NEPC member Matthew E. Henry will be the featured poet at the Pour Me a Poem open mic on Thursday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. ET, hosted by Wayne-Daniel Berard and NEPC member Sara Letourneau. Pour Me a Poem is held at Wayne-Daniel's home at 51 Park Street in Mansfield, MA. (The PMAP sign will be on the front porch.) The ... Read more

Join the New England Poetry Club on Zoom as we bring the five New England State Poets Laureate for a discussion and reading. We’re delighted to host Julia Bouwsma (Maine), Antoinette Brim-Bell (Connecticut), Colin Channer (Rhode Island), Jennifer Militello (New Hampshire), and Bianca Stone (Vermont). We’ll have an open-ended discussion in which they share their ... Read more

Join NEPC member Jennifer Martelli, who will be reading from her new collection, PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE, with poets Jennifer Jean and Sara Letourneau on Saturday, December 28, from 6-8 pm, as part of the Open Doors Reading Series. 65 Washington Street, Weymouth, MA. An open mic will follow along with a wine ... Read more

The New England Poetry Club is delighted to present a reading by three poets at the Westwood (Mass.) Public Library! The reading will happen on Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. The poets will be introduced by Lynne Viti, Westwood Poet Laureate and a member of the NEPC Advisory Board. This event is free ... Read more

Poets at Large will be at The Bradley Playhouse Theater, 30 Front Street in Putnam, CT, on February 8th, 2025, from 7-10 p.m. in Passion & Pulse:  Love Poems and Rock Music, with special guests The Vig, a Worcester band.  Tickets for this special concert/spoken word smash-up that will close out Fire & Ice Weekend are $25.00 ($30.00 at the door).  ... Read more

Join us for Third Thursday Poetry! We have a 15-minute featured poet, a time to socialize with wine and cheese, and then an open mic. Before COVID, for more than fifteen years, Third Thursday Poetry was hosted in Gallery 55 in Natick Center. The founder, Molly Saccardo, re-launched the series at Ten Trees Books last ... Read more

Please join the New England Poetry Club on February 23, 2025, as we partner with the Worcester County Poetry Association for a reading at the Salisbury House! The reading, beginning at 3:00 pm, is free and open to the public. The Salisbury House is located at 61 Harvard Street in Worcester, Mass. The building has ... Read more

Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish---to let others vanish---without leaving a verbal record. — Edward Hirsch POETRY THE ART OF WORDS 2024-25 SEASON SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH | 1:30PM Plymouth Center for the Arts ... Read more

Join the New England Poetry Club on March 23, as we travel 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. The Menino Arts Center, located 26 Central Avenue, is an accessible venue, with a wheelchair ramp into the building ... Read more

Come to the Blacksmith House in Harvard Square for the launch of Grief's Apostrophe (Beltway Editions) by NEPC President Steven Ratiner! He will be joined by Jonathan Aaron, reading from Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon). All are welcome to this accessible venue.