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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTracy 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 Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress\, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown\, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. \nSmith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems\, which won the 2022 New England Book Award; Wade in the Water\, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Life on Mars\, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende\, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question\, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir\, Ordinary Light\, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei\, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize; and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside\, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Her memoir-manifesto\, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul\, was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year\, and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times is a nonfiction celebration of poetry as a source of courage and emotional fortitude amidst the many upheavals of the 21st Century. \nShe is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University\, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn case of inclement weather\, the reading will be moved indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-tracy-k-smith/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ Chesterwood\, with Patrick Donnelly and Cammy Thomas
DESCRIPTION: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. The event is free of charge and open to all. This month’s reading features NEPC members Patrick Donnelly and Cammy Thomas. \nPatrick Donnelly is the author of five books of poetry\, most recently Willow Hammer (Four Way Books\, 2025). Former poet laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, Donnelly is program director of The Frost Place\, a center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, The Georgia Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Ploughshares\, Slate\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Yale Review\, and many other journals. Donnelly’s translations with Stephen D. Miller of classical Japanese poetry were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award\, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award. More at: patrickdonnellypoetry.com \nCammy Thomas’s most recent work is Odysseus’ Daughter\, poems written in response to the Odyssey (Parkman Press chapbook\, 2023). Three previous poetry collections are published by Four Way Books. Cathedral of Wish received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Tremors received 2022 Poetry Honors from the Mass Book Awards. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete Inscriptions. Poems have recently appeared in Hampden-Sydney Review\, Smartish Pace\, Cider Press Review\, J Journal\, and The Baltimore Review. Her poem\, “Far Past War\,” was set to music by her sister\, composer Augusta Read Thomas\, and premiered with the Cathedral Choral Society in Washington DC in 2022. She wrote her PhD dissertation on the poetry of Alfred\, Lord Tennyson. She lives near Boston\, where she teaches literature to adults. www.cammythomas.com \nDaniel Chester French (1850-1931) was the famed sculptor of the Minute Man for Concord\, MA\, and the seated Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington\, DC.  Owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation\, Chesterwood is located in idyllic Stockbridge\, MA with multiple buildings set within 122 acres. The site includes French’s Studio\, the recently restored Colonial Revival Residence\, and the gardens and woodland walks that he designed.  \nThe Residence retains original antiques and decorative objects. French’s works are featured prominently throughout the property alongside paintings and sculptures by other prominent artists. For more information about a trip to Chesterwood\, visit https://www.chesterwood.org/.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-chesterwood-with-patrick-donnelly-and-cammy-thomas/
LOCATION:Chesterwood\, 4 Williamsville Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01262\, United States
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