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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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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Wyn Cooper\, Brian Mosher\, Jhonny Victor
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, continues on Sunday\, July 19. 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/. \nWyn Cooper has published six books of poetry\, including\, most recently\, The Unraveling. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, as well as in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry\, including A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker. Many of his poems have been turned into songs\, including by recording artists Sheryl Crow\, David Broza\, and Madison Smartt Bell. He is a former editor of Quarterly West\, and the recipient of a fellowship from the Ucross Foundation. For two years he worked at the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute\, a think tank run by the Poetry Foundation\, and he has taught at Bennington and Marlboro Colleges. His first novel\, Way Out West\, was published in 2022. He lives in Vermont and works as a freelance editor. www.wyncooper.com \nBrian Mosher resides in Mansfield\, MA. His work has appeared in Blood and Bourbon\, Lily Poetry Review\, Literary Underground\, Nixes Mate\, Anomaly Poetry\, eMerge\, Esoterica\, and others. He received Honorable Mention in the Joe Gouviea Outermost Poetry Contest\, and his short story “Fragments” was a winner of the Nikki Hanna Literary Challenge. His most recent books are the collection\, A Muster of Melodious Musings (2025 Metaphysical Fox Press)\, Double Vision\, a collaboration with artist Becky Haletky (2026)\, and the chapbook Relict (2026 Finishing Line Press). His website is Phlubbermatic: (www.phlubbermatic.blogspot.com). \nJhonny Victor graduated from the State University of Haiti‘s School of Law in Port-au-Prince. He studied networking management at Devry College of New York and has been working as cable technician and electrician for more than a decade in New York City. He has published two collections of poems: The Working-Class and Its Burden\, written and published while on a five-year strike as a union member\, and Woman\, The Thrill of Survival. In addition to being a poet\, Jhonny is a songwriter\, singer\, guitarist\, essayist and public speaker. All of his creative work emphasizes fairness\, equality for all\, self-awareness and humanity.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-wyn-cooper-brian-mosher-jhonny-victor/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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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 Schnabel and Joseph Szigeti Play Mozaart 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 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 was the Poet Laureate of the City of Somerville from 2019 to 2021.
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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