Sophie Cabot Black Geometry of the Restless Herd. Poetry
Brookline Public Library, Coolidge Corner 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA, United StatesPoet Sophie Cabot Black visits Boston with her recent book; Geometry of the Restless Herd from which she will offer a reading of poems. "In Geometry of the Restless Herd Sophie Cabot Black stages a powerful allegory for the social and political realities of our human world. Through hauntingly metaphysical poems set within a sheepherder’s ... Read more
Longfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsKick 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 contest aims to encourage and ... Read more
2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts(Note: in the event of rain, this event will be held in the Longfellow Carriage House AND livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@LONGNPS/streams.) Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gail Mazur grew up in Auburndale, MA. Since the 1960s she has lived primarily in Cambridge and Provincetown, with periods in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles. In 1973, she ... Read more
Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Maru Colbert, Hilary Sallick, Mark Stevick
Magazine Beach Park Nature Center 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe NEPC is delighted to be invited back to Mass Audubon's Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. The event is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is required (https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/92363-nature-poetry-readings). Please join us! Maru Colbert is an engineering professor and performer. Her collegiate research and teaching span three engineering fields and she ... Read more
Celebrating Amy Lowell: Garden Poetry from a Poet Gardener
Somerville Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA 02143 Come to the Somerville Growing Center to gather, listen, and celebrate the garden poetry of Amy Lowell. This special event will focus on poetry by and in connection to Amy Lowell, with readings from Jennifer Clarvoe, Lloyd Schwartz, and Denise Provost. Conversation and an open mic ... Read more
James Baldwin: One Hundred Years
The Little Crêpe Café 102 Oxford Street, CambridgePlease join Cambridge Arts, the Little Crêpe Café, and the New England Poetry Club for a celebration of the life and work of James Baldwin, on the occasion of his centennial! Free of charge and open to all: please come to read excerpts from Baldwin's work and share your thoughts. Hosts: Denise Provost and Jean ... Read more
Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsThe Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and beyond. Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press. She is an award-winning author of six poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have been ... Read more
Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsWriter/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s (she/her) recent books are Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, and the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, co-created with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield and winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, co-created with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman. Her poems have appeared in The Slowdown, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, ... Read more
FAWC + NEPC: New England Poetry Club at the Fine Arts Work Center
Fine Arts Work Center 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA, United StatesThe NEPC teams up with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown to present Cynthia Bargar, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Christine Jones. The reading will take place in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, 24 Pearl Street., Provincetown, Mass. 02657. A Q&A session will follow. Cynthia Bargar is the author of Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room ... Read more
Longfellow Summer Festival: Poetry in Translation with Kymm Coveney and J. Kates
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsKymm Coveney was born in Boston, raised in Scituate, and has lived in Spain since the 1982 World Cup. The pandemic caught this free-lance writer and translator sheltering in Jamaica Plain, where she now spends the summer months, far from Barcelona's heat. History of Milk, Kymm's translation of award-winning novelist Mónica Ojeda's poetry collection, will be published ... Read more