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SUMMARY:NEPC  + WCPA: Gloria Monaghan\, Ivy Schweitzer\, Renee Slovick
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club is delighted to team up with the Worcester County Poetry Association for a collaboration to round out National Poetry Month! The event takes place on Sunday\, April 26\, at the Park View Room\, 230 Park Avenue in Worcester. (Please note: this is a change from the originally announced location.) The reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. Join us! \nGloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry: Diary of Saint Marion\, Lily Poetry Review\, (2025)\, Cormorant on the Strand\, Lily Poetry Review (2023)\, Hydrangea\, Kelsay Press\,(2020)\, Torero\, Nixes Mate\, (2020) False Spring\, Adelaide Books\, (2019)\, The Garden\, Flutter Press (2015)\, and Flawed\, Finishing Line Press (2011). Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review\, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize\, for the Griffin Prize\, and for the Shelia Margaret Motton Award. She was a Semi-Finalist for the Tenth Gate Prize. She is also a film maker. \nBorn in Brooklyn\, Ivy Schweitzer lives in Norwich\, Vermont and has taught American Literature and Women’s Studies at Dartmouth College. She writes about cultural identity and social justice from a feminist and Jewish perspective. Her poems have appeared recently in Passager\, Ritualwell\, Tikkun\, New Croton Review\, Mississippi Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners’ Anthology 2024 and The Mountain Troubadour. Finishing Line Press published her debut solo collection\, Dividing Rivers\, in 2025. Visit her author page https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/. \nRenee Slovick writes poems and short stories and drinks too much Diet Coke. She was born and raised in NYC but you can only hear the accent when she gets mad. She’s not a Yankees fan\, which became really important when she moved to Worcester in 2002. She married a guy who took her to an arcade on their first date and has one human son and one cat son. These days she likes to hyper focus on horror movies and serial killers\, and fall asleep to true crime documentaries. Her favorite tarot card is The Hanged Man.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-wcpa-gloria-monaghan-ivy-schweitzer-renee-slovick/
LOCATION:Park View Room\, 230 Park Avenue\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Barbara Cassidy\, Jennifer M Phillips\, Vijaya Sundaram
DESCRIPTION:On May 16\, please join the New England Poetry Club in a return to the Menino Arts Center in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The reading begins at 3:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. \nThe Menino Arts Center\, located at 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. \nBarbara Cassidy is a poet\, singer-songwriter\, and Sean-nós singer who resides in Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Open Doors Review\, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets\, The Stonecoast Review\, on the 2023/2025 Martin Poetry Path in Newton\, among others\, and have been set to music by composer Eric Chasalow. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook\, Divination (Dancing Girl Press\, 2026). \nJennifer M Phillips is a boundary-crosser\, retired skydiver\, and bonsai-grower\, and has authored three chapbooks\, Sitting Safe In the Theatre of Electricity\, A Song of Ascents\, and Sailing to the Edges\, and a collection\, Wrestling with the Angel. Phillips’ work has appeared in over 140 journals\, recently Spoon River Poetry Review\, London Grip\, and The Alembic)\, and was thrice-nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize and an Eyelands Book Prize. She is moved to write poetry these days by changing landscapes during climate shift and the need for a new communitarianism to forge connections in our time of fragmentation. \nVijaya Sundaram is an Indian-born\, Medford-based poet\, musician\, artist\, and community college professor. She served as Medford’s second Poet Laureate between 2023-2025. Her first collection of poems\, Fractured Lens\, was published in 2023 by Červená Barva Press. Her second poetry book\, Reverberations\, was published in 2025 by Ibbetson Street Press. Aside from poems\, she has written short stories\, plays\, and a short novel. Her poetry and short pieces have appeared in publications like The Rising Phoenix Press\, the Stardust Review\, and TELL Magazine\, among others. She has read her poems at poetry events in and around the Boston and Greater Boston areas\, and currently runs an Open Mic for Poetry and Original Song at the Arts Collaborative Medford\, as well as a Medford Poetry Club at the Medford Public Library.  She is a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals for 2026.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-barbara-cassidy-jennifer-m-phillips-vijaya-sundaram/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Diana Cole\, Paula J. Lambert\, Gail Hanlon
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, kicks off on Sunday\, May 31. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard\, stroll along the Concord River\, or enjoy a picnic on the grounds. You can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. \nDiana Cole\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, has been published in over 60 poetry journals\, including Poetry East\, Spillway\, The Public’s Radio 89.3\, Friends Journal\, Verse Daily\, and Orison Books. For five years\, she was a senior editor for The Crosswinds Poetry Journal. In 2025\, she was awarded first place in the Notable Works Poetry Initiative\, judged by Tina Cane\, RI Poet Laureate Emerita. As a singer and vocal coach based in Massachusetts for over 40 years\, she offers workshops to poets in Reading Aloud. In addition to her writing\, she is a stained-glass artist working in Warren\, RI. To connect artists and poets\, she organizes Ekphrastic events for various galleries in Rhode Island. Her chapbook\, Songs by Heart\, was published by Iris Press\, and in 2018 her full-length book\, Between Selves\, was released in 2023 by Indian Press (Cyberwit.net). More information at dianacolepoets.com. \nPaula J. Lambert has published five full-length poetry collections\, including Terms of Venery\, Revised (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2025)\, and six chapbooks\, including Sinkhole (Bottlecap Press 2025). Lambert\, a native of Shirley\, Massachusetts\, and winner of the New England Poetry Club’s 2023 Amy Lowell Prize\, is  also a literary translator\, small press publisher\, and visual artist. Now living in Columbus\, Ohio\, her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council\, the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her mentorship has been recognized by PEN America. She lives in Columbus with her husband\, Dr. Michael Perkins\, a philosopher and technologist. More at www.paulajlambert.com. \nGail Hanlon’s poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Cincinnati Review\, CutbankOnline\, The Iowa Review\, Pittsburg Review\, New Letters\, Verse Daily\, and BEST AMERICAN POETRY\, among other journals and anthologies. She has published Silent Letter (Cornerstone 2023) and two chapbooks\, and also edited Voicing Power: Conversations with Visionary Women. Her work received the National Writer’s Union Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the Iowa Review Award and CutBank’s Patricia Goedicke Prize\, and long-listed for Cutbank’s Chapbook Award\, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize at VERSE\, and OSU’s The Journal Wheeler Prize\, among others.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-diana-cole-paula-j-lambert-gail-hanlon/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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