Celebrating Amy Lowell: Garden Poetry from a Poet Gardener
Somerville Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 Come to the Somerville Growing Center to gather, listen, and celebrate the garden poetry of Amy Lowell. This special event will focus on poetry by and in connection to Amy Lowell, with readings from Jennifer Clarvoe, Lloyd Schwartz, and Denise Provost. Conversation and an open mic ... Read more
James Baldwin: One Hundred Years
The Little Crêpe Café 102 Oxford Street, CambridgePlease join Cambridge Arts, the Little Crêpe Café, and the New England Poetry Club for a celebration of the life and work of James Baldwin, on the occasion of his centennial! Free of charge and open to all: please come to read excerpts from Baldwin's work and share your thoughts. Hosts: Denise Provost and Jean ... Read more
Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
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. Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press. She is an award-winning author of six poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have been ... Read more
Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsWriter/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s (she/her) recent books are Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, and the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, co-created with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield and winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, co-created with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman. Her poems have appeared in The Slowdown, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, ... Read more
FAWC + NEPC: New England Poetry Club at the Fine Arts Work Center
Fine Arts Work Center 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA, United StatesThe NEPC teams up with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown to present Cynthia Bargar, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Christine Jones. The reading will take place in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, 24 Pearl Street., Provincetown, Mass. 02657. A Q&A session will follow. Cynthia Bargar is the author of Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room ... Read more
Longfellow Summer Festival: Poetry in Translation with Kymm Coveney and J. Kates
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsKymm Coveney was born in Boston, raised in Scituate, and has lived in Spain since the 1982 World Cup. The pandemic caught this free-lance writer and translator sheltering in Jamaica Plain, where she now spends the summer months, far from Barcelona's heat. History of Milk, Kymm's translation of award-winning novelist Mónica Ojeda's poetry collection, will be published ... Read more
Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Jane Attanucci, Charlot Lucien, Lawrence Kessenich
Magazine Beach Park Nature Center 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPlease join the NEPC as we continue our summer at Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge! The event is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Jane Attanucci grew up as one of eight children in an Irish Catholic family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Boston to attend college and ... Read more
Poetry at the Manse: Mary Bonina, Patty Crane, Thomas Olivieri
Old Manse 269 Monument St, Concord, MAPlease join us at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., for our first 2024-25 season events hosted by The Trustees! Mary Bonina was finalist for the Goldfarb Fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and awarded several residencies, including at the VCCA retreat, Moulin a Nef, in Auvillar, France. Her newly released poetry collection, ... Read more
Longfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts(Please note: this event was originally scheduled for July 14, 2024.) Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. She is the ... Read more
Online: 2024 Contests Reading
Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading, featuring: Poems from winners of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize contests; Winning and honorable-mention poems from our single-poem contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence E.E. Cummings Prize, for a compelling, lyrical, or experimental short poem ... Read more