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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Regie Gibson & Lloyd Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon with Regie Gibson\, Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate\, and Lloyd Schwartz\, the 2026 recipient of the NEPC Sam Cornish Award. \nThis 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. \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. \nRegie Gibson is Massachusetts’s first Poet Laureate\, appointed in 2025. He is an accomplished poet\, songwriter\, author\, workshop facilitator\, and educator who currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Pedagogy at the Arts for Social Change. He is also an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music\, where he teaches courses on performance and spoken word poetry\, and an Instructor at Clark University in Worcester\, where he teaches the introduction to poetry. His poems for public occasions engage complex historical and social issues\, inviting audiences into the dialogue with hope and often humor. He is intentional about using poetry to create common ground and foster social cohesion. \nRegie is a former National Poetry Slam Individual Champion\, was selected one of Chicago Tribune’s Artist of the Year for Excellence for his poetry.  He has co-judge the Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Competition  with Marc Smith and Mark Strand\, has been regularly featured on N. P. R. and has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. \nRegie has toured with the Chicago Mask Ensemble\, performing dramatic and poetic adaptations of common myths from around the world. He founded the LiteraryMusic Ensemble Neon JuJu: a literary and musical arts ensemble utilizing classic\, contemporary and original literary text combined with Middle Eastern\, Contemporary American and European classic music. \nRegie is widely published in anthologies\, magazines and journals such as The Iowa Review\, Harvard Divinity Magazine\, Poetry Magazine\, Spoken Word Revolution (Source Books)\, The Good Men Project and several others. His full-length book of poetry Storms Beneath The Skin (EM Press) was published in 2001 and received the Golden Pen Award. In 2005 Regie was a featured on the PBS Arts magazine- Art Close-Up and was subsequently nominated for a Boston Grammy. Regie has received his MFA in Poetry from New England College\, and continues to facilitate creative writing workshops\, performances\, and otherwise augmenting literary curricula for high schools and colleges across the United States. \nLloyd Schwartz (Sam Cornish Award winner) is a poet and scholar. In his poems\, Schwartz often uses a conversational frame to explore intimate and familial relationships. His collections of poetry include Artur Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozart at the Frick Collection (April 4\, 1948) and other poems (Arrowsmith Press 2026)\, Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (2021)\, Little Kisses (2017)\, Cairo Traffic (2000)\, Goodnight\, Gracie (1992)\, and These People (1981). His poetry has also been featured in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1991\, 1994\, 2019)\, The Best of the Best American Poetry (2013)\, and Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009). Schwartz is the editor of Prose: Elizabeth Bishop (2011) and coeditor of Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (1983) and of the Library of America’s Elizabeth Bishop: Poems\, Prose\, and Letters (2008). \nSchwartz also served as the classical music editor of the Boston Phoenix. Three-time winner of the American Society of Composers\, Authors\, and Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Awards\, he has received a Professional Music Fraternity’s Radio and Television Award as well as support from the Amphion Foundation. Music In—and On—the Air (2013) offers a selection of his classical music criticism for the National Public Radio program Fresh Air. \nSchwartz’s poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize. Additional honors include a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism\, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Somerville Arts Council\, an Associates of the Boston Public Library Literary Lights Award\, and a 2019 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. Schwartz has served on the executive board of PEN New England and is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Boston\, where he has served as director of the creative writing program. He lives in Somerville\, Massachusetts\, where he is the Poet Laureate of the City of Somerville.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-regie-gibson-lloyd-schwartz/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Major Jackson & Kirun Kapur
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMajor Jackson is the author of six books of poetry\, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (Blue Flower Arts\, 2023)\, The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton & Company\, 2020)\, Roll Deep (W.W. Norton & Company\, 2015)\, Holding Company (W.W. Norton & Company\, 2010)\, Hoops (W.W. Norton & Company\, 2006)\, and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press\, 2002)\, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. Jackson’s edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner)\, Renga for Obama (Harvard Review Monographs\, 2017)\, and the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems (2013). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson\, edited by Amor Kohli (University of Michigan Press\, 2022). \nA recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, Major Jackson was awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Award and received honors from the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review\, The New Yorker\, Orion magazine\, the Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry magazine\, Poetry London\, and ZYZZYVA. \nMajor Jackson lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He hosts The Slowdown podcast\, a partnership between the Poetry Foundation and American Public Media\, and is poetry editor of the Harvard Review. \nKirun Kapur‘s first collection\, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist\, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize. Her newest book\, Women in the Waiting Room\, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.  Kapur was awarded the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry\, the Nazim Hikmet Prize\, and the Glenna Luschei Award\, as well as fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Vermont Studio Center\, and MacDowell Colony. She serves as the editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal\, and teaches at Amherst College\, where she is the director of the Creative Writing Program. \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-major-jackson-kirun-kapur/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ Chesterwood\, with Tim Mayo and Pamela Wax
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 second of two NEPC events included in the 2026 ArtsAlive! series\, held in Daniel Chester French’s studio. This month’s reading features NEPC members Tim Mayo and Pamela Wax. \nAdmission (including refreshments): $10\, National Trust for Historic Preservation members / $15 non-members. \nTim Mayo is the author of two previous full-length poetry collections\, The Kingdom of Possibilities (2009)\, and Thesaurus of Separation (2016) and two chapbooks\, The Loneliness of Dogs (2008) and Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper (2019). He holds an ALB\, cum laude\, from Harvard University and an MFA from Bennington College. A ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a two-time finalist for the Paumanok Award\, Mayo is also the recipient of three Vermont Writers Fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center\, as well as being a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Montaigne Medal. He lives in Brattleboro\, VT\, where he has worked for fifteen years at the Brattleboro Retreat\, a mental institution\, as both a teacher and a mental health worker\, and where he is also a founding member and organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. \nPamela Wax is the author of the poetry collections Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag\, 2022)\, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press\, 2023)\, and Every Single Beast of My Heart (Sheila-Na-Gig\, 2026). Her poems\, appearing in over 60 publications\, have received several awards and three Best of the Net nominations. In addition to being a poet\, Pam is also an ordained rabbi and a sought-after teacher. After working as a congregational rabbi\, a hospital chaplain\, as assistant director for adult education for the Reform movement nationally\, and for 19 years as staff rabbi at a social service agency\, she currently serves as director of adult education and programming at a synagogue in Pittsfield. She lives in North Adams with her husband\, her resident groundhog\, and the garden that no longer is. \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/.
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LOCATION:Chesterwood\, 4 Williamsville Road\, Stockbridge\, MA\, 01262\, United States
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Golden Rose Award with Marie Howe
DESCRIPTION: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 People\, an NEPC collaboration with the  Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters. \nMarie Howe is the author of New and Selected Poems\, (W.W. Norton 2024)\, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize. From 2012-2014\, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet-in-residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine\, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nMarie Howe’s The Good Thief (1988) was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood\, who praised Howe’s “poems of obsession that transcend their own dark roots.” In that collection\, Howe’s oracular yet self-doubting speakers often voice their concerns through Biblical and mythical allusions. Kunitz\, on selecting the book for the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets\, observed\, “Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” \nHowe has taught at Sarah Lawrence College\, Columbia University\, and NYU. She coedited (with Michael Klein) the essay anthology In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). She has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was the Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Howe lives in New York City. \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-golden-rose-award-with-marie-howe/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Peter Payack\, Michael Todd Steffen\, Jessica Lucci
DESCRIPTION: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! \nPeter Payack was the first Poet Populist of Cambridge\, Massachusetts (2007-2009). His innovation\, Phone-a-Poem\, the Cambridge/Boston Poetry Hotline (1976-2001)\, along with his work and realia\, is archived at Harvard’s Lamont Library. \nPayack’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Times\, The Cornell Review\, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine\, etc. He has published over 1\,500 poems\, stories\, prose poems\, and photos. His poem\, “The Migration of Darkness”\, won the 1980 Rhysling Award. Quirk Books named it the number one poem that unites science and art. His work has been extensively anthologized\, including Knowing & Writing\, New Perspectives on Classical Questions (Harper Collins)\, The Paris Review Anthology (Norton)\, Asimov’s Wonders of the World (Dial)\, and Envisioning Other Worlds (Cornelsen\, Berlin). \nPayack is the inventor of The Stonehenge Watch™\, a replica of Stonehenge inside an old-fashioned pocket watch case\, which can be used as a shadow clock to tell time\, mark the seasons\, and predict eclipses. The Stonehenge Watch™ premiered at The First International Sky Art Conference at MIT. \nAs a Sky Artist\, Payack has been commissioned to do STAR-POEMS! for The New York Avant Garde Festival\, The International Sky Art Conference (Cambridge\, MA\, Delphi\, Greece)\, The Harvard 350 Celebration\, and Boston’s First Night. \nPayack was awarded the 2010 Haskall Award for Distinguished Teaching at The University of Massachusetts Lowell. \nMichael Todd Steffen lives in Somerville\, Massachusetts. He helps coordinate The Hastings Room Reading Series\, and frequently publishes articles about new and established poets on the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene website. His poems have appeared in journals\, including The Boston Globe\, The Dark Horse\, Everse Radio\, The Exacting Clam\, North of Oxford\, Ibbetson Street and spoKe. Boris Dralyuk (managing editor for Nimrod Journal) writes\, “I have read [Steffen’s] poems with enormous satisfaction. His lines are supple and wear their unmistakable wisdom lightly.” Calling his second book\, On Earth As It Is\, “important work\,” Joan Houlihan noted Steffen’s “intimate portraits\, sense of history\, surprising wit and the play of dark and light…the striking combination of the everyday and the transcendent.” Mike’s third collection\, I Saw My Life\, is just out from Lily Poetry Review Books. \nJessica Lucci is a poet and steampunk author who writes about modern issues while maintaining historic integrity.  You can find her poetry collections\, How Can I Steal a Purse and Graveyard Shift\, at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop.  Her literacy program\, “Watch City Readers\,” has been awarded grants for five years in a row from the Mass Cultural Council and Waltham Cultural Council.  She loves little adventures\, as long as she has a notebook.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-magazine-beach-park-peter-payack-michael-todd-steffen-jessica-lucci/
LOCATION:Magazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Jean L. Kreiling\, Liane St. Laurent\, Merryn Rutledge
DESCRIPTION:[August 23\, 2:00-3:00 pm] \nThe 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. \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/. \nJean L. Kreiling is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Home and Away; her fifth will be published later this year. Her work has been awarded the Frost Farm Prize\, the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Prize\, the Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Prize\, and three New England Poetry Club prizes\, among other honors. A Professor Emeritus of Music at Bridgewater State University\, she has published articles on the intersections between music and literature in numerous academic journals. She currently serves as an Associate Poetry Editor for Able Muse Review\, and she lives on the coast of Massachusetts. \nLiane St. Laurent has worn many hats: horse-drawn carriage driver\, apple picker\, English teacher\, She is now a retired IT professional. Her poetry appears in The Banyan Review\, Emerge Literary Journal\, Roi Fainéant Press\, Yellow Arrow Journal\, Touchstone\, Soundings East\, and Smoky Quartz\, among others. Her debut chapbook is un/winter (Bee Monk Press\, 2025.) Liane lives in NH with her husband\, two dogs\, and an array of woodland creatures. \nWinner of Orison Books’ 2023 Best Spiritual Literature poem prize and a Naugatuck River Review 2024 Best Narrative Poem finalist\, Merryn Rutledge is the author of the collections Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed and To Carve a Path Through Thickets (Kelsay Books). She also teaches poetry craft\, reviews new poetry books\, sings\, and dances.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-jean-l-kreiling-liane-st-laurent-merryn-rutledge/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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