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SUMMARY:NEPC @ the BPL: Anastasia Vassos\, Jean Flanagan\, Cindy Goncalves
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC returns to the Boston Public Library\, Jamaica Plain Branch\, to help kick off the holiday season! The reading\, on Saturday\, November 28 at 2:00 pm\, is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. The JP Branch\, at 30 South Street\, is an accessible venue. \nJean Flanagan is the author of three books of poetry:  Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press)\, Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books)\, and The Language of Two (Finishing Line Press).  Her fourth book\, A Hard Winter for Living (Červená Barva Press) is both prose and poetry. Flanagan is one of the founders of the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Poet Laureate of Emeritus of Arlington\, Massachusetts. \nBorn to immigrant parents and raised in the small town of Scituate\, Massachusetts\, Cindy Goncalves grew up with a deep\, uncomfortable sense that she didn’t quite belong. For years\, she followed the grain\, learning to fit into the world around her rather than question whether it fit her. Eventually\, she found comfort and confidence in being her fullest self—and discovered the power of her voice\, thoughts\, and words. \nToday\, Cindy is a holistic practitioner\, serial entrepreneur\, self-proclaimed “quantum poet\,” and published author of two books of poetry\, with a third in the works. Her writing explores the quantum space\, identity\, belonging\, healing\, resilience\, and the process of becoming who we were always meant to be: living a life in purpose\, on purpose. She is learning to use her words\, thoughts\, and emotions to create the kind of world her younger self needed—one where being different isn’t something to overcome\, but something to embrace. \nThe poems of Anastasia Vassos have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best New Poets. She is the author of Note to Self (2026)\, Nostos (2023)\, which was a finalist in Two Sylvias’ and Headlight Review’s Chapbook Contests\, and Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (2021). Her poems appear online as well as in print journals and anthologies; find her work in RHINO\, Whale Road Review\, Salamander\, Thrush\, Comstock Review\, and elsewhere. Her poem “Rough Marble” was awarded the 2026 Amy Lowell Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems about the Greek-American diaspora have been translated into Greek. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review\, speaks three languages\, and lives in Boston.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-bpl-anastasia-vassos-jean-flanagan-cindy-goncalves/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library (Jamaica Plain)\, 30 South Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual NEPC: Matthew Johnson\, Monica Ong\, Cindy Veach
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC rounds out our 2026 programs with a special Zoom presentation\, featuring Club members from North Carolina (Matthew Johnson) and Washington State (Cindy Veach)\, and the visual poetry of Monica Ong. \nMatthew Johnson is the author of multiple poetry collections\, including Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone: Baseball Poems of New York (Cornerstone Press). His poetry has appeared in Apple Valley Review\, Heavy Feather Review\, Langston Hughes Review\, London Magazine\, and elsewhere. A recipient of multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations\, support from the Emily Dickinson Museum and Hudson Valley Writers Center\, as well as a finalist for the Diverse Voices Book Award (Grand View University) and E.E. Cummings Poetry Award (New England Poetry Club)\, he’s the managing editor of Portrait of New England and the poetry editor of The Twin Bill. www.matthewjohnsonpoetry.com \nMonica Ong is a visual poet and the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press\, 2015). A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design\, Ong brings a designer’s eye to experimental writing with her hybrid image-poems and installations that surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. Her poetry can be found in Scientific American\, ctrl+v\, and Poetry Magazine\, and in the anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection (Fonograf Editions\, 2024). Ong’s most recent series of astronomy-inspired visual poetry was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and is the basis of her new book Planetaria (Proxima Vera\, 2025) with a foreword by John Yau. You can find her fine press visual poetry editions and literary art objects in over sixty distinguished institutional collections worldwide. In 2024\, Ong was named a United States Artists Fellow. \nCindy Veach is the author of three poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press)\, a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award; Her Kind (CavanKerry Press)\, an Eric Hoffer Award Montaigne Medal finalist; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press)\, a Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must Read.” Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, AGNI\, Kenyon Review\, North American Review\, Poet Lore\, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Washington Allen Prize\, Cindy serves as poetry editor for MER—Mom Egg Review. \nImportant: the reading is free\, but advance registration is required. To register\, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cpLlNHWdTt6xLHhRRNddqA. After you register\, you will receive an email with your personal Zoom link for the session. Please note that there will be no “one-size-fits-all” Zoom link for everyone. We look forward to seeing you online!
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