Events

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. This 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 ... Read more

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. To 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. Pamela Gemme is an internationally published ... Read more

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. Make 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 ... Read more

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. Robert 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 ... Read more

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. Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American ... Read more

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. Make 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 ... Read more

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. Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. Nidia Hernández is a poet, translator, editor, poetry ... Read more

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. Make 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 ... Read more