Events

The New England Poetry Club is delighted to present a reading by three poets at the Westwood (Mass.) Public Library! The reading will happen on Sunday, January 26, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. The poets will be introduced by Lynne Viti, Westwood Poet Laureate and a member of the NEPC Advisory Board. This event is free ... Read more

Poets at Large will be at The Bradley Playhouse Theater, 30 Front Street in Putnam, CT, on February 8th, 2025, from 7-10 p.m. in Passion & Pulse:  Love Poems and Rock Music, with special guests The Vig, a Worcester band.  Tickets for this special concert/spoken word smash-up that will close out Fire & Ice Weekend are $25.00 ($30.00 at the door).  ... Read more

Join us for Third Thursday Poetry! We have a 15-minute featured poet, a time to socialize with wine and cheese, and then an open mic. Before COVID, for more than fifteen years, Third Thursday Poetry was hosted in Gallery 55 in Natick Center. The founder, Molly Saccardo, re-launched the series at Ten Trees Books last ... Read more

Please join the New England Poetry Club on February 23, 2025, as we partner with the Worcester County Poetry Association for a reading at the Salisbury House! The reading, beginning at 3:00 pm, is free and open to the public. The Salisbury House is located at 61 Harvard Street in Worcester, Mass. The building has ... Read more

Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish---to let others vanish---without leaving a verbal record. — Edward Hirsch POETRY THE ART OF WORDS 2024-25 SEASON SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH | 1:30PM Plymouth Center for the Arts ... Read more

Join the New England Poetry Club on March 23, as we travel to the Menino Arts Center, in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood! The reading begins at 2:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The Menino Arts Center, located 26 Central Avenue, is an accessible venue, with a wheelchair ramp into the building ... Read more

Come to the Blacksmith House in Harvard Square for the launch of Grief's Apostrophe (Beltway Editions) by NEPC President Steven Ratiner! He will be joined by Jonathan Aaron, reading from Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon). All are welcome to this accessible venue.

The NEPC is partnering with the Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain Branch, for a National Poetry Month kickoff! The reading, on Saturday, April 5 at 3:00 pm, will be free and open to the public. The JP Branch, at 30 South Street, is an accessible venue. Eleanor Kedney is the author of three books: Twelve ... Read more

Please join us for the Danielle Legros Georges Memorial Reading honoring Danielle’s life and work this Sunday, May 4, from 1:00 until 5:00 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston. The event is sponsored by the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, in partnership with the ICA/Boston and the New England Poetry ... Read more

Join the New England Poetry Club on May 10, as we return to the Menino Arts Center, in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The reading begins at 2:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. The Menino Arts Center, located 26 Central Avenue, is an accessible ... Read more