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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Mark Pawlak\, Mid Walsh\, Susan Eisenberg
DESCRIPTION:On October 4\, please join the New England Poetry Club in a return to the Menino Arts Center in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The reading begins at 2:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. \nThe Menino Arts Center\, located at 26 Central Avenue\, is an accessible venue\, with a wheelchair ramp into the building and an elevator to the second floor. We’re grateful to Home Scholars of Boston for their generous sponsorship. \nPoet\, visual artist\, and oral historian Susan Eisenberg was among the first women to be become a licensed union construction electrician. Her sixth poetry collection\, Fault Line (Broadstone\, 2026) explores how the political and moral landscape\, friendships\, and language itself have been altered by the catastrophic destruction in Palestine. Previous books include the nonfiction NYT Notable Book We’ll Call You If We Need You\, and the poetry books Stanley’s Girl\, Perpetual Care\, Blind Spot\, Pioneering\, and It’s a Good Thing I’m Not Macho. Her touring mixed media art installation\, On Equal Terms\, exhibited at the AFL-CIO in Washington DC. Honors include the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry\, the Joe Hill Award\, and the University of Michigan’s Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist fellowship. A Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University\, she is Poetry Editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History (Duke). \nMark Pawlak is the author of eleven poetry collections\, most recently Special Operation (Beltway Editions\, 2026)\, Away Away (Arrowsmith Press\, 2024)\, and the memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press\, 2021). His poems have been translated into Chinese\, German\, Japanese\, Polish\, and Spanish. His work has appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry\, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust\, For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines New American Writing\, Mother Jones\, Poetry South\, The Saint Ann’s Review\, and The World\, among many others. He taught mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Boston (1979-2016)\, where he and received the Chancellors Achievement Award. Since 1980\, he has been an editor of the Brooklyn-based literary press Hanging Loose. He lives in Cambridge. \nMid Walsh is a poet\, singer\, athlete\, husband\, and grandfather living near the ocean. His new collection\, Composting: Reflections on Tools\, Trees\, and Time\, was published by Kelsay Books in 2026. A graduate of Yale University with a degree in English and an MBA\, he has worked as a carpenter\, high-tech executive\, and yoga studio owner. His poetry transforms the details of suburban life — household chores\, time on the water\, the care of family and place — into the music of language. \nMid began writing poetry in high school\, encouraged by an English teacher with whom he still corresponds — now over a century old. After years devoted to raising his family\, he returned to writing at fifty and has met weekly with the same poetry workshop for more than twenty years. His poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review\, Nixes Mate\, The Road Not Taken\, Blue Unicorn\, Silkworm\, and other journals. For him\, writing\, personal growth\, and daily life are inseparable — a practice of discipline\, delight\, and renewal.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-mark-pawlak-mid-walsh-susan-eisenberg/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC 2026 Contest Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading\, featuring Winners and Finalists from our contests: \n\nSamuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence\nE.E. Cummings Prize\, for a compelling\, lyrical\, or experimental short poem\nAmy Lowell Prize\, for an outstanding poem of any length or style by a poet with strong ties to New England\nDiana Der-Hovanessian Prize\, for a translation from any language.\nJean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.\nSheila Margaret Motton Prize\, for full-length collections.\n\nThe reading will take place in two parts: the first beginning at 2:00 pm and the second at 3:30 pm. There will be an “intermission” break between the parts. \nSee the list of winners and finalists here. \nAdvance registration is required. After you register here\, you will receive a confirmation email with your personal session link\, which will work for both parts of the reading. Please note: there will be no “one-size-fits-all” Zoom link. \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-2026-contest-reading/
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Fruitlands: Kevin Gallagher\, Claire Conroy\, Eileen P. Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Claire Conroy (Beat Poet Laureate of Maine 2024-2026) has been called a “Protest Jazz Poet”\, “The ‘Contact’ Queen”\, “Emcee of Awesomeness” and “Soul Sister” of the Production Team for GonzoFest in NYC\, July of 2026. She served as a board member of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program (2021-2026) and hosted their HOOT Open Mic. Claire also hosts Beat Night in Biddeford\, Maine\, at Flourish. She has self-published two books (Listen\, 2018 and Silent\, 2022) and a chapbook (Rumors from Dead Lips\, 2024). Her third book\, Inlets\, was published by Keeping the Flame Alive Press in 2026. \nKevin Gallagher is a poet and publisher living in Greater Boston.  His latest book of poems is Diving at the Moon (Spuyten Duyvil)\, with translations by Wang Ping.  Previous books include And Yet it Moves and The Wild Goose. Gallagher edits spoke\, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. \nEileen P. Kennedy is the author of three collections of poetry. Banshees (Flutter Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Second Prize in Poetry from the Wordwrite Book Awards\, and Touch My Head Softly (Finishing Line Press\, 2021)\, which Literary Titan has described as “emotionally-charged poetry that explores life with observant poems that will appeal to anyone who loves inspired poetry.” Her latest book\, Dread and Splendor: Paintings and Poems for a New Earth\, (Shanti Arts Press\, 2026) was a finalist for the International Book Awards in General Poetry. She lives\, writes\, teaches\, and reads in Amherst\, MA. \nThe reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Gallery. The building is wheelchair-accessible. The reading is free; registration is requested. \nMake a day of it—arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the grounds. Deepen your visit by exploring Fruitlands’ historic spaces and collection. Learn more and purchase Museum admission here. Please note that Museum admission is not included with the reading.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-fruitlands-kevin-gallagher-claire-conroy-eileen-p-kennedy/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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