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NEPC November Reading at Fruitlands
November 13, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Free
David P. Miller, Stephen Honig, Jennifer Millitello
Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets, gathering for readings by members with new books, and participating in monthly writing workshops.
These poetry readings will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Art Gallery exhibition “Wind from the Hills.” Drawn from Fruitland’s permanent collection, the selection of artworks in this exhibition is inspired by select poems from Fruitlands Museum Founder, Clara Endicott Sears’ 1935 anthology “Wind from the Hills and Other Poems.” The galleries feature nineteenth century landscape paintings, folk art, Shaker textiles, and Indigenous artworks, revealing the complexities of Sears’ artistic interests while reviving her words through highlights of the collection.
David P. Miller’s collection, Bend in the Stair, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Sprawled Asleep was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Denver Quarterly, The Poetry Porch, subTerrain, Muddy River Poetry Review, Constellations, Lily Poetry Review, Caustic Frolic, Clementine Unbound, and Nixes Mate Review, among others. He lives with his wife, the visual artist Jane Wiley, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Stephen Honig has published four books of poetry and one of short stories. He presently is seeking a publisher for one of his novels and preparing for 2023 publication another volume of recent poetry. He will read from his 2021 collection Laertres in America and from more current works. Steve lives in Newton with his wife, youngest of four children and an intransient dog. While often described as a recovering attorney, Steve asserts that once you become a lawyer there is no known cure. Follow him at www.smhonigauthor.com.
Jennifer Militello is the author of The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), called “emotionally resonant” by Publishers Weekly and “stunningly original” by Green Mountains Review, and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
Free with Museum Admission