Events

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

The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event, the first of two, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us! DeWitt Henry’s books are Restless for Words: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2023); a U.S. edition of Foundlings: ... Read more

The NEPC is delighted to return to Mass Audubon’s Magazine Beach Park Nature Center in Cambridge. This event, the second of two for 2025, is free of charge and the venue is accessible. Registration is requested: https://www.massaudubon.org/programs/magazine-beach/97530-nature-poetry-readings. Please join us! Karen Klein began a haiku/senryu writing practice, published in Modern Haiku & Frogpond,  then published ... Read more

The NEPC’s 2025 season at The Old Manse in Concord, Mass., concludes on September 28. 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

The Poetry Society of Vermont and New England Poetry Club are excited to announce our first collaborative event! We’ll present morning readings and an afternoon workshop on Saturday, October 4, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm, at the All Souls Church at the West Village Meetinghouse, West Brattleboro, Vermont. The day begins with readings by NEPC members Richard Michelson and Gail Thomas, and PSOV member ... Read more