BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//New England Poetry Club - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nepoetryclub.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New England Poetry Club
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T160000
DTSTAMP:20260526T121641
CREATED:20250327T220548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T233217Z
UID:8057-1746885600-1746892800@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Jean Flanagan\, Kevin Carey\, Colleen Michaels
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club on May 10\, as we return to the Menino Arts Center\, in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The reading begins at 2:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. The Menino Arts Center\, located 26 Central Avenue\, is an accessible venue\, with a wheelchair ramp into the building and an elevator to the second floor. We’re grateful to Home Scholars of Boston for their generous sponsorship. \nJean Flanagan is the author of two books of poetry:  Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press) and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books).  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including recently in Nixes Mate Review and in the Broken Cord\, published by Two Dogs Press. Flanagan teaches in an alternative sentencing program called “Changing Lives Through Literature”. She is one of the founders of the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Poet Laureate of Arlington\, Massachusetts. \nKevin Carey’s books include the poetry collections The One Fifteen to Penn Station\, Jesus Was a Homeboy\, Set in Stone\, the co-written Olympus Heights\, and the collaboration Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs. He has published three works of fiction:  The Beach People\, Murder in the Marsh and a new novel Junior Miles and the Junkman (Regal House / Fitzroy Books) which won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers and has been chosen for the Pen Faulkner Writers in the Schools Program in Washington\, DC. Kevin is the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. A new co-directed film MFA: The Terminal Degree\, a murder mystery comedy\, will premiere April 30th at Cinema Salem\, Salem\, MA. https://kevincareywriter.com/ \nColleen Michaels is the author of Prize Wheel (Small Bites Press\, 2023) which was a finalist for the Paterson Prize\, and coauthor\, along with Kevin Carey\, of the chapbook\, Olympus Heights (Lily Poetry Review\, 2023). She is a winner of the 2024 Ginsberg Poetry Prize and a 2024 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals.  Her poems have been commissioned as installations for The Massachusetts Poetry Festival\, The Peabody Essex Museum\, and The Trustees of Reservations. She directs the Writing Studio at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly\, Massachusetts\, where she began the Improbable Places Poetry Tour\, bringing poetry to unlikely places like tattoo parlors\, laundromats\, airports\, and swimming pools. Yes\, in the pool.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-jean-flanagan-kevin-carey-colleen-michaels/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NEPC-@-The-Menino-Colleen-Michaels-Kevin-Carey-Jean-Flanagan.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR