Poetry Reading: Magdalena Gómez and Enzo Silon Surin
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsMagdalena Gómez is the Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA and a Poetry Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry collection, Shameless Woman, (Red Sugarcane Press, NYC) is studied in Latinx curricula throughout the U.S. Her ground-breaking memoir noir, M’ija, will be released in hardcover in spring of 2022 by Heliotrope Books, NYC. Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning ... Read more
Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsMartha Collins has published ten volumes of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed, 2013, with the author), and edited a number of anthologies. Her ... Read more
Golden Rose Poetry Award: Patricia Smith
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsPatricia Smith is the winner of the 2022 Golden Rose, one of America’s oldest literary prizes. Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Her ... Read more
Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Elizabeth McKim and Askia Touré
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsThe Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and beyond. Elizabeth Gordon McKim is a poet, teacher, and spoken word artist, whose roots are embedded in the oral tradition of song, story and ... Read more
Poetry Reading: Chen Chen and Natalie Shapero
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsChen Chen’s second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is out from BOA Editions this September. His first book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award. A 2022 United States Artists Fellow, ... Read more
NEPC September Reading at the Old Manse
Old Manse 269 Monument St, Concord, MAJoin the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on Sunday afternoons this September and October. September Poets Marcia Karp, Alan Smith Soto, Dr. Parmit Singh Q&A to follow the reading About the Poets In addition to her If by Song (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2021; NEPC ... Read more
September Workshop (Members Only)
OnlineThe NEPC workshop will meet on the third Monday of the month, September-May, from 7-9 pm on Zoom. Current NEPC members are welcome to participate. Please contact Mary Buchinger if you'd like to take part or to learn more.
NEPC Prize Winner Reading
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NEPC October Reading at the Old Manse
Old Manse 269 Monument St, Concord, MAJoin the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on Sunday afternoons this September and October. October Poets Mark Pawlak, LR Berger, Aidan Rooney Open Mic after the readings & we encourage people to bring selections by Levertov to read. About the Poets Mark Pawlak’s book-length ... Read more
October Workshop (Members Only)
OnlineThe NEPC workshop will meet on the third Monday of the month, September-May, from 7-9 pm on Zoom. Current NEPC members are welcome to participate. Please contact Mary Buchinger if you'd like to take part or to learn more.