Events

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. Make a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard, stroll along the Concord River, or enjoy a ... Read more

The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., continues on Sunday, June 28. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors, at an accessible venue. Make a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard, stroll along the Concord River, or enjoy a picnic ... Read more

Join us at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters for an afternoon with Tracy K. Smith! It’s the first event in our 2026 We (too) The People series. Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator, and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating ... Read more

The New England Poetry Club is delighted to join forces with Chesterwood, the former summer home and studio of Daniel Chester French, for “We (too) the People: Voices from the New England Poetry Club.” This is the first of two NEPC events included in the 2026 ArtsAlive! series, held in Daniel Chester French’s studio. This ... Read more

The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., continues on Sunday, July 19. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors, at an accessible venue. Make a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard, stroll along the Concord River, or enjoy a picnic ... Read more

Join us for an afternoon with Regie Gibson, Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate, and Lloyd Schwartz, the 2026 recipient of the NEPC Sam Cornish Award. This reading is part of the second and culminating summer of We (too) The People project, an NEPC collaboration with the  Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters. The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community ... Read more

Join us for an afternoon with poets Major Jackson and Kirun Kapur!  This reading is part of the second and culminating summer of We (too) The People project, an NEPC collaboration with the  Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters. Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (Blue Flower Arts, 2023), The Absurd ... Read more

The New England Poetry Club is delighted to join forces with Chesterwood, the former summer home and studio of Daniel Chester French, for “We (too) the People: Voices from the New England Poetry Club.” This is the second of two NEPC events included in the 2026 ArtsAlive! series, held in Daniel Chester French’s studio. This ... Read more

The New England Poetry Club is proud to award the 2026 Golden Rose Award, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, to Marie Howe. This award has honored over a century’s worth of American poets whose work has deepened the imaginative life of our nation.  This event concludes the second and culminating summer of We (too) The ... Read more

The NEPC is delighted to return, for a third summer, to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event, the first of two, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested. An open mic will follow the featured poets. Please join us! Peter Payack was the first Poet Populist of Cambridge, ... Read more