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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Tribute to Rhina P. Espaillat
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is proud to partner with the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in honoring Rhina P. Espaillat\, beloved Dominican diasporic poet and English crossover poet. Espaillat will read favorite selections from her work\, alongside readings by the acclaimed Dominican diasporic poet and author Leonardo Nin and the award-winning Dominican poet José Enrique Delmonte\, with translations by Shira Zohara Dickey. To register for this event\, visit this page. \nApril 17\, 2026 | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM \nDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books\, four chapbooks\, and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections\, essays\, and short stories in both English and her native Spanish\, as well as numerous translations\, from and into both languages\, of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and websites\, and has received many national and international awards \nEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets\, the Powow River Poets\, The Melopoeia musical Trio\, and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards\, including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards\, several from the Poetry Society of America\, the New England Poetry Club\, The Robert Frost Foundation\, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic\, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. \nJosé Enrique Delmonte is a poet\, essayist\, historian\, PhD in linguistics and literature\, and architect. He has received several literary awards\, including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana\, the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair\, the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora\, Spain)\, and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House\, Madrid\, Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City)\, Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World)\, and several others. José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French. \nShira Zohara Dickey (translator) is a US-born architectural historian\, author\, lecturer\, and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages\, she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet\, essayist\, and architect\, José Enrique Delmonte\, into English. Shira’s forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history\, a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte\, and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion\, deceased MIT atmospheric physicist Ralph J. Markson. \nLeonardo Nin is a writer\, novelist\, poet\, and independent researcher in the fields of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. One of the main voices of Dominican literature in the United States and Latin America\, his published works include: Paid Space (poetry\, El Salvador\, 2019)\, That is why I will never go back (Short Stories 20202)\, I Only Know They Called her\, Shadow; At the Blue Side of Nothingness\, and many others. He is currently the director of the Taino Museum of Magua\, Dominican Republic\, and editor of Ivy Editorial of Randolph\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-tribute-to-rhina-espaillat/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000
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SUMMARY:Everyone Has a Voice: Carla Schwartz\, Nicole Rocci\, Hope Z. Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC continues our collaboration with Phillip Hasouris\, recent Brockton Poet Laureate\, for the Everyone Has a Voice” series\, presented at the Brockton Public Library. These events pair an established poet with a student poet and include an open mic. This month’s reading is hosted by Queen of Ceremonies Hope Z. Fernandes and takes place in the Driscoll Art Gallery. The library offers ample off-street parking. \nCarla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in her collections\, including Signs of Marriage. Her poem “Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother” received the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications\, including Contemporary Haibun Online\, Cider Press Review\, Door is a Jar\, Euphony\, Modern Haiku\, New Verse Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, One Art\, Pan Haiku Review\, Past Ten\, Rattle Magazine\, Pork Belly\, Sense and Sensibility\, and Verse-Virtual Online. Carla lives half the time in the greater Boston area\, and half the time on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee. She is passionate about cycling\, Nordic skiing\, hiking\, freshwater long-distance swimming\, paddle-boarding\, pedal kayaking\, reading\, and gardening. Learn more at https://carlapoet.com\, or on all social media @cb99videos. \nNicole Rocci is a poet and essayist who describes her work as observational\, curious\, and raw. She always knew she was a writer- what started as songs about teenage heartbreak has transformed into pieces on sexuality\, relationship dynamics\, and how she sees herself in the world. Nic’s poems “The Valley”\, “ Melpomene”\, and “Orion” have been featured in the literary magazine Mill Pages. While she works as a Domestic Violence Counselor in the present day\, she will always be a writer who welcomes discomfort\, curiosity\, and tenderness into her work and those who read it. \nHope Z.  Fernandes\, CAGS\, is a Massachusetts professionally licensed educator in multiple areas who has taught for decades and was a school administrator almost as long. She has data-driven experience in equity and inclusion\, as well as mindfulness and compassion education.  She has been a teacher\, Director of Language Acquisition\, Assistant Principal of Discipline\, Assistant Principal of Teaching\, Learning\, 504s and Special Education\, a Principal\, Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College\, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.  As an Educational Leader\, she has focused on Equity and Inclusion Practices as they relate to student success and educator inclusion.   \nMs. Fernandes has been writing poetry since her formative years.  Her first published poem\, “The Gallery\,” appeared in Silver Spectrum in 1989. She went on to be the Editor of her college poetry magazine\, The Tree Well.  She began the first High School competitive Poetry Slam Group on the South Shore in 1996\, where her students competed orally in poetry competitions.  She has coached three of the Massachusetts Poetry Out Loud State Champions and two second runners-up for Poetry Out Loud’s National Championships.  Her love for poetry stems from her mother\, who had a poem for every life situation.  Hope describes Poetry as honoring and celebrating each other as humans in the most compassionate\, mindful\, and humble ways; her poetry celebrates Cape Verdean Culture\, family\, and her students.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/everyone-has-a-voice-carla-schwartz-nicole-rocci-hope-z-fernandes/
LOCATION:Brockton Public Library\, 304 Main Street\, Brockton\, MA\, 02301\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Jason O’Toole\, John Pijewski
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group concludes in April\, with a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate Emerita. This month’s event features Jason O’Toole and John Pijewski. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nJason O’Toole is Poet Laureate Emeritus of North Andover\, MA. His collections include The Strange Misgivings of the Sadly Gifted (Dead Man’s Press\, 2025)\, and the chapbook Enragés (Between Shadows Press\, 2025). He serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club\, and as treasurer of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco. He is the winner of the 2025 Amy Lowell Prize and has been nominated for the Rhysling and the Pushcart Prize.  He was the co-founder of the Anne Bradstreet Prize and serves as judge for the Tom Nattell Peace Poetry Prize and the Capital District Slam Poetry Festival in NY.  Recent poems and prose have appeared in the anthology Love is for All of Us (Storey Publishing)\, as well as Ghost City Press\, The Somerville Times\, Phil Lit\, Molecule: a tiny lit mag\, and Deceleration News. \nJohn Pijewski was born in Boston\, Massachusetts\, in 1952. He graduated from Boston University\, the University of New Hampshire in Durham\, and attended Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. His book of poems\, Dinner with Uncle Jozef\, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1982. He received a writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1984. \nJohn taught Creative Writing as an adjunct professor for 35 years at Boston University\, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, and the University of Southern Maine in Portland.  His poems have been published in The Paris Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Tri-Quarterly\, Poetry Northwest\, The New Yorker\, and other journals. \nJohn describes the poems in his new book\, Collected Father\, as existing in the province between Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird\, in which an abandoned boy tries to survive on his own in the brutal peasant culture of Poland during WW II\, and Franz Kafka’s Letter to His Father.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-jason-otoole-john-pijewski/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T150000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T140000
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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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