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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Longfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris

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

(Please note: this event was originally scheduled for July 14, 2024.) Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. She is the ... Read more

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Online: 2024 Contests Reading

Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading, featuring: Poems from winners of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize contests; Winning and honorable-mention poems from our single-poem contests: Samuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence E.E. Cummings Prize, for a compelling, lyrical, or experimental short poem ... Read more

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Poetry at the Manse: Toni Bee, Jesse Mavro Diamond, Therese Gleason

Old Manse 269 Monument St, Concord, MA

Please join us at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., for this free event! The reading will be held under a tent outdoors, and the venue is accessible. Toni Bee is a poet, educator, and photographer hailing from Boston, MA. She is a 2024-2025 GrubStreet Teaching Fellow as well as a workshop facilitator for Writers ... Read more

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Poetry and Music at Medford Brewing Company

Medford Brewing Company 30 Harvard Ave., Medford, MA, United States

Join the New England Poetry Club for poetry, music, and a touch of surrealism, at the Medford Brewing Company! Regie Gibson will headline the afternoon, which will also highlight NEPC member poets based in Medford. We'll have original songs from Max Heinegg. And be prepared for the game of Exquisite Corpse ... Literary Performer, poet, ... Read more

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Red Letter Live!

Robbins Library 700 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA, United States

Steven Ratiner, NEPC member and publisher of the weekly Red Letter Poems, is announcing the fifth annual RED LETTER LIVE! poetry event featuring poets: Danielle Legros Georges Indran Amirthanayagam Heather Treseler Steven Ratiner And a musical performance by clarinetist Todd Brunel The event will be held on Saturday, November 9th 2024, 1-3 p.m with a ... Read more