Events

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

The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., continues on Sunday, August 23. 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

The NEPC returns to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge for the second of two poetry readings this summer. This event is free of charge, and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested. An open mic will follow the featured poets. Please join us! Thomas DeFreitas was born in Boston. Educated at ... Read more

On October 4, 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 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 at 26 Central Avenue, is an accessible venue, with ... Read more

Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading, featuring Winners and Finalists from our contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence E.E. Cummings Prize, for a compelling, lyrical, or experimental short poem Amy Lowell Prize, for an outstanding poem of any length or style by a poet with strong ties ... Read more

Claire Conroy (Beat Poet Laureate of Maine 2024-2026) has been called a “Protest Jazz Poet”, “The ‘Contact’ Queen”, “Emcee of Awesomeness” and “Soul Sister” of the Production Team for GonzoFest in NYC, July of 2026. She served as a board member of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program (2021-2026) and hosted their HOOT Open Mic. Claire ... Read more