Fruitlands: Ann Bookman, Mary Beth Hines, Alfred Nicol
2023-11-19 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Reading as part of New England Poetry Club’s reading series at Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Mass.
Left to right: Alfred Nicol, Mary Beth Hines, Ann Bookman
Ann Bookman, a recent Pushcart Prize nominee, has published poems in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Larcom Review, Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Chronogram, and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, among others. In 2012, she published a chapbook, Point of Attachment, with Finishing Line Press. Her first full collection, Blood Lines, was published by Kelsay Books in the spring of 2022. After a 40-year career in academia, she is currently a Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Writers Center. For more information about her work, please visit her website: annbookman.com
Mary Beth Hines grew up in Massachusetts where she spent Saturday afternoons falling in love with stories and poems in the Waltham Public Library. A graduate of The College of the Holy Cross, she also studied for a year at Durham University in England. Following a career in public service (Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts), she began a regular creative writing practice. She is an award-winning poet, an alumna of the Colrain Manuscript Conference, and recently completed an “Assets for Artists” residency at Mass MoCA with the Boiler House Poets Collective. Kelsay Books published her debut collection, Winter at a Summer House, in November 2021. Her poetry appears in Crab Orchard Review, SWWIM, Tar River, Valparaiso, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.marybethhines.com.
Alfred Nicol’s translation of One Hundred Visions of War by Julien Vocance, published in November 2022, has been called “an essential addition to the history of modernist poetry.” Nicol was the recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light. His other publications include Animal Psalms and Elegy for Everyone, and his poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse, Commonweal, The Formalist, The Hopkins Review, Presence and The Best American Poetry 2018. The New England Poetry Club chose Nicol for its 2006 Daniel Varoujan Award and its 2005 Firman Houghton Award.
Registration suggested / site information: https://thetrustees.org/event/88750/

ZOOM: Rajiv Mohabir, Lindsey Schaffer, Cindy Veach
2023-12-10 15:00 - 16:30 | MA
L to R: Lindsey Schaffer, Rajiv Mohabir, Cindy Veach
Sunday, December 10, 3-4:30 pm
Via ZOOM: register in advance to receive the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduqoqTIjH91ENL3VOYcKRXTkpy2BW1zX
Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of four books of poetry including Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His poetry and nonfiction have been finalists for the 2022 PEN/America Open Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and in Nonfiction, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2022 (poetry and memoir respectively). His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets in 2020. Whale Aria (Four Way Books 2023) is his fourth collection of poetry and currently he is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Lindsey Schaffer is a poet interested in exploring the intersections between creative writing and museum spaces. In particular, she seeks to understand material culture in the context of the cities in which it is displayed. This focus has led her to unearth a variety of contradictions in two cities which has culminated in two chapbooks, City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station, 2022) and Witch City (dancing girl press, forthcoming).
(To purchase City of Contradiction, contact Lindsey on Twitter @LindseyAnn3)
Cindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and an IPPY Silver Medalist in poetry, Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read,’ and the chapbook, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, Salamander and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize, she is poetry co-editor of MER.
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Fruitlands. Jhonny Victor, Marie Gauthier, Len Krisak
2023-12-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Marie Gauthier is the author of Leave No Wake (Pine Row Press, 2022) and Hunger All Inside (Finishing Line Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Sugar House Review, The West Review, Mom Egg Review, and elsewhere. She works for Pioneer Valley Books, runs the Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, Mass., where she lives with her family, and serves as Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
Len Krisak’s most recent books are Say What You Will (original verse) and a complete verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. His work has appeared in the Hudson, Sewanee, Antioch, and Southwest Reviews, among many others, and he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost Prizes. Len is also a four-time champion on Jeopardy!
Jhonny Victor is an Haitian American Poet and Author. He uses his native language, Haitian Creole, French and English as tools to express his emotions, his understanding and his philosophy of life through poetry, lyrics, essays, guitar playing, singing and public speaking. He has published his first poetry collection, The Working-class and Its Burden, describing it as inspirational and a call for action.

Registration suggested

Member Celebration Online
2024-01-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Online
Our first Member Celebration in March 2023 was a joyful event, featuring a wide variety of voices. Please join us for the second Celebration!
To attend, register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcuytrT0iGNfUyhtRETnjxahnxr4nFbv7. You will receive an individual Zoom link.

Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; Wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
2024-01-13 00:00 | MA
The first of this year’s Amy Lowell events will be a wreath-laying at her grave at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, in Collaboration with Friends Mount Auburn Cemetery.
It will take place on her birthday, Friday, February 9th, at 3:30 pm.
If you are so inclined, please bring a Lowell poem to read as part of this event.
We’ll have other events, including readings and discussions, to celebrate Lowell’s literary – and lyrical – legacies.

Fruitlands: Mary Buchinger, Timothy Gager, John L. Holgerson
2024-01-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
(Left to right: Timothy Gager, Mary Buchinger, John L. Holgerson)
Mary Buchinger is the author of six collections of poetry; her most recent books are Navigating the Reach and Virology; her work has appeared in AGNI, Maine Review, Plume, Salamander, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. Buchinger grew up on a farm in Michigan, volunteered for the Peace Corps, and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club.
Bestselling author Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his latest novel, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over one thousand works of fiction and poetry published, eighteen nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, The Best of Timothy Gager, with 150 pages of new material. Timothy served as the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review for ten years, and was the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
John L. Holgerson is the author of three books of poetry: Convictions of the Heart (In Case of Emergency Press 2021), Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Steel Heart (Finishing Line Press 2016) and Broken Borders (Wasteland Press 2012). He has published poems in small literary journals, in print and online. He is listed in the Poets & Writers’ Magazine Directory of Poets and Writers, is one of three MassPoetry representatives for Bristol County and co-hosts For the Love of Words, an hour long program on Easton Cable Access Television featuring a different poet and musician each month. He lives most of the year in Taunton, MA and is the founder of the Poetry as Verdict project providing a public venue for high school student-poets to read their work. Since 1995, he resides the rest of each year on the Greek island of Hydra. Please see johnlholgerson.com.
The reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.

Readings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.

Registration suggested

Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Networks taken by Amy Lowell Poems.
2024-02-09 | Social networks, Instagram, FaceBook, X, Linkedin
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This February 9, marks 150 years since Amy Lowell’s birth, throughout the day we will be offering readings of her poems in the voices of important poets, both her American peers and her peers from around the world. We will extend these readings throughout the year 2024 to celebrate its 150th Anniversary.
We are going to take over the networks with videos of poets reading Amy Lowell.
Amy Lowell in the voices of all the poets on networks.
Everyone read Amy Lowell on the networks.
Hashtag: #amylowell150.

Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; Wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
2024-02-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt Auburn St,, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
The first of this year’s Amy Lowell events will be a wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge in collaboration with Friends Mount Auburn Cemetery.
It will take place on her birthday, Friday, February 9th, at 1 pm.
If you are so inclined, please bring a Lowell poem to read as part of this event.
We’ll have other events, including readings and discussions, to celebrate Lowell’s literary – and lyrical – legacies.

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Visit New England Poetry Club at Radio Show, "Open Reading" hosted by Sal Inglima
2024-02-10 14:00 | MA
New England Poetry Club Board Members will visit the at Somerville Media Center, Radio Show, “Open Reading” hosted by Sal Inglima.
Conversation about Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary, her life, events and reading poems by Denise Provost, Linda Conte, Doug Holder and Nidia Hernández.
Sal Inglima’s Open Reading brings the poets of Somerville and beyond to Boston Free Radio.

Fruitlands: Chard deNiord, Robbie Gamble, Pamela Gemme
2024-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
(Left to right: Pamela Gemme, Chard deNiord, Robbie Gamble)
Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020), Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. From 2015 to 2019 he served as poet laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.
Robbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Post Road, Pangyrus, Salamander, The Sun, Tahoma Literary Review, and The Worcester Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans, published by Lily Poetry Review Press, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont.
Pamela Gemme was born to working class parents and grew up in Gardner, Massachusetts. She went to state universities, is a poet, artist, political activist, and a child protection social work consultant for Massachusetts’s DCF. Recent or forthcoming publications include The American Journal of Poetry, Pangyrus, Haiku Journal, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Heliotrope Anthology, J Journal, SoFloPoJo, Ibbetson Street Magazine, and many others. Pamela was a Reader for Lily Poetry Review 2019, Art Editor Lily Poetry Review 2018-2019, and won Two Poetry-In-Place Awards for the city of Newton, Massachusetts. Her poem “Working the Child at Risk Hotline” received an Honorable Mention in the Common Ground Review Spring 2021. She was on the poet’s committee for the first National Baseball Poetry Festival, and co-edited Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press, 2023).
The reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.

Readings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.

Registration suggested

Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; The Public Library of Brookline; Multilingual Reading of her poems
2024-02-26 18:00 - 19:30 | The Public Library of Brookline, 361 Washington Street,, Brookline, MA, 02445, United States
Join us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Brookline poet Amy Lowell
The New England Poetry Club, The Public Library of Brookline, along with the Brookline Commission for the Arts, will celebrate Amy Lowell’s life and work with an introduction to her poetry and readings of her poems in the original English, as well as translations into other languages.

Program:
Video Introduction
Introduction to Amy Lowell
Multilingual Reading
Reception.
The program will feature poets from Brookline and the Greater Boston area, including current Brookline poet laureate Jennifer Barber and previous Brookline poets laureate. Mary Buchinger of the New England Poetry Club will present Amy Lowell.
A full list of presenters will be available soon.
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Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary: A Tribute to Amy Lowell at All She Wrote Books
2024-03-07 19:00 - 20:30 | All She Wrote Books, 75 Washington St,, Somerville, MA, 02143, United States
On Thursday, March 7, at 7 pm, poets CD Collins, Melissa Nilles, and D Donna will read and talk about Amy Lowell’s poetry, influence, and legacy in the casual and welcoming atmosphere of All She Wrote Books, an intersectional feminist and queer bookstore in East Somerville. The bookstore is accessible to those who need disability accommodations.
Please register for the event at the Eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-a-tribute-to-amy-lowell-all-she-wrote-books-tickets-835993407787?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

Getting There: 3 min walk from the East Somerville Green Line T stop, 14 min walk from the Sullivan Square Orange line T stop.

Kentucky native CD Collins follows the storytelling traditions of the South, both as a solo artist and when accompanied by musicians. Collins was named the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Malden, Massachusetts and has been selected as a Red-Letter Poet by Steven Ratiner. Collins is the author of Blue Land, a collection of short stories (First Trade Edition, Polyho Press); a poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Severed Head (Ibbetson Street Press); and the novel Afterheat (Empty City Press). She has appeared at Berklee College of Music, the Boston Public Library, Boston’s ICA, the New York Public Library, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
Melissa Nilles is a musician, composer, writer, poet, expressive arts therapist, and licensed mental health counselor living in Somerville, MA with her partner and the extraordinary Siberian cat Prince Siddhartha. Nilles is the owner of a small private psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy practice in Somerville serving creative people going through life/career transitions, LGBTQ+ individuals, or people with ADHD, anxiety, or trauma. She is the frontwoman (lead vocalist, lyricist, and keyboardist) of Boston-based band Ruby Grove (2022- now), which is a New England Music Award-nominated multi-genre indie alternative musical project inspired by trip-hop, soul, indietronica, and indie rock.
D Donna (they/any) has spent the last five years basking in the warm light of Boston’s queer, trans, and poet communities. They have not, in all that time, figured out how to write an introductory bio. But they love reading poems, and they love all of you, and that’ll be enough for now.

Four Poets at the Waltham Historical Society
2024-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Waltham Historical Society, 260 Grove St., Waltham, MA, 02453, United States
Prepare for a unique tapestry of history and verse! The Waltham Historical Society and the New England Poetry Club join forces on March 12th, 7:00 PM, to explore Waltham’s rich spirit, and more, through the voices of:

Barbara de la Cuesta, poet and novelist, weaving Waltham tales that transcend time.
Owen Lewis, Professor of Psychiatry and Narrative Medicine, bridging the gap between personal home and Berkshires history.
Jessica Lucci, local author and poet, capturing the essence of Waltham in lyrical strokes.
Gail Thomas, poet, painting vivid Swift River Valley portraits with words.

This captivating evening promises to be a journey through the past, present, and possibilities of diverse Massachusetts locales. Free and open to the public.
Barbara de la Cuesta taught and worked as a journalist in South America, and is now a teacher of English as a Second Language and Spanish. Out of this experience came her two prize winning novels, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Award in 2007, and Rosa, winner of the Driftless Novella Prize from Brain Mill Press in 2017. She has also published two collections of poetry with Finishing Line Press, as well as two novels, The Mists, and Henrietta Rose. Her collection of short stories, The Place Where Judas Lost his Boots, has recently won The Brighthorse Prize for short fiction.
Adam’s Chair is a peek into the City of Waltham, past, present—the future perhaps represented by the shuttle Columbia orbiting above on the day of April 11, 1981, when the book opens with an old French Canadian, Alcide Arsenault, retired from the Mill, entering Mt. Feake Cemetery, whose neighborhoods reflect the city’s own, just before dawn. Priscilla, descendant of the city’s founders, college drop-out, Socialist since thirteen, now home health aide, sets out on her rounds on her bicycle. Thus the day begins: A harpsichord arrives at city hall. A parachutist lands in Leary field. Participants in the daycenter are oriented to reality and the mayor visits to celebrate Adie Blakey’s hundredth birthday, the shuttle sends down messages …
Owen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry and three chapbooks, most recently Knock-knock. Field Light, was a Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBook Award and a 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards. best man was the recipient of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Recent prizes include the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize and the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry/Arts & Letters. He is also recipient of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine.
The epicenter of Field Light is the back porch of “The Dormouse,” 1922, home of Peggy Cresson, daughter of Daniel Chester French. In a photo she sits with her husband and the granddaughter-in-law of Harriet Beecher Stowe, a neighbor. The author, in 2018, sits on the same porch of the same house, his home for nearly thirty years, pondering that photo. He begins to question how one can know history, discovering personal connections to the history surrounding him. The book weaves a personal telling of Berkshire history, spanning the years when the land was “owned” by Munsie, to the trial in 1782 in Great Barrington that freed enslaved people of Massachusetts, to the years of the socially elite and beyond. In this historical collage, the writers, artists, musicians, and even some physicians, of the Berkshires speak.
Jessica Lucci is a poet, steampunk, and historical fiction author who writes about modern issues while maintaining historic integrity. She makes her home in Waltham, Mass., where she serves as president of the Waltham Arts Council, and on the board of directors of the Waltham Museum and High Tech Waltham. She also helps organize faires and festivals in Waltham, such as Waltham Pride, and Kaleidoscope. She was the featured artist for her poetry at Watch City Arts, May, 2023.
Her haiku were included in an installation commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Minuteman Bikeway. More haiku have been installed in store windows in Arlington and Lexington. Her poetry was included in the “Moody Street Art Walk” in 2023. Her works include the steampunk novellas Waltham Watch and Salem Switch, the soon-to-be published historical fiction novella Triangle House, and the poetry collections How Can I Steal a Purse and Graveyard Shift.
Gail 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, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Cumberland River Review, and Mezzo Cammin. Among her awards are the Seven Kitchens Press award for Trail of Roots, the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read” for Waving Back. 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 works with immigrant and refugee communities in Western Massachusetts.
No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley is about the four towns and seven villages that were drowned and the 3,500 people who were displaced to build the Quabbin Reservoir. Thomas interviewed elders who grew up in the Valley, and their voices are represented throughout the book which has been used as a text in college courses. From the book’s forward: “Sometimes a work of poetry is an act of reclamation as it is in No Simple Wilderness. With these poems, Thomas attains a seamlessness not only between past and present but between personal and public, a seamlessness that is succinct, powerful, and entirely essential.” – Jane Brox

Fruitlands: Maru Colbert, Gary Duehr, A.M. Juster
2024-03-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Fruitlands Museum, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA, 01451
Maru Colbert is an engineering professor and performer. Her collegiate research and teaching span three engineering fields and she has a K12 STEM focus on chemistry and mathematics. Her spoken, written and choreographed works were featured in Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto, Windsor, Montreal, Amsterdam, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston. Her African and Native American culture, intrinsic motivation and daily reflection inform her writing, singing, acting, instrumentation and design. Being a double winner with her Ekphrastic entries for the MA Poetry Festival in 2021 was a great honor. Whatever she presents in any art form is, ultimately, “what her soul releases”.
Gary Duehr has taught writing for local universities including BU, Lesley University and Tufts. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the LEF Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His books of poetry include Point Blank (In Case of Emergency Press), Winter Light (Four Way Books) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press,). His children’s book in verse is Felicia the Ferret and the Atom Smasher from Thurston Howl Publications.
A.M. Juster is the poetry editor for Plough. His poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review and The Hudson Review. He is the only three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and has won the Barnstone Translation Prize, the Richard Wilbur Award, and four different prizes of the New England Poetry Club. His eleven books include Horace’s Satires (U Penn Press 2008,) Tibullus’ Elegies (Oxford U Press 2012), Aldhelm’s Riddles (U Toronto Press 2016) and Wonder and Wrath (Paul Dry Books 2020). Paul Dry Books will publish his first children’s book, Girlatee, and W.W. Norton will publish his translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere.
The reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.

Readings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults, seniors, students, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.

Registration suggested

Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Scholars Carl Rollyson and Melissa Bradshaw discuss the life and work of Amy Lowell.
2024-03-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Welcome! You are invited to join a Zoom meeting Amy Lowell scholars Melissa Bradshaw and Carl Rollyson. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
An award-winning Amy Lowell scholar, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw is editing both print and digital editions of the poet’s never-before collected letters. Professor Bradshaw suggests that she will provide some interesting—sometimes conflict-ridden—details of events in the early years of the New England Poetry Club when Lowell was its first president.
Professor Carl Rollyson is the author of the recently published biography, Amy Lowell Anew. His book presents details of Lowell’s unconventional life and critical reassessment of Lowell’s work and legacy.
Carl Rollyson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, at Baruch College, CUNY, has published fourteen biographies, including Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography and Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries. In 2020, he published a two volume-biography, The Life of William Faulkner, and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. Podcast: A Life in Biography: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson; website: carlrollyson.com.
Just published: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1. Volume 2 is forthcoming in August 2024. Also forthcoming: The Making of Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner On and Off the Page: Essays in Biographical Criticism, and Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero.
Melissa Bradshaw teaches writing, pedagogy, and literary and cultural studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform our understanding of powerful public women. She has published extensively on Amy Lowell, co-editing a volume of her poems as well as a volume of scholarly essays about her. Her book, Amy Lowell, Diva Poet won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. She has also published on poets Edith Sitwell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov, and on divas more generally. She is currently working on The Selected Letters of Amy Lowell, and directs the Amy Lowell Letters Project, a critical digital edition of Lowell’s collected letters, for which she was awarded an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication. Read more about the letters project at melissabradshaw.org/amy-lowell-letters-project/

Medford Historical Society & Museum: Denise Bergman, Kevin Gallagher, Max Heinegg, Scott Ruescher
2024-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Medford Historical Society & Museum, 10 Governors Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Join Medford High School English teacher and poet Max Heinegg and three other New England Poetry Club poets for a night of poetry and song. Please note that seating is limited: register here for free tickets.
Max Heinegg is the author of Going There (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023) and Good Harbor (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), winner of the Paul Nemser Poetry Prize. He has won the Sidney Lanier Poetry Award, the Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize, and his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Max will perform some classic poems (from Keats to Frost) that he adapted into song, giving a brief talk about each poem and the way in which a great lyric can be read or sung.
Denise Bergman is the author of five poetry books. The Shape of the Keyhole is about a woman falsely accused and hanged for murder. Three Hands None unravels assault and its aftermath. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea dismantles the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty. The Telling unfolds a child refugee’s lifelong secret. Seeing Annie Sullivan explores the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher.
Kevin Gallagher, a poet, publisher, and political economist living in Greater Boston, will present poems from his recent books And Yet it Moves and The Wild Goose. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics.
Scott Ruescher is the author of Waiting for the Light to Change (Prolific Press, 2017) and Above the Fold (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming). His recent poems appear in About Place, Ohio Today, Pangyrus, and the Common Ground, Latin-American Literary, and Naugatuck River reviews.

Poetry at the Manse: Martha Collins, Merryn Rutledge, Timothy Gager
2024-04-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Old Manse, 269 Monument St, Concord, MA, 01742
Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons.
Extend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River.
April poets:
Martha 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. She has co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed, 2023), and co-edited, with Kevin Prufer, Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf, 2017). Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com.
Bestselling author Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his latest novel, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, MA from 2001 to 2018, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over one thousand works of fiction and poetry published, eighteen nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work, with 150 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager. Timothy served as the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review for ten years, and was the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Merryn Rutledge is a poet, reviewer, and teacher of poetry as craft. Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed (Kelsay Books, 2023) features poems about her forebears in the American South, challenges like grief, and reflections on the costs of racism. Her poems have appeared widely in journals throughout the world and in several anthologies, such as All Shall Be Well (Amythest Press, 2023), an anthology celebrating the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. Merryn’s reviews of new poetry books by women have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly and Pedestal, for example. After earning a Masters and BA with honors in English from Smith College, Merryn taught literature, writing, and film studies at Phillips Exeter Academy. In a second career, she earned a doctorate in leadership and led a national leadership development consulting firm. During that period, essays based on her field research on leadership were published in the peer-reviewed journals and in books. Merryn enjoys working for social justice causes, singing, dancing, and playing on the shore near her home south of Boston.

Meet Our Poets: Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems & Poems They Love
2024-04-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Somerville Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz, Somerville Armory 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA, 02143, United States
Meet Our Poets: Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems and Poems They Love
This once-in-a-lifetime reading includes the largest array of Somerville poets ever assembled. More than 30 Somerville poets will each be reading one of their own poems and a poem they love by a poet of their choice. The poets include Jennifer Badot, Simeon Berry, David Blair, Zack Bond, Elizabeth Callahan, Parama Chattopadhyay, Jennifer Clarvoe, Linda Conte, Linda Haviland Conte, Donna Donna, Gary Duehr, Kirk Etherton, Michael Franco, Bridget Seley Galway, Seth Garcia, Doug Holder, Katherine Hollander, Lucy Holstedt, Gloria Mindock, Tam Lin Neville, Pat Peterson, Denise Provost, Andrea Read, Hilary Sallick, Lloyd Schwartz, Michael Steffen, Janaka Stucky, Patrick Sylvain, Gilmore Tamny, Christie Towers, Anna Warrock, and Dan Wuenschel.
This free event, organized by Somerville Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz with the Somerville Arts Council, will take place at the Somerville Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, on Sunday, April 28, at 5:30 PM.
It is free and fully accessible.

Poetry at the Manse: Sara Epstein, Denise Provost, Gary Whited
2024-05-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Old Manse, 269 Monument St, Concord, MA, 01742
(L to R: Gary Whited, Sara Epstein, Denise Provost)
Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons.
Extend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River.
May poets:
Dr. Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices, including writing, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Amethyst Review, Chest Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Plainsongs, museum of americana, among others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review. Bar of Rest is her first book of poetry.
Denise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (Ibbetson Street Press, 2019) and City of Stories (Červená Barva Press, 2021). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Constellations, Muddy River Poetry Review, qarrtsiluni, Quadrille, Poetry Porch, Red Eft, Sonnet Scroll, Sanctuary, Light Quarterly, and in Bagel Bards anthologies. Twice Pushcart-nominated, Provost received the 2012 Best Love Sonnet award from the 2012 Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition, and the New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022. Provost served from 2006-2021 in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Gary Whited is a poet, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled, Having Listened, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award, and in 2015 was translated into Russian and a bilingual edition was published. His new book, Being, There includes new poems along with his translation of the ancient Greek fragments of Parmenides from the 5th century BCE. This book dances between the poetic voice of Parmenides and the poetic remembrances of a young life on a prairie cattle ranch. His poems have appeared in journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, Comstock Review, The Wayfarer, Poetry Daily and The Red Letters.

Sophie Cabot Black Geometry of the Restless Herd. Poetry
2024-05-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Brookline Public Library, Coolidge Corner, 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline, MA, 02446, United States
Poet 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 domain, Black conjures fields of harvest and resurrection, of wagers and outcomes—animals to keep, and those to send to slaughter. Here, both singular voices and polyvocal choruses ask, Who has the real power, and how are we to survive the violence we do to one another?
Cooper Canyon Press
Sophie Cabot Black has three poetry collections from Graywolf Press, The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, The Exchange. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. Cooper Canyon Press publishes Geometry of the Restless Herd in 2024.

Longfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
2024-06-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
Kick off the summer with a celebration of emerging poets! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. Students will read their winning poems at this ceremony, followed by a celebration on the lawn.
The contest aims to encourage and celebrate young poets in exploring their craft, and is co-sponsored by the Frank Buda Memorial Fund, New England Poetry Club, Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, and National Park Service.
The reading will be held on the East Lawn, which is wheelchair accessible via gravel pathways. Accessible parking spaces are located at the end of the driveway. Learn more about site accessibility here.
In the case of inclement weather, the reading will be moved indoors.

2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
2024-06-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
(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 founded the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Harvard Square which became, with its weekly readings, a center of poetry life, bringing national and international writers to read in a lively informal atmosphere.
As an activist with her late husband, the artist Michael Mazur and others Massachusetts writers and artists, she co-founded, in 1968, Artists Against Racism and the War, and later they were activists for a Nuclear Freeze. Blacksmith House presented benefit readings for, among other issues, the fight for AIDS research.
Her first collection, Nightfire (David Godine Publishers) was published in 1978, followed by The Pose of Happiness (Godine, 1986), The Common (University of Chicago , 1995); They Can’t Take That Away from Me (Chicago, 2001) finalist for the National Book Award; Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems (Chicago, 2005), winner of The Massachusetts Book Prize and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize; Figures in a Landscape (2011); and Forbidden City (Chicago, 2016). Land’s End: New and Selected Poems was published in 2020. Her poems have been widely anthologized, including in several Pushcart Prize Anthologies, the Best American Poetry, Robert Pinsky’s Essential Pleasures. A graduate of Smith College, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was for 20 years Distinguished Senior Writer in Residence in Emerson College’s graduate program and now teaches in Boston University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown where she has served for many years on the Writing Committee.

Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Maru Colbert, Hilary Sallick, Mark Stevick
2024-07-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Magazine Beach Park Nature Center, 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02139, 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 has a K12 STEM focus on chemistry and mathematics. Her spoken, written and choreographed works were featured in Denver, Los Angeles, Toronto, Windsor, Montreal, Amsterdam, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston. Her African and Native American culture, intrinsic motivation and daily reflection inform her writing, singing, acting, instrumentation and design. Being a double winner with her Ekphrastic entries for the MA Poetry Festival in 2021 was a great honor. Whatever she presents in any art form is, ultimately, “what her soul releases”.
Hilary Sallick is the author of three poetry collections: love is a shore (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023), which is on the long-list for the Massachusetts Book Award in poetry; Asking the Form (Cervena Barva Press, 2020); and Winter Roses (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her poems appear in appear or are forthcoming in Permafrost, Potomac Review, Jet Fuel Review, Notre Dame Review, Ibbetson Street, Small Orange, and other journals. A teacher with a longtime focus on adult literacy, she lives and works in Somerville, and she serves on the Board of the New England Poetry Club. (www.hilarysallick.com)
Mark Wacome Stevick grew up in Amish country, Pennsylvania. He came north for college and got his master’s in creative writing from BU. Now he teaches at Gordon College and produces the Five Ponds Creative Writing Festival and the Princemere Poetry Prize. His poems have won awards from Wundor Editions, Literal Latte, The Shine Journal, SWINK, Wild Plum, and The Baltimore Review. A chapbook, Local Habitations, won the Wil Mills Award and was published by Moonstone Press (2022). His plays include Cry Innocent and Goodnight, Captain White, which run seasonally in Salem, and The Sheep Mysteries, which is performed in Orvieto, Italy, where he sometimes leads a month-long workshop on ekphrasis. He’s a recent-ish StorySlam winner at The Moth in Boston, and he lives with his wife and kids in Salem.

Celebrating Amy Lowell: Garden Poetry from a Poet Gardener
2024-07-20 16:00 - 17:30 | MA
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 will follow, where all are welcome to share poems from, in, or about the garden.
The Growing Center is fully accessible.
(In case of rain, the event will be rescheduled to July 21st from 6 to 7 pm.)
Jennifer Clarvoe’s first book, Invisible Tender (Fordham, 2000), won the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The Rome Prize in Literature supported writing for her second book, Counter-Amores (University of Chicago, 2011). She has held fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference and the James Merrill House. Retired from Kenyon College, where she taught for almost thirty years, she lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has completed a new manuscript of poems, PIANO PIANO.
Lloyd Schwartz is Somerville’s Poet Laureate, Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at UMass Boston, editor of Elizabeth Bishop, and music and arts critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and WBUR’s website. He’s been awarded NEA, Guggenheim, and Academy of American Poets fellowships and the Pushcart and Daniel Varoujan Prizes in poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. His poems have been selected for The Best and The Best of the Best American Poetry. His latest book is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems.
Denise Provost Besides long service in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Denise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (2019) and City of Stories (2021). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, Light Quarterly, qarrtsiluni, and Poetry Porch. Provost received the Maria C. Faust Sonnet 2012 Competition Best Love Sonnet award, and New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022.

James Baldwin: One Hundred Years
2024-08-02 18:30 - 20:30 | The Little Crêpe Café, 102 Oxford Street, Cambridge, 02138
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 Dany Joachim.
Photo Credit: Kate True & Steven Flyte

Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
2024-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
The Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and beyond.
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 published and translated into eleven languages. Her recent book, Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Glass Lyre Press, 2023), won the International Impact Award, the Speak-up Talk Radio International Firebird Award, the Independent Press Award, the Book Fest Book Award, and the Outstanding Creator Award in the following categories/Awarded: First Place in Current Events, First Place in War & Peace Literature, Second place in Poetry, Second Place in Grief and Coping, Third Place in Best Non-Fiction and two Honorable Mentions in Best Writing Non-Fiction and Best Quote. Gloria’s book ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021) won several book awards and was translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and published by Alma Press in Belgrade in 2022. Gloria’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), and KGB Lit, to name just a few. Gloria was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018. For more information about Gloria Mindock, visit gloriamindock.com.
The program will include brief readings by a group of area poets published by Červená Barva Press.
In case of inclement weather, the reading will be held in an accessible, nearby indoor location.

Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
2024-08-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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, Poetry, The Sun, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry and a Stegner Fellowship. Liz works as a naturalist and field assistant at home on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and is Editor-in-Chief of Broadsided. www.ebradfield.com
Kevin Goodan was born in Montana and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation where his stepfather and brothers are tribal members. Goodan earned his BA from the University of Montana and worked as a firefighter for ten years with the U.S. Forest Service before receiving his MFA from University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2004. He has taught at the University of Connecticut and has served as Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University. He currently lives in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.

FAWC + NEPC: New England Poetry Club at the Fine Arts Work Center
2024-08-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA, 02657, 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 (Lily Poetry Review Press), selected as a Massachusetts Book Awards 2023 Honor Book. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals online and in print, and in Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits by Barbara E. Cohen (Provincetown Arts Press). Cynthia is associate poetry editor at Pangyrus. She lives and writes in Provincetown, Massachusetts. (www.cynthiabargar.com)
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, Poetry, The Sun, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize in Lesbian Poetry and a Stegner Fellowship. Liz works as a naturalist and field assistant at home on Cape Cod, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and is Editor-in-Chief of Broadsided. www.ebradfield.com
Christine Jones lives in Orleans, MA where she and her husband can be found swimming in their shark mitigating wetsuits all year round. She’s the author of Now Calls Me Daughter (Nixes Mate Review, 2022) and Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020), also co-editor of the anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Books, 2020). She’s the associate editor of Lily Poetry Review and co-founder of the Lily on the Cove Manuscript Clinic and Retreat. Her poetry can be found in numerous anthologies and journals in print and online.

Longfellow Summer Festival: Poetry in Translation with Kymm Coveney and J. Kates
2024-08-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138
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 by Coffee House Press in 2026. Several poems have been published online, and Section V “De Quincey’s Botany” is forthcoming in The Georgia Review‘s fall issue. Her non-fiction translations include Forest Bathing, by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, and Tokyo Sketchbook, by Amaia Arrazola, both with Tuttle Publishing.
J. Kates, a minor poet and a literary translator, has published three chapbooks of his own poems and two full books, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books) and Places of Permanent Shade (Accents Publishing). He has been granted three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, has translated a dozen books of Russian and French poetry, and edited two anthologies of Russian translations. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association and a co-director of Zephyr Press, he is also the co-translator of six books of Latin American and Spanish poetry.

Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Jane Attanucci, Charlot Lucien, Lawrence Kessenich
2024-09-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Magazine Beach Park Nature Center, 668 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02139, 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 graduate school. Upon retirement from college teaching, she studied poetry at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Attanucci is the author of a chapbook, First Mud (Finishing Line, 2015) and a full-length collection, A River Within Spills Light (Turning Point, 2021). Her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Third Wednesday, Thrush Poetry Journal and Writer’s Almanac among others. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Lawrence Kessenich won the 2010 Strokestown International Poetry Prize in Ireland. His poetry has been published in Sewanee Review, Atlanta Review, Poetry Ireland Review and many other magazines. He has two poetry chapbooks, Pearland Strange News, and three full-length poetry books, Before Whose Glory, Age of Wonders, and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing. Three of his poems were read on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac. Kessenich has also published essays, including one read on NPR’s This I Believe, and has had plays produced at festivals in Boston, New York and Durango, Colorado. He has published one novel, Cinnamon Girl, and his second novel, The Further Adventures of Daisy Miller will be published in the fall of 2024.
Charlot Lucien is a storyteller, poet, and visual artist who resides in Massachusetts. His writings have been published in various anthologies and publications, including This Land, My Beloved (A Trilingual Anthology of Contemporary Haitian Poetry), Liberation Poetry, Compost Magazine, Revolution, Regard, Anthologie des poètes français 2022, Poètes à la Une, and Tanbou Magazine. His poetry book La tentation de l’autre rive (The Temptation of Other Shores) was released in 2013 by Trilingual Press. As the founder of the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts, he has prefaced the art anthology Migrating Colors: Haitian Art in New England, released in 2018.
Several of his poems express his grappling with expressions of multiple identities as a Haitian living in the US, while acknowledging the influences of his motherland and a poetic education initially influenced by Haitian and French literature. Other poems or writings reflect his attempts at giving meaning, through poetry, to the historical roots of the struggles for civil rights and racial harmony.
In his regular line of work, Charlot Lucien is a public health manager for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a history lecturer at the OLLI Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
