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SUMMARY:NEPC @ Westwood: Jim Brosnan\, Jennifer L Freed\, Alix Klingenberg
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club is delighted to return to the Westwood (Mass.) Public Library! The reading will happen on Sunday\, January 11\, 2026\, at 2:30 p.m.\, in the Community Reading Room. The poets will be introduced by Lynne Viti\, Westwood Poet Laureate Emerita and a member of the NEPC Advisory Board. This event is free and open to the public\, in an accessible venue. An open mic will follow the featured poets. \nPushcart nominee Jim Brosnan is a university professor\, writer\, photographer\, and avid traveler\, who lives with his wife Donna in southeastern Massachusetts when they are not spending time as residents of coastal Maine. He is a five-time finalist in NEATE’s Poet of the Year competition and has won awards by the National Federation of Poetry Societies. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Aurorean\, The Avocet\, The Bridge\, Eunoia Review (Singapore)\, Lakeview Journal (India)\, Minnesota English Journal\, Naugatuck River Review\, Nine Muses (Wales)\, Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada)\, Strand (India)\, The Madrigal (Ireland)\, and Voices of the Poppies (UK). His first book\, Nameless Roads (Moon Pie Press\, 2019) focused on New England. Long Distance Driving\, his second collection  (Ochre Leaf Press 2024)\, focuses on states west of the Mississippi. \nJennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts (2022)\, a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton book prize\, and second place in the 2025 Eric Hoffer Legacy Non-fiction awards\, where it was also a finalist for the Medal Provocateur for poetry.  Her poems appear in Atlanta Review\, Rust and Moth\, Sheila-na-Gig\, Vox Populi\, and others\, and have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net  For many years she taught adult-level English language (ESL) classes both overseas and to immigrants in the USA.  She now leads creative writing programs and facilitates workshops from Beverly\, Massachusetts. Please visit Jfreed.weebly.com \nAlix Klingenberg is a poet\, artist\, and Unitarian Universalist spiritual director. Her poetic work moves between the intimate and the elemental\, braiding daily life with ecological and spiritual attention. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Secrets and Stars\, Bread Sex Trees\, Hermit Season\, and most recently Quietly Wild (Mandala Earth Publishing\, 2025)\, which pairs poems and photographs with rituals honoring the seasons of the year. \nHer poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies\, and she currently serves as the Managing Poetry Editor at Phil Lit Journal. Alix studied visual art at Oberlin College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School. In addition to her writing\, she teaches workshops and leads retreats that guide participants into deeper connection with language\, creativity\, and the living world.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-westwood-jim-brosnan-jennifer-l-freed-alix-klingenberg/
LOCATION:Westwood Public Library\, 660 High Street\, Westwood\, MA\, 02090\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group\, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nSara Letourneau is the author of Wild Gardens (Kelsay Books\, 2024); a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services; the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield\, Massachusetts; and the co-editor of the Pour Me a Poem anthology. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her latest work can be found in The Arts Fuse\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, The Ekphrastic Review\, Nixes Mate Review\, Silver Birch Press\, The Somerville Times\, The Table Review\, Third Wednesday Magazine\, and Wild Greens. Sara lives in Foxboro\, Massachusetts. \nOwen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks\, most recently A Prayer of Six Wings. His prior book\, Field Light\, was a “Must Read” selection in the 2021 Mass Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E. Cummings Prize from the New England Poetry Club\, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize\, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry\, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine\, and the NEPC Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. He is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University and teaches Narrative Medicine. 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-sara-letourneau-and-owen-lewis/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finding Warmth Under the Waning Moon
DESCRIPTION:Gloria Monaghan (NEPC Membership Secretary and Advisory Board member) invites you to the Open Doors Center for the Arts for a reading featuring Lynne Viti (NEPC Advisory Board member)\, Cynthia Bargar\, Stephen Haven\, and Steven Cramer. An open mic and wine + cheese reception will follow. The event will happen on Saturday\, December 6\, from 6-8 pm. Please note that the venue\, at 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, Mass.\, is not wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/finding-warmth-under-the-waning-moon/
LOCATION:Open Doors Yoga Studios\, 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, MA\, 02188\, United States
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SUMMARY:José Enrique Delmonte\, Shira Zohara Dickey\, Rhina P. Espaillat and Juan Matos
DESCRIPTION:December 5\, 2025\, 7 pm\, Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton St\, Cambridge \nThe NEPC is honored to co-present this evening of poems by José Enrique Delmonte\, Shira Zohara Dickey\, Rhina P. Espaillat\, and Juan Matos with the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Leonardo Nin will introduce the poets. \nThe event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, and on Zoom. Please note that registration is required. Use this link to register for the in-store reading\, and this link for the virtual reading. For the in-store reading\, note that space is limited\, and if you arrive after the start time\, you may jeopardize your seat. \nJosé Enrique Delmonte (1964\, Santo Domingo\, Dominican Republic). Poet\, essayist\, historian\, PhD in linguistics and literature\, and architect. He has received several literary awards\, including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana\, the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair; the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora\, Spain); and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House\, Madrid\, Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City)\, Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World)\, La redondez de lo posible (Roundness of the Possible)\, Habitantes del tedio (Inhabitants of Tedium)\, and La palabra más larga (The Longest Word). José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French. \nShira Zohara Dickey is a US-born architectural historian\, author\, lecturer\, and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages\, with reading proficiency in others\, she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet\, essayist\, and architect\, José Enrique Delmonte\, into English. Shira’s forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history\, a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte\, and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion\, deceased MIT atmospheric physicist\, Ralph J. Markson. Shira Zohara enjoys being a Massachusetts Cantabrigian and sharing her home with her Berger Blanc Suisse. \nDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books\, four chapbooks\, and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections\, essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish\, as well as numerous translations\, from and into both languages\, of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and websites\, and has received many national and international awards. Among the countless other authors whose poetry she has also translated are Robert Frost\, Richard Wilbur\, Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay\, as well as San Juan de la Cruz\, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, Miguel Hernández\, Federico García Lorca\, César Sánchez Beras\, Juan Matos\, Julia Alvarez\, José Marmol\, and many others from Europe\, Latin America\, English speaking authors\, and the large and active Caribbean diaspora in the United States.\nEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets\, the Powow River Poets\, The Melopoeia musical Trio\, and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards\, including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards\, several from the Poetry Society of America\, the New England Poetry Club\, The Robert Frost Foundation\, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic\, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College.\n \nJuan Matos (1956). Educator and cultural activist residing in Lunenburg\, MA. He migrated from the Dominican Republic in 1985. He served as Worcester Poet Laureate (2020-22); sharing and promoting poetry in community centers\, schools\, universities\, and other institutions; and developing creative writing workshops with youth. He has written numerous poetry books; most recent are “Labrador de palabras”(2021); Con pecado concebido (2021); Temblor de espejos (2021); The Man Who Left /El hombre que se fue (2017); Sugar\, Cape\, and Port (2018). His works have been included in many anthologies and magazines. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry (Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo); a Master’s Degree in New York; another Master’s in Elementary School (Lehman College\, NY); and another Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education (Worcester State University). Matos taught ESL & Spanish Literature for 35 years and retired from Worcester Public Schools in 2019. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Latino Educational Institute in Worcester\, MA. juanmatospoeta.com
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/jose-enrique-delmonte-shira-zohara-dickey-rhina-p-espaillat-and-juan-matos/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Linda Haviland Conte\, Jenny Grassl\, Scott Ruescher
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club on November 22\, as we 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. \nLinda Haviland Conte is the author of the full-length collection Seldom Purely and the chapbook Slow as a Poem (Ibbetson Street Press). Her work has appeared in the anthologies From the Farther Shore\, Constellations\, Bagels with the Bards\, and Connecticut River Review.  Linda has been featured in Verse Daily and WCAI’s Poetry Sunday. Her poems have received recognition from state and national poetry societies.  Linda serves on the board of The New England Poetry Club. (lindaconte.net) \nJenny Grassl lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Ocean State Review\, The Boston Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Bennington Review\, Radar Poetry\, Lana Turner Journal\, Laurel Review\, and others. She was a runner-up for The Boston Review Annual Prize\, selected by Mary Jo Bang\, and a finalist for The National Poetry Series. Magicholia\, her first book\, was published in 2024 by 3: A Taos Press. Her second book\, Forever Mistaken for Ourselves\, won publication by Tupelo Press in their July Open Reading period and is forthcoming in 2026. \nScott Ruescher is the author of two full-length collections—Above the Fold\, published by Finishing Line Press in April 2025\, and Waiting for the Light to Change\, published by Prolific Press in 2017—and at least two or three chapbooks. Several years ago\, and twice in a row\, he won the New England Poetry Club’s now-defunct Erika Mumford Prize for poetry about travel and international culture. His new poems have been appearing in Black Horse Review\, Muleskinner Journal\, Pangyrus\, Poets Against Racism and Hate\, The Somerville News\, and The Lantern—the online magazine of the Colby Museum of Art. In retirement from higher education administration and teaching jobs\, he writes promotional copy for an affordable housing nonprofit and works in ESOL and citizenship classrooms in the immigrant communities on the “near North Shore” of Boston.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-linda-haviland-conte-jenny-grassl-scott-ruescher/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry New Book and Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club is proud to partner with the Beehive Poetry Group in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Krysten Hill and Heather Treseler\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry!
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-new-book-and-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC 2025 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.\n\nThe reading will take place in two parts\, the first beginning at 1:00 pm\, the second at 2:30 pm. There will be an “intermission” break between the two parts. \nAdvance registration is required. There will not be a “one size fits all” Zoom link. After registering here\, you will receive a confirmation email with your personalized session link\, which will be good for both parts of the reading. \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-2025-contest-reading/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251109T150000
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SUMMARY:NEPC in Worcester: Linda Carney-Goodrich\, Steven Ratiner\, Elaine Reardon
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New England Poetry Club on November 9\, 2025\, as we rejoin the Worcester County Poetry Association for a reading at the Salisbury House. The reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. The building has limited access\, with steps leading to the entrance. \nLinda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her first book of poetry\, Dot Girl (Nixes Mate\, 2024) was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall and have been published in Solstice Literary Magazine\, Lily Poetry Review\, The MacGuffin\, Literary Mama\, Muddy River Poetry Review\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, Amethyst Review\, Gyroscope Review and more. Linda is a recipient of a writing residency at T.S. Eliot House and an Artist Opportunity Grant through the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. As Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Arts Center\, she organizes a monthly reading series\, poetry & wine pairings\, and a mobile arts project that brings poets to elders in senior housing. She offers classes\, tutoring\, and educational consulting through her business\, Home Scholars of Boston. \nSteven Ratiner is the author of Grief’s Apostrophe\, published by Beltway Editions in 2025.  He’s also published three poetry chapbooks and a collection of poetry interviews.  His work has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad\, including Parnassus\, Agni\, Hanging Loose\, Poet Lore\, Salamander\, Vox Populi\,  QRLS (Singapore)\, and Poetry Australia.  He’s also written poetry criticism for The Christian Science Monitor\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Washington Post.  Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets was reissued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press).  He is Poet Laureate Emeritus for Arlington\, Massachusetts\, and was elected in 2024 as President of the New England Poetry Club\, one of the oldest literary associations in America.  His weekly Red Letter Poems features a diverse range of poets\, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry (stevenratiner.com). \nElaine Reardon writes in a forest in the north Quabbin area.  She’s an herbalist and former educator. Her work has been published  In the United States and Europe in a variety of journals. Elaine’s  first two chapbooks\, The Heart is a Nursery For Hope and Look Behind You won first honors from Flutter Press. A new chapbook\, Stories Told In A Forgotten Tongue\, recently published by Finishing Line Press tells her family story from landing in the United States as refugees to assimilation.  www.elainereardon.wordpress.com
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-in-worcester-linda-carney-goodrich-steven-ratiner-elaine-reardon/
LOCATION:Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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SUMMARY:Red Letter Live! - Regie Gibson\, Dzvinia Orlowsky\, Steven Ratiner\, Rick McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:Arlington Center for the Arts is pleased to be hosting these special Poetry Readings by 3 Red Letter Poets as part of Arlington Open Studios! The event will also feature music by bassist Rick McLaughlin! \nHosted by Steven Ratiner\, publisher of The Red Letters and Jean Flanagan\, Arlington’s Poet Laureate in the Community Room at Robbins Library (700 Mass Ave Arlington\, MA | 1-3pm) \nMore info available at ACARTS.ORG \nRegie Gibson is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the author of Storms Beneath the Skin\, and the creator of the Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy — a theatrical\, literary-musical performance focusing on the life\, works\, and influence of William Shakespeare. He has lectured and performed widely in the US\, Cuba\, and Europe. Among a long list of honors\, Regie has received the Walker Scholarship from the Providence Fine Arts Work Center; multiple Mass Cultural Council Awards for poetry; the YMCA Writer’s Fellowship; the Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation\, and two Live Arts Boston (LAB) grants for the production of his first musical\, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae. In Italy\, representing the U.S.\, Regie received both the Absolute Poetry Award (Monfalcone) and the Europa en Versi Award (LaGuardia di Como). He has served as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts’ How Art Works initiative and the Mere Distinction of Colour — a permanent exhibit examining the legacy of slavery and the U.S. Constitution at President James Madison’s home in Montpelier\, Virginia. He teaches at Clark University in Worcester and is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. \nDzvinia Orlowsky is a founding editor of Four Way Books\, translator\, and author of seven poetry collections with Carnegie Mellon University Press including A Handful of Bees\, reprinted as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Press Classic Contemporary Series; Bad Harvest\, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry; and her most recent\, Those Absences Now Closest\, named to Brilliant Book’s Most Brilliant Books of 2024 list. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted Desna” was a winner of the 2019 New England Poetry Club Samuel Washington Allen Prize selected by Robert Pinsky. For her co-translations with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivets’s and Halyna Kruk’s poetry\, they have been short-listed\, respectively\, for the 2022 Griffin International Poetry Prize\, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry\, ALTA’s National Translation Award in Poetry\, and the 2025 PEN American Literary Award in Translation. \nSteven Ratiner is the author of GRIEF’S APOSTROPHE\, published by Beltway Editions in 2025. He’s also published three poetry chapbooks and a collection of poetry interviews. His work has appeared in scores of journals in America and abroad\, including Parnassus\, Agni\, Hanging Loose\, Poet Lore\, Salamander\, Vox Populi\, QRLS (Singapore)\, and Poetry Australia. He’s also written poetry criticism for The Christian Science Monitor\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and The Washington Post. GIVING THEIR WORD – Conversations with Contemporary Poets was reissued in a paperback edition (University of Massachusetts Press). He is Poet Laureate Emeritus for Arlington\, Massachusetts\, and was elected in 2024 as President of the New England Poetry Club\, one of the oldest literary associations in America. His weekly Red Letter Poems features a diverse range of poets\, from up-and-coming talents to some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry (stevenratiner.com). Steven will also be reading from Fellow Creatures\, a new chapbook of poems by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser\, published as a benefit for the Red Letters. \nRick McLaughlin is a bassist\, composer\, arranger\, and producer whose dynamic performances have taken him to stages on four continents. For more than 25 years\, he has anchored the Grammy-nominated jazz ensemble Either/Orchestra\, appearing in festivals and recordings from Boston to Barcelona and Addis Ababa. McLaughlin has shared the stage with Don Byron\, Steve Lacy\, Danilo Pérez\, John Zorn\, Mulatu Astatke\, and other musical innovators\, earning praise from George Russell as “one of my favorite bassists.” His acclaimed debut album\, Study of Light\, features a groundbreaking jazz adaptation of Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major. Also an educator\, McLaughlin is Professor of Harmony and Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music\, where his course on Stevie Wonder led to his guest appearance on The Wonder of Stevie podcast (2024).
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/red-letter-live-2/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Master Class in Reading Your Work Aloud
DESCRIPTION:In the literary world today\, writers often reach a wider audience through readings and live performances than through publication. Yet most writers are not trained to read their works aloud. Even well-known writers may read mechanically\, monotonously\, with too little—or too much—expression. In this master class\, participants discuss what makes a good reading and explore the wide range of successful reading styles. The readers read a short poem of their own as if they were giving a public presentation\, then get feedback from the class under the guidance of the instructor\, who is an experienced actor\, director\, and radio commentator as well as a poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic. The readers get to “work through” to a livelier\, more effective reading as they deepen their understanding of their own poems. \nThis event is free and open to all. If you wish to receive feedback on your reading\, please prepare a poem of no more than two minutes in length. \nLloyd Schwartz was awarded the 2025 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Annual Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement in poetry and translation. His other honors include the Pulitzer Prize for criticism\, three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his writing about music\, and fellowships in poetry from the NEA\, Guggenheim Foundation\, and Academy of American Poets. The Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston\, he has been the Somerville Poet Laureate since 2019. A noted scholar and editor of Elizabeth Bishop\, he is also the longtime music critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and the WBUR website\, and a member of the Advisory Boards of the New England Poetry Club\, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, and the Poets’ Theatre. His latest book is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (U of Chicago Press). He has offered master classes in reading your own work aloud since 1993. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/a-master-class-in-reading-your-work-aloud/
LOCATION:First Church in Cambridge\, 11 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ the BPL: Lynne Viti\, Chris O’Carroll\, Shanta Lee
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is delighted to return to the Boston Public Library\, Jamaica Plain Branch\, for our third event there this year! The reading\, on Saturday\, October 11 at 3:00 pm\, will be free and open to the public. The JP Branch\, at 30 South Street\, is an accessible venue. \nShanta Lee is a visual artist\, writer across genres\, author\, and public intellectual who often says she is a “…practitioner of entanglement” for all of the ways she brings things together in her work. Winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Grant for Poetic Achievement\, Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award\, and a 2024-25 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow\, her work has been widely featured in addition to her published books. Her professional work has included public health\, non-profits\, education\, arts administration\, and other areas. Lee’s recent work includes a co-edited a critical anthology with Philip Brady\, Sign & Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition (Etruscan Press\, 2025). The work features interviews with 40+ writers and authors across different mediums and genres who were all invited to choose the “one page that sings” from among their work. To explore  more\, visit Shantalee.com. \nChris O’Carroll is the author of three books\, The Joke’s on Me\, Abracadabratude\, and Quantum Creed\, which includes a selection of his recent hell-yes-I-can-be-funny-about-having-cancer poems.  He has been a Light magazine featured poet\, and his work appears in New York City Haiku\, Extreme Sonnets\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, and The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, among other collections. \nLynne Viti is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press\, 2022). Her work has received recognition in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest\, WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest\, Miriam Chaikin/Westbeth Artists Poetry Award\, Tucson Festival of Books\, Highland Park Poetry and Hale Education Poem of the Year. A faculty emerita at Wellesley College\, she facilitates a poets in the schools project in Westwood\, Massachusetts and serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club. She served as the inaugural poet laureate of Westwood\, Massachusetts\,  2023-2025.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-bpl-lynne-viti-chris-ocarroll-shanta-lee/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library (Jamaica Plain)\, 30 South Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T082513
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SUMMARY:The Collaborative Poet: A Day of Readings and a Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of Vermont and New England Poetry Club are excited to announce our first collaborative event! We’ll present morning readings and an afternoon workshop on Saturday\, October 4\, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm\, at the All Souls Church at the West Village Meetinghouse\, West Brattleboro\, Vermont. \nThe day begins with readings by NEPC members Richard Michelson and Gail Thomas\, and PSOV member poet Scudder Parker.  Cindy Ellen Hill will give a short craft talk on “Collaboration” and ways to engage. Lunch will be provided (including vegetarian\, vegan and GF). During lunch\, participants will be invited to “collaborate” and share their work later in an “open mic” format. \nThis event is free for New England Poetry Club and Poetry Society of Vermont members. If you are not a member\, join NEPC and/or PSOV and register for this workshop. Register here by October 1st. \n\n \nRichard Michelson’s books for children\, teens\, and adults have been listed among the Ten Best of the Year by The New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and The New Yorker\, and among the Best Dozen of the Decade by Amazon. He’s received a National Jewish Book Award\, two Gold Medals from the Association of Jewish Libraries\, and his work was chosen to represent the Commonwealth at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. In 2019\, Michelson received the Samuel Minot Jones Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. \nMichelson’s most recent collection\, Sleeping as Fast as I Can\, was a finalist for the 2023 Foreword Indies Award\, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Earlier collections include More Money than God\, and Battles and Lullabies. Michelson wrote the libretto for the music theater piece Dear Edvard: Munch and his Muses. \nA native of East New York\, Brooklyn\, Michelson served two terms as Poet Laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he hosts Northampton Poetry Radio and owns R. Michelson Galleries. \n\n \nScudder Parker’s first volume of poetry\, Safe as Lightning (Rootstock Publishing\, 2020) was awarded the Best Poetry Book of 2020 by the Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE). Scudder’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Sun Magazine\, Crosswinds\, The Lascaux Review\, Sky Island Journal\, Vermont Life\, Northern Woodlands\, and Twyckenham.  His poem “The Poem of the World” was selected as a finalist in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest.  \nFor Scudder\, poetry is the search for truthfulness\, not homage to conclusion. It is exploration—fit of bone in socket\, bees at riot in oregano blossoms\, ache of old injustice summoning an opened heart\, the strange joy of longing\, laughter at long-defended foolishness. Family\, farming\, failing\, finding. Foraging for the innocent sacred\, patient in our midst. Scudder’s had numerous careers—preacher\, organizer\, gardener politician\, energy consultant\, poet—and is still learning from each of them. His new volume\, The Poem of the World\, published by Kelsay Books\, It is now available in bookstores and online. \n\nGail Thomas’ books are Trail of Roots\, Leaving Paradise\, Odd Mercy\, Waving Back\, No Simple Wilderness\, and Finding the Bear. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies including CALYX\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, North American Review\, Cumberland River Review\, and South Florida Poetry Journal. Among her awards are the Seven Kitchens Press A.V. Christie Award for Trail of Roots\, the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy\, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review\, the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read” for Waving Back\, and the Quartet Review’s Editor’s Choice Prize. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross\, and several poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry with Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops\, visits schools and libraries with her therapy dog Sunny\, and supports immigrant and refugee families in Western Massachusetts. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/the-collaborative-poet-a-day-of-readings-and-a-workshop/
LOCATION:All Souls Church at the West Village Meetinghouse\, 29 South St. P.O. Box 2297\, West Brattleboro\, VT\, 05303\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250928T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: bg Thurston\, Stephen Honig\, Sheila Lynch-Benttinen
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s 2025 season at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, concludes on September 28. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard\, stroll along the Concord River\, or enjoy a picnic on the grounds. You can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/.  \nbg Thurston lives on a sheep farm in Warwick\, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College in 2002. She has taught poetry courses at Lasell Village\, online for Vermont College\, and conducts poetry workshops. Her third book of poetry\, The Many Lives of Cathouse Farm/Tales of a Rural Brothel\, was published in 2025 by Červená Barva Press and is the culmination of a decade of historical research about her 1770’s farmhouse. \nStephen Honig has published ten volumes of writings: seven of poetry\, a spy novel\, and two collections of short stories.  His most recent poetic efforts include Unrequited Evils (exploring the decay of our modern world) and Parallel Universes (which asks whether modern poetry can be written in the mode of quantum physics and thus requires a new nomenclature to describe its attributes).  A member of the Board of Directors of New England Poetry Club\, Steve is presently working on a chapbook with one of his sons\, which was prompted by that son’s poem advising “do not let your father grow up to be a poet.”  When not writing\, Steve has occupied himself with practicing corporate law in Boston for the last six decades.  He lives in Newton with his wife\, Laura\, and his recalcitrant cock-a-poo\, Popcorn. \nSheila Lynch-Benttinen has many interests that inform her poetry. She is the granddaughter of Irish immigrants. She has had over 25 haikus published in a number of journals\, and one of her many longer-form poems was a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee. \nWith degrees from U. Mass Amherst and Harvard University\, Sheila has had a varied career in Boston. She was President of Save The Harbor/Save the Bay in Boston\, and a member of the Central Artery Urban Design Team. She was Executive Director of The Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium\, on the Board of The Boston Greenspace Alliance\, and The Stellwagen Bank Advisory Committee. She was Chair of the Spectacle Island Restoration Design Committee for 19 years. She lives south of Boston with her family. She has given lectures about local archeology\, served on the Duxbury Historical Commission and the Duxbury Affordable Housing Trust\, and loves painting and photography.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-bg-thurston-steve-honig-sheila-lynch-benttinen/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250907T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250907T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Karen Klein\, Linda Flaherty Haltmaier\, Sara Letourneau
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event\, the second of two for 2025\, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us! \nKaren Klein began a haiku/senryu writing practice\, published in Modern Haiku & Frogpond\,  then published contemporary lyric poems in journals including Constellations\, Ibbetson Street\, and Wilderness House Literary Review. She founded the poetry/dance collective teXtmoVes\, performing in Greater Boston and Cape Cod\, 2016- 2023. Her first full-length poetry book is This Close (Ibbetson Street Press\, 2022) and her first chapbook\, Embodied (Finishing Line Press\, 2025). She is the co-author\, with linocut artist Scott Ponemone\, of Circularity (BookArt\, 2025). \nShe studied  contemporary dance with Martha Graham in NYC\, Jose Limon Company in CT. Moving to the Boston area\, performed with Across the Ages Dance for 8 seasons and with Prometheus Elders\, 2005-2019. She retired as Associate Professor Emerita after 37 years in the English and American Literature Department\, and is working on a third manuscript\, 1324 Third Avenue South about growing up in Fargo\, North Dakota from 1936-1954. \nLinda Flaherty Haltmaier is the award-winning author of four books of poetry and the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Andover\, MA. Her latest collection\, Shadows Set to Burn\, is the winner of the 2024 International Book Award for Narrative Poetry. Her debut collection\, Rolling up the Sky\, claimed the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize––and her follow-up\, To the Left of the Sun\, won the American Book Fest Award for Poetry. Additional accolades include winning the Robert Frost Poetry Prize\, The JuxtaProse Poetry Prize\, and the Palm Beach Poetry Festival Competition––and Finalist honors for the Princemere Poetry Prize\, the New Millennium Award for Poetry\, the Atlanta Review Poetry Competition and more. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, Linda is a graduate of Harvard and lives on Boston’s North Shore with her husband and daughter. \nSara Letourneau is the author of Wild Gardens (Kelsay Books\, 2024); a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services; the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield\, Massachusetts; and the co-editor of the Pour Me a Poem anthology. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her latest work can be found in The Arts Fuse\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, The Ekphrastic Review\, Nixes Mate Review\, Silver Birch Press\, The Somerville Times\, The Table Review\, Third Wednesday Magazine\, and Wild Greens. Sara lives in Foxboro\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-magazine-beach-park-karen-klein-linda-flaherty-haltmaier-sara-letourneau/
LOCATION:Magazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250831T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250831T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: DeWitt Henry\, Anthony DiPietro\, Angela Patten
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event\, the first of two\, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us! \nDeWitt Henry’s books are Restless for Words: Poems (Finishing Line Press\, 2023); a U.S. edition of Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose (with art by Ruth K. Henry)\,  Trim Reckonings: Poems\, and Do I Dream or Wake? Longer Poems (all from Pierian Springs Press\, 2024).  His Perspectives: Uncollected Essays is coming this fall. He was the founding editor of Ploughshares and is Professor Emeritus at Emerson College. Details at www.dewitthenry.com. \nAnthony DiPietro is a gay sex poet and arts administrator originally from Providence\, Rhode Island. He has lived throughout New England and in California\, New York\, Oregon\, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing\, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now serving as deputy director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University\, he resides in Worcester\, MA. He composed his chapbook\, And Walk Through (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2021)\, on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press\, 2024) is his debut collection and was longlisted for a Mass Book Award in Poetry. He is also the 2025 winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize from the Worcester County Poetry Association. His writing and readings are featured at www.AnthonyWriter.com and on Instagram @ant.providence. \nAngela Patten’s publications include five poetry collections\, most recently Feeding the Wild Rabbit (Kelsay Books 2024)\, The Oriole & the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books)\, In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge Books)\, Reliquaries and Still Listening (both from Salmon Poetry\, Ireland)\, and a prose memoir\, High Tea at a Low Table (Wind Ridge Books). Winner of the Anthony Cronin International Short Poem Award and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Prize\, Patten has received artist grants from the University of Vermont\, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised in Dublin\, she maintains dual citizenship in Ireland and the United States. She lives with her husband\, poet Daniel Lusk\, in Burlington\, Vermont\, and is a Senior Lecturer Emerita in English at the University of Vermont. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-magazine-beach-park-dewitt-henry-anthony-dipietro-angela-patten/
LOCATION:Magazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Libby Maxey\, Nina Rubinstein Alonso\, Matthew Henry
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s summer season continues at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard\, stroll along the Concord River\, or enjoy a picnic on the grounds. You can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. \nLibby Maxey is a senior editor and poetry editor at the online journal Literary Mama\, where she has been a member of the staff for over a decade. Her poems have appeared in Crannóg\, Stoneboat\, Whale Road Review\, Blue Unicorn\, and elsewhere. She is among the winners of the Princemere Poetry Prize\, the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest\, and the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest\, and her chapbook\, Kairos (2019)\, won the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Contest. Her full-length collection\, Indwelling (Resource Publications)\, was released last year. She lives with her family in the hills above the Pioneer Valley\, where she sings classical repertoire and wrangles bells with the Western Massachusetts Guild of Change Ringers. \nNina Rubinstein Alonso’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Sumac\, The New Boston Review\, Southern Women’s Review\, Broadkill Review\, Writing in a Woman’s Voice\, Peacock Journal\, Wilderness House Literary Review\, Nixes Mate\, etc.  Her book This Body was published by David Godine Press. Riot Wake was published by Červená Barva Press and her story collection Distractions En Route by Ibbetson Street. Her novel Balancing On One Leg is about to be published by Wilderness House\, also her chapbook The Ones I Could Tell Anything\, all available on Amazon. She’s also the editor of Constellations: a Journal of Poetry and Fiction (constellations-lit.com). \nMatthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of six poetry collections\, most recently said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions\, 2024). He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal\, the creative nonfiction editor at Porcupine Literary\, and an associate editor at Rise Up Review. MEH’s publications include Barren Magazine\, Had\, Lily Poetry\, Massachusetts Review\, Mayday\, Mom Egg Review\, Nixes Mate\, Pangyrus\, Ploughshares\, Redivider\, Stone Circle Review\, Terrain\, Whale Road Review\, and The Worcester Review. MEH is a high school teacher who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com writing about education\, race\, religion\, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-libby-maxey-nina-rubinstein-alonso-matthew-henry/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250823T160000
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ the BPL: Nidia Hernández\, Naomi Mulvihill\, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC returns to the Boston Public Library\, Jamaica Plain Branch\, for a program featuring poets based in Jamaica Plain. The reading\, on Saturday\, August 23\, at 3:00 pm\, will be free and open to the public. The JP Branch\, at 30 South Street\, is an accessible venue. \nNidia Hernández is a poet\, translator\, editor\, poetry curator\, broadcaster\, and radio producer. Her project “La Maja desnuda” won the World Summit Award 2011 in Culture & Heritage. You can listen to her Radio show on the UPV Radio website. Hernández serves as Associate Editor at Arrowsmith Press and is the poetry curator of Poesiaudio. She’s also a board member of the New England Poetry Club. Her latest book\, “The Farewell Light” (2024)\, was published by Arrowsmith Press. “These poems are set against an invisible clock ticking\, poignantly reminding us of the fleetingness of everything—the stability of the speaker’s home country\, familial memories\, and lost beloveds all retreat into the sea\, like turtle hatchlings guided away from the shore”. ~Patricia Guzman\, World Literature Today. \nNaomi Mulvihill was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MA. Her chapbook\, We All Might Be (Factory Hollow Press)\, won the 2022 Tomaž Šalamun Prize Editor’s Choice Selection. Her first full-length volume of poems\, The Knife Thrower’s Girl\, was awarded the 2022 Washington Prize (The Word Works). Her poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review Online\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, New Orleans Review\, Salamander\, Cimarron\, West Branch\, and others\, and featured in Verse Daily. Naomi’s essays on language and learning have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle and Harvard Educational Review. She is a veteran bilingual teacher in the Boston Public Schools. \nCheryl Clark Vermeulen is the author of They Can Take It Out and chapbooks Dead-Eye Spring and This Paper Lantern\, and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems\, translations\, or poetry reviews have appeared in many literary journals and the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She edits poetry for Pangyrus literary magazine and teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, where she founded the Creative Writing Minor. She lives in Boston with her family. Find out more at https://linktr.ee/cherylclarkvermeulen. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-bpl-nidia-hernandez-naomi-mulvihill-cheryl-clark-vermeulen/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library (Jamaica Plain)\, 30 South Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250810T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250810T160000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival with Martha Collins
DESCRIPTION:For the final 2025 event in the NEPC’s We (too) The People series at the Longfellow House\, we’re honored to present Martha Collins\, this year’s recipient of the Golden Rose\, one of America’s oldest literary prizes. We award the Rose to a poet who\, through their poetry\, inspires and encourages other writers and has made a significant mark on American poetry. \nMartha Collins has published eleven books of poetry\, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her other publications include three books of poems that focus on race (Blue Front\, White Papers\, and Admit One: An American Scrapbook)\, and five co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry\, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ (with Nguyen Ba Chung; Milkweed\, 2023)\, a PEN America award finalist. She has also published several co-edited anthologies\, including Into English: Poems\, Translations\, Commentaries (with Kevin Prufer; Graywolf\, 2017). \nCollins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com. \nWe’ll be joined by violinist Elizabeth Burke\, with music beginning at 2: 45 pm. \nIf you’re not able to attend in person\, you can watch online! Register here. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn the event of inclement weather\, the reading will be held indoors. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-with-martha-collins/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T082513
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival with Richard Blanco
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s summer season at the Longfellow House continues. For the third event in our We (too) The People series\, we’re thrilled to present Richard Blanco to our audiences\, with special musical guest Angel Subero. \nSelected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history\, Richard Blanco was the youngest\, the first Latinx\, immigrant\, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023\, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBorn in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family\, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry\, including his most recent\, Homeland of My Body\, which reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geographical\, tangible place that merely exist outside us\, but rather\, within us. He has also authored the memoirs For All of Us\, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. \nBlanco has received numerous awards\, including the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize\, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award\, the Patterson Prize\, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has received numerous honorary degrees.  Currently\, he serves as Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets and is an Associate Professor at Florida International University.  In April 2022\, Blanco was appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. \nSpecial musical guest Angel Subero is a Venezuelan Trombonist\, Professor & Head of the Brass Area at the Boston Conservatory\, and on the Brass Faculty at Berklee College of Music. He is the Bass Trombonist of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. \nIf you’re not able to attend in person\, you can watch online! Register here. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn the event of inclement weather\, the reading will be held indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-with-richard-blanco/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Kathleen Latham\, Steven Rapp\, Sue Owen
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s summer season continues at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard\, stroll along the Concord River\, or enjoy a picnic on the grounds. You can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. \nKathleen Latham is a poet and short story writer from Westwood\, MA whose work has appeared in multiple journals and anthologies such as The Comstock Review\, The Masters Review\, and Tipton Poetry Journal. A Highly Commended winner of the UK’s Bridport Prize\, she’s also won the Web Microfiction Prize for Women Writers\, the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition\, and a Bath Flash Fiction Award. Twice nominated for Best Small Fictions and a Best of the Net award\, she’s been shortlisted for the Bevel Summers Prize\, the Stockholm Writer’s Festival First Pages Prize\, and for contests in such places as Fish Flash Fiction\, Reflex Fiction\, and Fractured Lit. Her debut poetry collection\, The Ones (Kelsay Books)\, was recently nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Occidental College in Los Angeles\, where she grew up\, and a master’s degree in human development from Harvard University. \nSteven Rapp is a writer\, environmental engineer\, yoga teacher\, and former Peace Corps volunteer (Benin 1986 – 1988). Steve’s poetry first appeared in his book\, Aleph Bet Yoga\, Embodying the Hebrew Letters For Physical and Spiritual Well-Being (Jewish Lights\, 2002). His poetry has also appeared in The American Diversity Report\, Silver Blade\, and most recently in The Silver Note: Poets of Arlington\, Massachusetts (Ibbetson Street\, 2025). He is a member of the New England Poetry Club and one of the Beehive Poets in Arlington\, Massachusetts. Since July 2023\, Steve has coordinated and run Arlington’s Poetry New Book and Open Mic monthly series at the Robbins Library. \nThe dark humor poet Sue Owen\, who has lived in Cambridge for twenty years\, has published five books of poetry\, including Nursery Rhymes for the Dead\, The Book of Winter\, My Doomsday Sampler\, The Devil’s Cookbook\, and most recently\, Hurricane in a Bad Mood.  Her poems have appeared in Harvard Magazine\, The Iowa Review\, The Nation\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Ploughshares\, as well as in numerous anthologies.  She also won the Gretchen Warren Award from the New England Poetry Club for the best poem published in the previous year.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-kathleen-latham-steven-rapp-sue-owen/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250720T150000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival with Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s summer season at the Longfellow House continues with a unique pairing of dynamic poets! Join us for the second event in our We (too) The People series. This afternoon’s event includes special musical guest Todd Brunel on bass clarinet\, reinterpreting American musical themes in a 21st century context. \nDiannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator\, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the collections Ugly Music (YesYes Books\, 2019)\, which was the winner of a 2020 Whiting Award\, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024). She received her MFA at NYU and has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Community of Writers\, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. From 2022-2024\, she was the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth\, NH\, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. \nStephanie Burt is a poet\, literary critic\, and professor. In 2012\, the New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” Burt grew up around Washington\, DC and earned a BA from Harvard and PhD from Yale. Burt’s books include We Are Mermaids (2022)\, After Callimachus (2020)\, Advice from the Lights (2017)\, Belmont (2013)\, Parallel Play (2006)\, and Popular Music (1999). \nBurt’s works of criticism include The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016); Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Art of the Sonnet\, written with David Mikics (2010); The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence (2007); Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005)\, with Hannah Brooks-Motl; and Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002). \nBurt has taught at Macalester College and is now Professor of English at Harvard University. \nTodd Brunel is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and sax player and the director of music at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover\, NH. He performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician. \nIf you’re not able to attend in person\, you can watch online! Register here. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn the event of inclement weather\, the reading will be held indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-with-diannely-antigua-and-stephanie-burt/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival: Robert Pinsky
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the east lawn of the Longfellow House for an afternoon with Robert Pinsky! It’s the first event in our 2025-26 We (too) The People series. \nRobert Pinsky’s most recent book of poems is Proverbs of Limbo. A PoemJazz album of the same title is available on Spotify and Apple Music. His autobiographical prose book is Jersey Breaks. \nRobert’s honors include the Korean Manhae Award\, the Italian Premio Capri\, and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago. He has honorary degrees from institutions including Stanford University\, The New School\, and the University of Michigan. \nAs United States Poet Laureate\, he founded the Favorite Poem Project\, with brief videos in which thousands of American readers\, of varying backgrounds\, ages\, and regions\, read poems they admire by writers such as Emily Dickinson\, Pablo Neruda\, Frank O’Hara\, Langston Hughes\, Elizabeth Bishop\, Louise Glück\, Siegfried Sassoon. \nIf you’re not able to attend in person\, you can watch online! Register here. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn the event of inclement weather\, the reading will be held indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-robert-pinsky/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Catherine Staples\, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes\, Elizabeth McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club’s summer season continues at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake a day of it! Arrive early or linger after the reading to explore the orchard\, stroll along the Concord River\, or enjoy a picnic on the grounds. You can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. \nCatherine (Calello) Staples grew up in Dover\, Massachusetts. Her latest book\, Vert (Mercer University Press\, 2024)\, is rooted in New England woods\, meadows\, and Cape Cod coasts. From the track of skates on the Charles River to words etched on the Manse’s nineteenth-century glass\, place is at the heart of the transformation of loss. She’s also the author of The Rattling Window and Never a Note Forfeit. Her poems and reviews have appeared in the Academy of American Poets\, Kenyon Review\, Poetry\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, and others. Honors include: Guy Owen prize\, McGovern Poetry Prize\, and Walter Dakin Fellowship. She teaches in the Honors and English programs at Villanova University and serves on the board of the Thoreau Society. \nJosé Edmundo Ocampo Reyes was born and raised in the Philippines. He is the author of Present Values\, winner of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. His poems have appeared in The Hudson Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Pleiades\, Rattle\, Bennington Review\, Poetry Northwest\, RHINO Poetry\, Consequence Forum\, Laurel Review\, Lily Poetry Review\, and other journals; and have been featured on The Slowdown. His work has also been anthologized in The Powwow River Anthology (Volumes I and II)\, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poetry Series)\, and The Achieve Of\, The Mastery: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English\, mid-‘90s to 2016 (University of the Philippines Press). In 2024\, he received the Robert H. Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America for a selection of poems. \nElizabeth McCarthy lives in an old farmhouse in northern Vermont. Retired from teaching\, she turned to poetry in 2020 when the world closed down and time became a windfall. She is a member of the Poetry Society of Vermont and the Lockdown Poets of Aberdeen\, Scotland\, an online international group of poets. Elizabeth enjoys running with her husband along the woods roads in the Northeast Kingdom where they train for local and national races. Many of her poems have been found during those long slow runs. Elizabeth’s first manuscript\, Digging Potatoes\, was shortlisted in the Hunger Mountain: VCFA May Day Mountain Chapbook Series Contest in 2021. Since then she has published four collections of poetry\, including; The Old House (a self-published poetry memoir\,) Winter Vole (Finishing Line Press 2022\,) Hard Feelings (Finishing Line Press 2024) and Wild Silence (Kelsay Books 2024).
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-catherine-staples-jose-edmundo-ocampo-reyes-elizabeth-mccarthy/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T203000
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Poetry Extravaganza with Pamela Gemme and David P. Miller
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s delighted to have an evening at The Poetry Extravaganza! Please join us at The Mill in West Boylston\, Mass. Admission is free. \nTo sign up for the Open Mic (5 minute maximum\, no language restrictions)\, contact jfjr6969@gmail.com. Connect to the Worcester County Poetry Association calendar for more details. \nPamela Gemme is an internationally published poet. She co-edited Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology from WVU Press\, released in May 2023.Her publications include The American Journal of Poetry\, The Chicago Quarterly Review\, J Journal\, SoFloPoJo\, Ibbetson Street Magazine\, and many others. Pamela runs workshops locally and works privately with poets who are working to write trauma. Pamela is on the National Baseball Poetry Festival’s Executive Committee. \nDavid P. Miller’s collection\, Bend in the Stair\, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Sprawled Asleep was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea\, Reed Magazine\, The Arts Fuse\, Solstice\, Salamander\, Tar River Poetry\, Second Coming\, Lily Poetry Review\, and Nixes Mate Review\, among other journals. His poems “Interview” and “And You” were included in an issue of Magma (UK) focused on teaching poetry to secondary school students. He is a member of Boston’s Jamaica Pond Poets.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-poetry-extravaganza-with-pamela-gemme-and-david-p-miller/
LOCATION:The Mill\, 185 W. Boylston St.\, West Boylston\, MA\, 01583\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T170000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Student Poetry Awards
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Longfellow Student Poetry Awards on Sunday\, June 1\, 2025\, at 3:00 PM at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge\, MA. \nThis annual event celebrates the creativity of young poets. It features readings by elementary\, middle\, and high school students who have won the Longfellow Student Poetry Contest. The ceremony will conclude with the presentation of the Victor Howes Prize to an outstanding undergraduate poet. \nThe event is co-sponsored by the Frank Buda Memorial Fund\, New England Poetry Club\, Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters\, and the National Park Service. Admission is free\, and no registration is required. \nFor more details\, visit the official event page: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=4C9CE34E-E363-5C73-2863D1D6B4047279
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-student-poetry-awards-2/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Linda Carney-Goodrich\, Diana Cole\, Gail Hanlon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we return to The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, for this free event! The\nreading will be held under a tent outdoors\, and the venue is accessible. \nLinda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her first book of poetry\,\nDot Girl (Nixes Mate Books\, 2024) was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club's\nSheila Margaret Motton Prize. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall and\nhave appeared in Lily Poetry Review\, The MacGuffin\, Literary Mama\, Muddy River\,\nAnti-Heroin Chic\, and Gyroscope Review\, among others. Linda is the Poetry\nCoordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and owner of Home Scholars of\nBoston. \nDiana Cole\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, has been published in over 60 poetry journals\nincluding Poetry East\, Spillway\, Main Street Rag\, Cider Press Review\, The Public's\nRadio 89.3\, Friends Journal\, Verse Daily\, New Verse News\, and Orison Books. For five\nyears she was editor for The Crosswinds Poetry Journal. In 2024 she was awarded\nsecond place in the Notable Works Poetry Initiative in Rhode Island.  For various\ngalleries in Rhode Island she has organized Ekphrastic events where poets respond to\nartworks. With her expertise in vocal coaching\, she offers poetry workshops in Reading\nAloud to help poets use their voices to enhance the meaning and music of their poems\nin readings. In 2018 her chapbook\, Songs By Heart was published by Iris Press and her\nfull length book\, Between Selves\, was released in 2023 by Indian Press\, Cyberwit.net. \nGail Hanlon’s poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Cincinnati\nReview\, CutbankOnline\, The Iowa Review\, Pittsburg Review\, New Letters\, Verse Daily\,\nand BEST AMERICAN POETRY\, among other journals and anthologies. She has\npublished Silent Letter (Cornerstone 2023) and two chapbooks\, and also edited Voicing\nPower: Conversations with Visionary Women. Her work received the National Writer’s\nUnion Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the Iowa Review Award and CutBank’s\nPatricia Goedicke Prize\, and long-listed for Cutbank’s Chapbook Award\, the Tomaž\nŠalamun Prize at VERSE\, and OSU’s The Journal Wheeler Prize\, among others.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-linda-carney-goodrich-diana-cole-gail-hanlon/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T140000
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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Jean Flanagan\, Kevin Carey\, Colleen Michaels
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club on May 10\, as we 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. The Menino Arts Center\, located 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. \nJean Flanagan is the author of two books of poetry:  Ibbetson Street (Garden Street Press) and Black Lightning (Cedar Hill Books).  Her work has appeared in numerous publications\, including recently in Nixes Mate Review and in the Broken Cord\, published by Two Dogs Press. Flanagan teaches in an alternative sentencing program called “Changing Lives Through Literature”. She is one of the founders of the Arlington Center for the Arts and the Poet Laureate of Arlington\, Massachusetts. \nKevin Carey’s books include the poetry collections The One Fifteen to Penn Station\, Jesus Was a Homeboy\, Set in Stone\, the co-written Olympus Heights\, and the collaboration Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs. He has published three works of fiction:  The Beach People\, Murder in the Marsh and a new novel Junior Miles and the Junkman (Regal House / Fitzroy Books) which won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers and has been chosen for the Pen Faulkner Writers in the Schools Program in Washington\, DC. Kevin is the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag. A new co-directed film MFA: The Terminal Degree\, a murder mystery comedy\, will premiere April 30th at Cinema Salem\, Salem\, MA. https://kevincareywriter.com/ \nColleen Michaels is the author of Prize Wheel (Small Bites Press\, 2023) which was a finalist for the Paterson Prize\, and coauthor\, along with Kevin Carey\, of the chapbook\, Olympus Heights (Lily Poetry Review\, 2023). She is a winner of the 2024 Ginsberg Poetry Prize and a 2024 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals.  Her poems have been commissioned as installations for The Massachusetts Poetry Festival\, The Peabody Essex Museum\, and The Trustees of Reservations. She directs the Writing Studio at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly\, Massachusetts\, where she began the Improbable Places Poetry Tour\, bringing poetry to unlikely places like tattoo parlors\, laundromats\, airports\, and swimming pools. Yes\, in the pool.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-jean-flanagan-kevin-carey-colleen-michaels/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T170000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Legros Georges Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Danielle Legros Georges Memorial Reading honoring Danielle’s life and work this Sunday\, May 4\, from 1:00 until 5:00 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston. \nThe event is sponsored by the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture\, in partnership with the ICA/Boston and the New England Poetry Club\, and with additional thanks to Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, Haitian Artist Assembly of Massachusetts\, Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center\, Dark Room Collective\, and Langston’s Legacy Poetry Collective. \nThe event will feature readings of her poetry by twenty writers\, poets\, and publishers\, followed by a reception. \nTo attend this special reading and reception\, Please RSVP here. (Registration is required for free ICA admission.) \nTo attend virtually\, information and a link to the livestream through the City of Boston’s YouTube page here.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/danielle-legros-georges-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Institute of Contemporary Art\, 25 Harbor Shore Dr\,\, Boston\, MA\, 02210\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T170000
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month @ the BPL: Eleanor Kedney\, Mary Hills Kuck\, James Zimmerman
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is partnering with the Boston Public Library\, Jamaica Plain Branch\, for a National Poetry Month kickoff! The reading\, on Saturday\, April 5 at 3:00 pm\, will be free and open to the public. The JP Branch\, at 30 South Street\, is an accessible venue. \nEleanor Kedney is the author of three books: Twelve Days From Transfer (3: A Taos Press\, 2024)\, Between the Earth and Sky (C&R Press\, 2020)\, and the chapbook The Offering (Liquid Light Press\, 2016). Twelve Days From Transfer is a 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards finalist; Between the Earth and Sky was a finalist for the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and the American Book Fest 2020 Best Book Awards. Her work has been published in various journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. Honors for individual poems include the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) and a finalist mention in the 2020 Mslexia Poetry Competition. Kedney founded the Tucson branch of the New York-based Writers Studio and served as the director for ten years. Inspired by craft techniques utilized in her books\, Eleanor developed the “Writing Toward Forgiveness” workshop. She joined the Tucson Poetry Festival board in 2021. \nMary Hills Kuck\, a born Midwesterner\, has spent most of her adult life in the US Northeast and in Jamaica\, West Indies. Since retiring from teaching German\, English\, and ESOL\, she has settled in Massachusetts with her husband and family. She has published poems in The Connecticut River Review\, SLANT\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, Burningword Literary Journal\, From the Depths\, Poetry Quarterly\, Main Street Rag\, Amethyst\, The Lyric\, and a number of other journals. Intermittent Sacraments\, her chapbook\, was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press. Her full-length book\, Before I Forget\, was published by Kelsay Books in 2024\, which sponsored it for an Eric Hoffer Award. She has received a Pushcart Prize nomination. \nA frequent Pushcart Prize nominee\, James K. Zimmerman‘s work appears in Chicago Quarterly Review\, december\, Folio\, Lumina\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Rattle\, and Reed\, among numerous other journals and publications\, and is also featured on websites such as The Poetry Foundation\, American Life in Poetry\, and Vallum. He is the author of Little Miracles (Passager Books)\, Family Cookout (Comstock) – winner of the Jessie Bryce Niles Prize – and The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen (Poetry Box). Valuing his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative inspiration\, he also cultivates roses\, orchids\, friends\, and paradoxical questions in his spare time. He can be contacted at https://jameskzimmerman.net. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/national-poetry-month-the-bpl-eleanor-kedney-mary-hills-kuck-james-zimmerman/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library (Jamaica Plain)\, 30 South Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch @ The Blacksmith House with Steven Ratiner
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Blacksmith House in Harvard Square for the launch of Grief’s Apostrophe (Beltway Editions) by NEPC President Steven Ratiner! He will be joined by Jonathan Aaron\, reading from Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon). All are welcome to this accessible venue.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/book-launch-the-blacksmith-house-with-steven-ratiner/
LOCATION:Blacksmith House\, 56 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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