath, NEPC poet, is raising money to administer the 2021 Invitational Theresa-India Young Show at the Piano Gallery and to complete a documentary of her life and work (more information below).

Please consider making a donation if you’re able, and please share the fundraiser (and information about Theresa) with others who might be interested.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-create-theresa039s-legacy?fbclid=IwAR3RtbZF0fOOcre8oQfVajrxD2nuc-aVJ__Fj8Y_gSe6iF0nQXo-LWK1P8o

Theresa-India Young (1950-2008), fiber artist, teacher, and griot devoted her professional life to studying world cultures, nature and the practices of European tapestry, Ikat, Kente, Backstrap, and Navaho weaving.  She taught these diverse cultural and artistic skills at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for twenty years.  Prior to her appointment at the MFA, she taught costume/textile design at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and Roxbury Community College.