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

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Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Maru Colbert, Hilary Sallick, Mark Stevick

Magazine Beach Park Nature Center 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

The 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

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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

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James Baldwin: One Hundred Years

The Little Crêpe Café 102 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Please 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

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Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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. 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

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Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Writer/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

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FAWC + NEPC: New England Poetry Club at the Fine Arts Work Center

Fine Arts Work Center 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA, United States

The 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

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Longfellow Summer Festival: Poetry in Translation with Kymm Coveney and J. Kates

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kymm 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

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Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Jane Attanucci, Charlot Lucien, Lawrence Kessenich

Magazine Beach Park Nature Center 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States

Please join the NEPC as we continue our summer at Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge! The event is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Jane Attanucci grew up as one of eight children in an Irish Catholic family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Boston to attend college and ... Read more

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Poetry at the Manse: Mary Bonina, Patty Crane, Thomas Olivieri

Old Manse 269 Monument St, Concord, MA

Please join us at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., for our first 2024-25 season events hosted by The Trustees! Mary Bonina was finalist for the Goldfarb Fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and awarded several residencies, including at the VCCA retreat, Moulin a Nef, in Auvillar, France. Her newly released poetry collection, ... Read more

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