BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New England Poetry Club - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:New England Poetry Club X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nepoetryclub.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New England Poetry Club REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220710T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220710T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20220426T192326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T154413Z UID:5272-1657465200-1657468800@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev DESCRIPTION:Martha 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 newest book of poems\, Casualty Reports\, is forthcoming in fall 2022. \nPhilip Nikolayev is a Russo-American bilingual poet living in Boston. He is a polyglot and translates poetry from several languages. Nikolayev’s verse collections include Monkey Time (Verse/Wave Books\, winner of the 2001 Verse Prize) and Letters from Aldenderry (Salt). He co-edits Fulcrum\, a serial anthology of poetry and critical writing. His bilingual edition\, The Star of Dazzling Ecstasy: 79 Poems by Alexander Pushkin\, Translated by Philip Nikolayev has been published by Tiptop Street. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-martha-collins-and-philip-nikolayev/ LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/July-10.png ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220612T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20220426T190658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T154327Z UID:5264-1655046000-1655049600@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Magdalena Gómez and Enzo Silon Surin DESCRIPTION:Magdalena 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. \nEnzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet\, educator\, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of three collections of poetry\, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020) and A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto (2017). He is Founding Editor and Publisher at Central Square Press and President/Executive Director at the Faraday Publishing Company\, Inc. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-magdalena-gomez-and-enzo-silon-surin/ LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/June-12.png ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220605T160000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20220319T155553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T154133Z UID:5196-1654441200-1654444800@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:Student Poetry Award Reading DESCRIPTION:Winners of the Longfellow Poetry contests (grades 3-8)\, the NEPC High School Poetry contests (grades 9-12)\, and the Victor Howes Award will read their work on the lawn of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/student-poetry-award-reading/ LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/winner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20210818T195125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T024334Z UID:4306-1652022000-1652029200@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Kali Lightfoot\, Gloria Mindock\, Lynne Viti [VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:May 8\, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nRegister here in advance for this meeting. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-with-kali-lightfoot-gloria-mindock-lynne-viti-virtual/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T155439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T155439Z UID:4389-1650999600-1651006800@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-7/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220411T193000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20220401T183248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220401T183300Z UID:5215-1649701800-1649705400@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:Belmont Poets' Reading DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nStephanie Burt\, Dough Holder\, Wendy Drexler\, A.M. Juster\, Kevin Gallagher\, Ruth Smullin\, Harris Gardner\, Richard Warring \nIn the Assembly Room URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/belmont-poets-reading/ LOCATION:Belmont Public Library\, 336 Concord Ave\, Belmont\, MA\, 02478 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Wendy-Drexler-Poetry-Reading-e1648837944817.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20210818T195753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T123419Z UID:4312-1649602800-1649610000@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Barbara Boches\, Naomi Myrvaagnes\, David Wyman[VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:Apr 10\, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nREGISTER HERE IN ADVANCE for this meeting: \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nBarbara 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.\nBook Purchasing\nWhich Will Change the Other More? Is available on Amazon at: \n \nNaomi 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.\nTo order Chamber of Wonders\, Naomi’s collection\, go to https://naomimyrvaagnes.com/chamber-of-wonders/. Do stop by to visit the website. \nDavid 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. \nLink to the author’s page on Amazon URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-with-barbara-boches-naomi-myrvaagnes-david-wymanvirtual/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T155334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T155334Z UID:4387-1648580400-1648587600@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-6/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20210818T195640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T024657Z UID:4310-1647183600-1647190800@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Kevin Gallagher\, Gail Mazur\, Lynne Schmidt [VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:When: Mar 13\, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nRegister here in advance for this meeting: \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-keith-gallagher-gail-mazur-lynne-schmidt-virtual/ LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220222T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T155244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T155244Z UID:4385-1645556400-1645563600@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-5/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20210818T194803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220212T224427Z UID:4300-1644764400-1644771600@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Danielle Legros Georges\, Jennifer Markell\, Lloyd Schwartz [VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:When: Feb 13\, 2022 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nRegister HERE in advance for this meeting. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-with-danielle-legros-georges-jennifer-markell-lloyd-schwartz-virtual/ LOCATION:Massachusetts CATEGORIES:New Poetry & Open Mic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220125T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T155155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T155155Z UID:4383-1643137200-1643144400@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-4/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220109T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211216T162500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T191709Z UID:4978-1641740400-1641747600@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Thomas DeFreitas\, Dorothy Derifield\, and Moira Linehan DESCRIPTION: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 \nDorothy 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. \nZero Plus Time can be purchased on Dorothy’s website. \nMoira 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. \nTo purchase any of Moira Linehan’s books\, go to her website at www.moiralinehan.com \nTo Join the Event\nWhen: Jan 9\, 2022 03:00 PM ET. You must register in advance for this meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIld-yprTouH9NzKKk4yXu5b7DojNkmxyPe \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-with-thomas-defreitas-dorothy-derifield-and-moira-linehan/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/nepc-new-poetry-logo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211221T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T155008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T155008Z UID:4381-1640113200-1640120400@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-3/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T170000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20210818T194611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T182222Z UID:4298-1639321200-1639328400@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:New Poetry & Open Mic with Denise Bergman\, Kyle Potvin\, Cammy Thomas [VIRTUAL] DESCRIPTION:When: Dec 12\, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nSign up for the OPEN MIC using the chat box (one poem no longer than a page in length) \nDenise 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. \nThe Shape of the Keyhole \n \nKyle 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.\nLoosen is available at: https://www.hobblebush.com/product-page/loosen \nCammy 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/ URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/new-poetry-open-mic-with-denise-bergman-kyle-potvin-cammy-thomas-virtual/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211122T020723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211122T022335Z UID:4625-1638817200-1638824400@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:POET IN THE HOUSE a workshop on Docupoetics with Kevin Gallagher DESCRIPTION:POET IN THE HOUSE \nDecember 6\, 2021\, 7 pm\, with Kevin Gallagher presenting on Docupoetics \nSession 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. \nPlease register for this event in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nKevin 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. \n  URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poet-in-the-house-a-workshop-on-docupoetics-with-kevin-gallagher/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260509T191423 CREATED:20211009T154856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211009T154856Z UID:4379-1638298800-1638306000@nepoetryclub.org SUMMARY:NEPC Workshop (Members only) DESCRIPTION:Contact Hilary Sallick for more information. URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-workshop-members-only-2/ LOCATION:Massachusetts END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR