New England Poetry Club

NEPC Workshop (Members only)
2022-04-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-03-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-02-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-01-25 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-12-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-30 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Contact Hilary Sallick for more information.

Belmont Poets' Reading
2022-04-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Belmont Public Library, 336 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA, 02478
Featuring:
Stephanie Burt, Dough Holder, Wendy Drexler, A.M. Juster, Kevin Gallagher, Ruth Smullin, Harris Gardner, Richard Warring
In the Assembly Room

New Poetry & Open Mic with Barbara Boches, Naomi Myrvaagnes, David Wyman[VIRTUAL]
2022-04-10 15:00 - 17:00
Apr 10, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Barbara Boches’ poems have been published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Poet Lore, Solstice, SWWIM, upstreet, and other literary magazines. Which Will Change the Other More? (Finishing Line Press) is her first chapbook. Her work has received prizes and appeared in a word/image museum exhibition. She resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband, Edward.
Book Purchasing
Which Will Change the Other More? Is available on Amazon at:

Naomi Myrvaagnes earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy (analytic school), and her poetry and fiction are shaded by that filter. She has published, sparingly, in periodicals ranging from the Christian Science Monitor to Onthebus. Her first published story, in the Harvard Review, received a Pushcart Special Mention. In writing, Naomi strives to both represent and comment on the world we inhabit.
To order Chamber of Wonders, Naomi’s collection, go to https://naomimyrvaagnes.com/chamber-of-wonders/. Do stop by to visit the website.
David Wyman’s second poetry collection, Violet Ideologies, was published in 2020 by Kelsay Books. His first book Proletariat Sunrise, also published by Kelsay Books, came out in 2017. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BlazeVOX, Dissident Voice, Zombie Logic Review, Clockwise Cat, The Voices Project, Squawk Back, Tuck Magazine, The Aurorean, among other publications.
Link to the author’s page on Amazon

New Poetry & Open Mic with Kevin Gallagher, Gail Mazur, Lynne Schmidt [VIRTUAL]
2022-03-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
When: Mar 13, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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New Poetry & Open Mic with Danielle Legros Georges, Jennifer Markell, Lloyd Schwartz [VIRTUAL]
2022-02-13 15:00 - 17:00
When: Feb 13, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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New Poetry & Open Mic with Thomas DeFreitas, Dorothy Derifield, and Moira Linehan
2022-01-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Thomas DeFreitas [de-FRAY-tus] was born in Boston. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, and attended the University of Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in Dappled Things, Ibbetson Street, Pensive, Soul-Lit, and elsewhere. In the summer of 2019, his sonnet “Detox” was chosen as an Award Poem by the editors of Plainsongs. Thomas’s first chapbook, Winter in Halifax, was published in October 2021 by Kelsay Books. It can be purchased here: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/winter-in-halifax
Dorothy Derifield is the co-director of the literary reading series Chapter and Verse in Jamaica Plain and is a member of the committee that directs the Rozzie Reads poetry reading series in Roslindale. She is the author of the book Zero Plus Time (Cherry Grove, 2020) and a chapbook, The River and the Lakes. She won an Editor’s Award from Plainsongs and has appeared in the Radcliffe Quarterly. She is a member of the Jamaica Pond Poets and lives in Roslindale.
Zero Plus Time can be purchased on Dorothy’s website.
Moira Linehan is the author of four collections of poetry. Her first two, If No Moon (2007) and Incarnate Grace (2015), were published by Southern Illinois University Press. In 2020 Slant Books brought out Toward and Dos Madres Press published & Company. She lives in Reading, MA.
To purchase any of Moira Linehan’s books, go to her website at www.moiralinehan.com
To Join the Event
When: Jan 9, 2022 03:00 PM ET. You must register in advance for this meeting:
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New Poetry & Open Mic with Denise Bergman, Kyle Potvin, Cammy Thomas [VIRTUAL]
2021-12-12 15:00 - 17:00
When: Dec 12, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Sign up for the OPEN MIC using the chat box (one poem no longer than a page in length)
Denise Bergman is the author of five books: The Shape of the Keyhole (2021), Three Hands None, A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea, The Telling, and Seeing Annie Sullivan, all book-length poems. She edited City River of Voices, an anthology of urban poetry. A stanza of one of her poems is permanently installed a park in Cambridge, Mass.
The Shape of the Keyhole

Kyle Potvin’s debut full-length poetry collection is Loosen (Hobblebush Books, 2021). Her chapbook, Sound Travels on Water, won New England Poetry Club’s Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Rattle, Ecotone, and The New York Times. Kyle lives in New Hampshire.
Loosen is available at: https://www.hobblebush.com/product-page/loosen
Cammy Thomas’ first book, Cathedral of Wish, received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete her second book, Inscriptions. Her third collection, Tremors, has just come out and is available at Four Way Books: https://fourwaybooks.com/site/tremors/

POET IN THE HOUSE a workshop on Docupoetics with Kevin Gallagher
2021-12-06 19:00 - 21:00
POET IN THE HOUSE
December 6, 2021, 7 pm, with Kevin Gallagher presenting on Docupoetics
Session Description: There are a growing number of poetry books ‘set’ in another time, and are often referred to as ‘docupoetics.’ There are many varieties of docupoetics that can be traced to ancient times. Famous 20th century books that are now being called antecedents of the current wave of docupoetics include Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, Patersonby William Carlos Williams, Testimony by Charles Reznikoff, Octavio Paz’s Sunstone, and many others. In this century two classics are Kevin Young’s Ardency and Whereas by Layli Long Soldier. This PITH with will be a reading, discussion, and workshop on poetry of this genre. Participants should bring a poem from one of these books or one of your choosing for reading, discussion and writing.
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Kevin Gallagher is a poet, publisher, and political economists living in Belmont. Two of his recent books are And Yet it Moves and LOOM, (MadHat Press) both of which would be considered docupoetics. He is the publisher and editor of spoKe, a Boston area annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University.
