New England Poetry Club

Poetry in Translation: Dzvinia Orlowsky & Nidia Hernandez
2023-07-09 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart prize poet, an award-winning translator, and a founding editor of Four Way Books. She’s published six poetry collections by Carnegie Mellon University Press including A Handful of Bees, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, and Bad Harvest, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna” was selected by former national poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a 2019 winner of the New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize. Her award-winning co-translations with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s poems, Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, was published by Lost Horse Press in 2021. She is Writer-in-Residence at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Nidia Hernández was born in Venezuela, and has been living in the US since 2018. She is a poet and translator of Portuguese poetry, editor, broadcaster, poetry curator, and radio producer. Nidia directs the editorial project lamajadesnuda.com, which won the 2011 WSA prize for Cultural Heritage. She curates Poesiaudio Arrowsmith Press Sundara Ramaswamy Prize 2021, for her assemblage of The Land of Mild Light, selected poems of Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas. She edited in 2022 The Invisible Borders of Time; Five Female Latin American Poets, and is a contributor for Mercurius Magazine. She has presented works drawn from the 34 years of her radio program (also called La maja desnuda) which has more than 1,768 broadcasts. Currently, she is broadcasting the program through UPV Radio 102.5 FM in Valencia, Spain. In 2023 she was invited to serve on the board of the New England Poetry Club.

Poetry Reading: Sam Cornish Award with Harris Gardner & Ruth Lepson
2023-06-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
The 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.
Harris Gardner has been the Poetry Editor of Ibbetson Street since 2010. He has authored four poetry collections: Chalice of Eros, co-authored with Lainie Senechal; Lest They Become; Among Us; and No Time for Death. His numerous publication credits include The Harvard Review, A Poet’s Siddur, Midstream, Cool Plums, Rosebud, Fulcrum, and many others. He co-founded, with Lainie Senechal, Tapestry of Voices and the Boston National Poetry Month Festival; he also co-founded, with Doug Holder, Breaking Bagels with the Bards. Gardner was Poet-in-Residence at Endicott College from 2002-2005. He founded and hosted many poetry venues over the past 22 years, including Boston Borders, Poetry in The Chapel Series (Forest Hills Cemetery), and Mad Poets Café (Pawtucket, RI). In 2015, Gardner received a Life Time Achievement Award from Ibbetson Street Press and a Citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He is currently a member of the Academy of American Poets.
Ruth Lepson recently retired after 25 years from the New England Conservatory of Music, and is now poet-in-residence emerita. Her books are Dreaming in Color, Morphology and I Went Looking for You, ask anyone, and on the way: new and selected poems. Her anthology, Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, was published by the University of Illinois Press. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals, such as Let the Bucket Down, Ploughshares, Agni, Ping Pong, Ecopoetics, spoKe, and The Brooklyn Rail, and New American Poetry and other anthologies. Lepson has taught at Boston College, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, The Kennedy School, Bentley College, Northeastern, and other Boston-area colleges. Lepson is most proud of volunteering for Oxfam America for 14 years, for which she set up poetry readings to raise money for famine relief. She has collaborated with musicians in all sorts of ways and performed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Boston. She lives in Cambridge.

Longfellow Student Poetry Awards
2023-06-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
Kick off the summer with a celebration of emerging poets! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. Students will read their winning poems at this ceremony, followed by a celebration on the lawn.
The ceremony concludes with the presentation of the Victor Howes Prize to Mary Gracie Meijer, an undergraduate student at Boston College studying English and Medical Humanities.
The contest aims to encourage and celebrate young poets in exploring their craft, and is co-sponsored by the Frank Buda Memorial Fund, New England Poetry Club, Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, and National Park Service.

Poetry at the Old Manse - May
2023-05-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Old Manse, 269 Monument St, Concord, MA, 01742
Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons.
Extend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River or bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds. Register here.
May Poets:
DeWitt Henry’s most recent books are FOUNDLINGS: FOUND POEMS FROM PROSE, (Gazebo Books/Life Before Man, 2022) and RESTLESS FOR WORDS: POEMS (Finishing Line Press, 2023). His memoir, ENDINGS & BEGINNINGS: FAMILY ESSAYS (Mad Hat Press), was long listed for the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay, 2022. TRIM RECKONINGS: POEMS will be published by Pierian Springs Press in fall 2023. He was the founding editor of Ploughshares and is Prof. Emeritus at Emerson College. Details at www.dewitthenry.com.
Elizabeth Sylvia lives with her family in southeastern Massachusetts, where she teaches English. Her first book None But Witches (2022), poems inspired by Shakespeare’s female characters, was the winner of the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. Sylvia’s work is upcoming or has recently appeared in Verse Daily, Carve, Cherry Tree, Lily Poetry Review, On the Seawall, The Southern Review, and SWWIM, among others. She has been a semi- or finalist in competitions sponsored by DIAGRAM, 30 West, and Wolfson Press; has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes; and is a reader for SWWIM Every Day.
Pamela Wax, an ordained rabbi, is the author of Walking the Labyrinth (Main Street Rag, 2022) and the forthcoming chapbook, Starter Mothers (Finishing Line Press). Her poems have received a Best of the Net nomination and awards from Crosswinds, Paterson Literary Review, Poets’ Billow, Oberon, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. She has been published in literary journals including Barrow Street, Tupelo Quarterly, About Place Journal, Mudfish, Connecticut River Review, Naugatuck River Review, Pedestal, Split Rock Review, Sixfold, and Passengers Journal. She offers spirituality and poetry workshops online from her home in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts.

The Loom Poetry: Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky
2023-04-30 16:30 - 18:30 | The Brick Church, 13 Canal Street, Harrisville, NH, United States
Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky will read in person on Sunday, April 30 at 4:30 EDT as part of The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville reading series at the Brick Church, 13 Canal Street, Harrisville NH.

CANCELLED: Poetry at the Old Manse - April
2023-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Old Manse, 269 Monument St, Concord, MA, 01742
Due to inclement weather, this reading has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled at some point in the future.

New England Poetry Club at 3rd Space
2023-04-18 18:00 - 21:00 | MA
A FREE evening of poetry readings and music at 3rd Space!
Presented by The New England Poetry Club, local poets Toni Bee, Charles Coe, and David Miller will perform readings. There will also be a performance from folk duo Crowes Pasture.
Complimentary refreshments will be provided; no registration is required.
Tue, Apr. 18, 2023
6:00 PM — 9:00 PM
12 SUMMER STREET
BOSTON, MA 02110

April Workshop (Members Only)
2023-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
The 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.

Three Poets @ The Keene Toadstool
2023-04-15 11:00 - 13:00 | Toadstool Bookshops, 12 Emerald St., Keene, NH, 03431, United States
Presented by New England Poetry Club & The Keene Toadstool
Jennifer R. Edwards’ full-length, debut collection is Unsymmetrical Body (Finishing Line Press, 2022). She won the 2022 New England Poetry Club Amy Lowell Prize and was honorably mentioned in 2020. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination from the Poetry Society of NH, a Thomas Lux Poetry Fellowship at Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and support from the Colgate Writers Conference and VCFA Postgraduate Writers' Conference. Her poems appear in literary magazines including Mom Egg Review, One Art, Gyroscope Review, Passengers Journal, Terrain, Literary Mama, Snapdragon, Tiny Spoon, The Racket, Remington Review, FreezeRay Poetry, Ekphrastic Review, and the anthologies Smoky Quartz: Tenth Anniversary Anthology (Monadnock Writers’ Group, 2022) and COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Press, 2020). She currently curates for Button Poetry. Originally from Vermont, she now makes Concord, NH her home and works as an educator and preschool speech-language pathologist. See her work and get in touch at https://linktr.ee/JenEdwards ; Twitter Jennife00420145; Instagram Jenedwards8;
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jennifer_r_edwards.
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson’s debut novel is The Promise of a Normal Life (Arcade Publishing, Feb.2023). Her poetry collections are Girl as Birch, (2022), and OPINEL (2015) Bauhan Publishing. Her work is in these reviews: Agni; Barrow Street; Field; Green Mountains; Greensboro; Interim; Harvard; Massachusetts; Ocean State; Passengers; Salamander; Slate; Tupelo; Antigonish; and VerseDaily, among others. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell, Massachusetts Cultural Council, VSC and VCCA. As Fulbright Scholar she taught in India. She taught poetry at Tufts University for 23 years, then founded, and runs The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville, a poetry reading series.
J. Kates is a minor poet and a literary translator. He has been granted three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. He has published three chapbooks of his own poems and two full books, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books) and Places of Permanent Shade (Accents). He is the translator of a dozen books of Russian and French poetry, edited two anthologies of translations, and collaborated with Stephen A. Sadow on a half dozen books of Latin American and Peninsular Spanish poetry in translation.

An Evening of Poetry with C.I. Marshall
2023-04-11 17:30 - 19:00 | MA
NEPC Member C.I. Marshall will read in person from her prize-winning book, “The Locksmith Journeys Into the Afterlife” at The Tidepool Book Shop, 372 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA 01602 on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 5:30pm. Join us for an evening of poetry with C.I. (Consuelo) Marshall reading from and discussing her new book. Book signing to follow the reading.

PoemCity 2023 Reading
2023-04-08 12:30 - 14:30 | MA
NEPC Member Ralph Culver will read with Sydney Lea and Samn Stockwell on Saturday, April 8 at 12:30 PM ET at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, 135 Main St., in Montpelier, Vermont as part of PoemCity 2023, Montpelier’s annual monthlong celebration of National Poetry Month.
This is a free in-person event and fully accessible.

A Day of Poetry
2023-04-08 | MA
NEPC Member C. I. Marshall will offer “A Day of Poetry” including, “Poetry Prescriptions” and a reading (in-person events) on April 8 at the Chilmark Library, 522 South Road, Chilmark, MA 02535. These events co-hosted by the Vineyard Haven Library. Twenty minutes time slots are offered via Library sign-up. Marshall will also give an in-person reading at the Chilmark Library on April 8 at 5:30 PM following the “Poetry Prescriptions” event.
To register for “Poetry Prescriptions” email: tthorpe@clamset.org

Reading by Board Member Lynne Viti
2023-04-06 17:00 - 18:00 | MA
Lynne Viti will read in person with Heather Corbally Bryant, on Thursday, April 6 at 5 p.m. EDT at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, 2d floor, Green Hall, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Q and A and book signing to follow. The location is accessible. Free and open to the public.
For parking information, see https://www.wellesley.edu/events/attending or call 781-283-2698.

Conversation with Blair Austin
2023-03-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
NEPC member Molly Akin will moderate a conversation with Cambridge writer Blair Austin on March 31 at 7 p.m. EDT at Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge, MA 02140. The location is accessible.

Member Celebration Reading
2023-03-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Please join the New England Poetry Club in a Member Celebration!

March 25, 3-5 pm On Zoom
Twenty-five poets will read from their work, giving us a great opportunity to experience some of the range of NEPC members’ poetry.

To attend, register in advance through this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkde6hrT0vHtb55WTe3rBXJ7xu304yxDIX

March Workshop (Members Only)
2023-03-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

Poetry The Art of Words
2023-03-12 14:00 - 16:00 | MA
Poetry Reading with Joyce Wilson and Steven Riel. Besides the featured readings, there will be an open mike for those who want to read one poem. Look for the signup sheet when you arrive.

Books and Sundry
150 Water Street, Unit 104
Plymouth, MA

Parking is free across the street from this renovated section of Plymouth, but the lots tend to fill up. Give yourselves time to find a space before 2:00 on Sunday.

NEPC February Reading at Fruitlands
2023-02-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Join the New England Poetry Club at Fruitlands Museum for monthly poetry readings this winter. February Poets: Ralph Culver, Carolyn Oliver, and Kent Wittenburg
Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets, gathering for readings by members with new books, and participating in monthly writing workshops.
Readings are free with admission to the Museum: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5. Please be sure to check in at the Museum Shop (white building) for your admission sticker before proceeding to the Art Gallery.
About the Poets
Ralph Culver- Ralph Culver moved in 1970 from Pittsburgh, where he grew up, to Vermont to do undergraduate studies in creative writing, literature, and studio art at Goddard College–and then pretty much stayed. He also has studied writing and literature at the New School in New York City and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, and filmmaking at the University of Vermont. The last couple of years he has divided his time between the Green Mountains and central Pennsylvania. Ralph’s latest collection of poems is A Passable Man (MadHat Press, 2021).
Carolyn Oliver- Carolyn Oliver is the author of three chapbooks and Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, TAB Journal, Southern Indiana Review, Superstition Review, Shenandoah, Plume, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. Her awards include the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review, where she now serves as editor. Carolyn lives with her family in Massachusetts. Her website is carolynoliver.net.
Kent Wittenburg- Kent Wittenburg resumed writing poetry and short fiction in 2018 after a 34-year hiatus during which he had a career in technology research and research management and raised two children with his wife. He then published his first book of poetry The Story is Beginning and Here I am Soaking Wet: Poems for Forest Bathing. His work has also appeared in The Prose Poem: An International Anthology (translation), La Piccioletta Barca, Beyond Words Magazine, Small Moon, and literary magazines at Hampshire and Amherst colleges. He lives in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

February Workshop (Members Only)
2023-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

NEPC January Reading at Fruitlands Museum
2023-01-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Join the New England Poetry Club at Fruitlands Museum for monthly poetry readings this winter. January Poets: Jennifer L. Freed, Matthew E. Henry, and Hannah Mahoney
Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets, gathering for readings by members with new books, and participating in monthly writing workshops.
Readings are free with admission to the Museum: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5. Please be sure to check in at the Museum Shop (white building) for your admission sticker before proceeding to the Art Gallery.
About the Poets
Jennifer L. Freed- Jennifer L Freed’s When Light Shifts: A Memoir in Poems (finalist, 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize) explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage, touching on themes of identity and ability, healing and loss, and the altered relationships that emerge in a family crisis. Freed is also the author of These Hands Still Holding, a finalist for the 2013 New Women’s Voices Chapbook competition. Her work has been published in print and on-line journals including Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, West Trestle Review, The Worcester Review, and Zone 3, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Orison Anthology.. Other awards include the 2022 Frank O’Hara prize, the 2020 Samuel Washington Allen Prize, and honorable mention for the 2022 Connecticut Poetry Award. Please visit jfreed.weebly.com to learn more.
Matthew E. Henry- Matthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publications, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). He is EIC of The Weight Journal and an associate poetry editor at Pidgeonholes. MEH’s poetry appears in The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Pangyrus, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Shenandoah, and Solstice. MEH’s an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. He writes about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground at www.MEHPoeting.com
Hannah Mahoney- Hannah Mahoney’s debut haiku chapbook, Shifting Light, was published in 2022 by Backbone Press. In 2021, she was a featured poet in A New Resonance 12, an annual collection showcasing emerging voices in haiku. Her haiku have appeared in several anthologies, as well as numerous print and online journals. She is a recipient of the Kaji Aso International Haiku Award and the Kaji Aso International Senryu Award. She also writes “regular” poetry and has had her work published in several journals, including the Ekphrastic Review, Unlost, and One Sentence Poems. She lives in Cambridge and works in children’s publishing.

January Workshop (Members Only)
2023-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

January Fest Reading
2023-01-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Please join us for a reading featuring four NEPC poets: Terence Culleton, Richard Fein, and Kenneth Lee. The event will take place at 3 PM on January 8 online.
Register Here
About the Readers:
A former Bucks County PA Poet Laureate and two-time Pushcart nominee, Terence Culleton has published several collections of formally crafted narrative and lyric poems, including A Communion of Saints (2011) and Eternal Life (2015), both with Anaphora Literary Press. His most recent book, A Tree and Gone, out through Future Cycle Press, is a collection of formal English sonnets, many of which have appeared in journals and anthologies and/or been short-listed in sonnet contests. A Tree and Gone was recently included in the New York Review of Books Small Press Releases listing and is available at https://amzn.to/3qDrRqN. Mr. Culleton has had work featured on NPR, and he reads widely throughout the Philadelphia and New York regions.
Richard Fein has published twelve books of poetry. Among the latest are Not a Separate Surge: New and Selected Poems and Losing It. He has also published three books of translations of Yiddish poetry, the latest being The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever. He has published three books of prose: a critical study, Robert Lowell; a memoir of Yiddish, The Dance of Leah; and a book of personal essays, Yiddish Genesis. He lives in Cambridge, Mass.
Kenneth Lee is the author of seven books of poetry as well as individual poems published in Nimrod, Poetry East, The Lyric and several others. He is a recently-retired pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife, Kathleen.

Eileen Cleary, Wendy Drexler, Eric Hyett and Alexis Ivy
2023-01-05 19:00 | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, MA, United States
NEPC Board member Wendy Drexler will be reading with Eileen Cleary, Alexis Ivy and Eric Hyett, at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Thursday, January 5, 2023, at 7 pm. Sign up for the live or virtual reading: https://www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org/upcoming-readings

A Reading to Celebrate Bernadette Mayer
2022-12-22 18:00 | Online
​​NEPC member Chandler Camerato is planning a Zoom marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer’s collection: Midwinter Day.
If you’d like to participate and read a section of the book, please contact Chandler at this address: thismidwinterday@gmail.com
The reading will take place on December 22, 2022, beginning at 06:00 PM Eastern Time.
Register in advance for the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodeirrTgtH9TeuE18018LaiPrm9Oy70vD
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

More about Bernadette Mayer and Midwinter Day
Bernadette Mayer (May 12, 1945-November 22, 2022) was “an avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Mayer had spent most of her life in New York City. Her collections of poetry include Midwinter Day (1982, 1999), A Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Desire of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (1994), Another Smashed Pinecone (1998), Poetry State Forest (2008), and Works and Days (2016), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Known for her innovative use of language, Mayer first won critical acclaim for the exhibit Memory, which combined photography and narration. Mayer took one roll of film shot each day during July 1971, arranging the photographs and text in what Village Voice critic A.D. Coleman described as “a unique and deeply exciting document.”
Mayer’s poetry often challenges poetic conventions by experimenting with form and stream-of-consciousness; readers have compared her to Gertrude Stein, Dadaist writers, and James Joyce. Poet Fanny Howe commented in the American Poetry Review on Midwinter Day, a book-length poem written during a single day in Lenox, Massachusetts: “In a language made up of idiom and lyricism, Mayer cancels the boundaries between prose and poetry, … Her search for patterns woven out of small actions confirms the notion that seeing what is is a radical human gesture.” [Excerpted from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/bernadette-mayer]

spoKe 9 Launch
2022-12-21 19:00 | Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, MA, United States
spoKe 9 Launch
NEPC Board Member Danielle Legros Georges, Susan Eisenberg, and Suzanne Mercury will read with an introduction by Kevin Gallagher.
To register for in-person: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ejilvn0f17cea2d6&llr=6hztvkcab
To register for Zoom: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ejilvn4b18e43a57&llr=6hztvkcab

December Workshop (Members Only)
2022-12-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Online

An Evening of Poetry and Song
2022-12-14 18:00 - 20:00 | MA
PERFORMANCES by poets Regie Gibson, Jeffrey Harrison, Megan Marshall, Anna V.Q. Ross, and Lloyd Schwartz with Sarah Chalfey, Jonathan Woody, and composer Scott Wheeler
Join us for a special evening of song and spoken word featuring six acclaimed Boston-area poets. Hear soprano Sarah Chalfy and baritone Jonathan Woody sing each poets’ works set to composer Scott Wheeler’s original music. Wheeler’s settings include references to Bach, Satie, Mozart, and Caccini in a style that straddles the art song of Virgil Thomson and the theatrical music of Stephen Sondheim. The program, including a poignant work from the late Scott Harney, is sure to inspire.

More Information and Tickets Here:

https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K8a000007c2uI

Voices of Poetry at Cambridge Public Library
2022-12-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join us for an afternoon of exceptional poetry and music, featuring poetry by Mary Buchinger, Tom Daley, Chard DeNiord, Paul Nemser, and Tzynya Pinchback. Music will be played by guitarist, composer, and musicologist Sebastien Jean.
The City of Cambridge does not discriminate on the basis of disability. The Cambridge Public Library will provide auxiliary aids and services, written materials in alternative formats, and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures to persons with disabilities upon request.
Registration is encouraged, but not required.

NEPC December Reading at Fruitlands Museum
2022-12-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Chris O’Carroll, Kathleen Aguero, Anastasia Vassos
Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets, gathering for readings by members with new books, and participating in monthly writing workshops.
These poetry readings will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Art Gallery exhibition “Wind from the Hills.” Drawn from Fruitland’s permanent collection, the selection of artworks in this exhibition is inspired by select poems from Fruitlands Museum Founder, Clara Endicott Sears’ 1935 anthology “Wind from the Hills and Other Poems.” The galleries feature nineteenth century landscape paintings, folk art, Shaker textiles, and Indigenous artworks, revealing the complexities of Sears’ artistic interests while reviving her words through highlights of the collection.
Readings are free with admission to the Museum: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5. Please be sure to check in at the Museum Shop (white building) for your admission sticker before proceeding to the Art Gallery.

Chris O’Carroll is the author of two books of poems, The Joke’s on Me, and Abracadabratude. He has been Light magazine’s featured poet, and his work appears in New York City Haiku, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle, Extreme Sonnets, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, among other collections. Chris has performed widely as a stand-up comedian, and is also a member of Actor’s Equity. His favorite roles on stage have included Frank in Educating Rita, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.
Kathleen Aguero’s most recent book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Books. Her other poetry collections include After That, Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, and Thirsty Day. She has co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press (A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare) and is consulting poetry editor at Kenyon Review. She teaches in the Solstice low-residency M.F.A. program and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program. Kathleen has received grants from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and the Elgin Cox foundation.
Anastasia Vassos was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Nixes Mate, 2021). Her chapbook Nostos will be published by Kelsay Books in 2023. Her work has been named a finalist in Two Sylvias’ and Headlight Review’s Chapbook Contests. Her poems appear in Thrush, RHINO, SWWIM, Comstock Review and elsewhere. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review, speaks three languages, and is a long-distance cyclist. She lives in Boston with her husband.

November Workshop (Members Only)
2022-11-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Online
