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SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Jennifer Martelli\, Roman Johnson\, Anastasia Vassos
DESCRIPTION: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 and an elevator to the second floor. We’re grateful to Home Scholars of Boston for their generous sponsorship. \nRoman Johnson\, PhD  is a writer and scientist from Memphis\, TN. He is a Master of Fine Arts scholar in poetry at Brown University. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham\, a M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College. He is the co-founder of the New England Hoodoo Society.  He is the current Radical Reversal Poet in Residence at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston\, Massachusetts. He is the winner of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press and other prizes and fellowships.  \nJennifer Martelli has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Monson Arts\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, Poetry\, Best of the Net Anthology\, Braving the Body Anthology\, Verse Daily\, Plume\, The Tahoma Literary Review\, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree\, The Queen of Queens\, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award\, and My Tarantella\, which was also shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and named finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Jennifer Martelli is co-poetry editor for MER. www.jennmartelli.com \nThe poems of Anastasia Vassos have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best New Poets. She is the author of Nostos (2023)\, which was a finalist in Two Sylvias’ and Headlight Review’s Chapbook Contests\, and Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (2021). Her poems appear online as well as in print journals and anthologies; find her work in RHINO\, Whale Road Review\, Thrush\, Comstock Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems about the Greek-American diaspora have been translated into Greek. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review\, speaks three languages\, and lives in Boston.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-jennifer-martelli-roman-johnson-anastasia-vassos/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry the Art of Words Reading Series
DESCRIPTION: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 \nPOETRY THE ART OF WORDS\n2024-25 SEASON\nSUNDAY\, MARCH 9TH | 1:30PM\nPlymouth Center for the Arts | 11 North Street\, Plymouth\, MA \nMatthew E. Henry (MEH) is the author of six poetry collections\, most recently\, said the Frog to the scorpion (Harbor Editions\, 2024). He is editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal and an associate editor at Rise Up Review. MEH’s poetry and prose have been published in ASP Bulletin\, Had\, Massachusetts Review\, Mayday\, Ploughshares\, Redivider\, Shenandoah\, Terrain\, and The Worcester Review\, among others. MEH is an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him at www.MEHPoeting.com\, writing about education\, race\, religion\, and burning oppressive systems to the ground. \nSara Letourneau’s debut poetry collection\, Wild Gardens\, is out now through Kelsay Books. She’s also a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services and the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield\, Massachusetts. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Recent and forthcoming work can be found in Gyroscope Review\, Rituals\, Remington Review\, Nixes Mate Review\, and Amethyst Review\, among others. Sara lives in Foxboro\, Massachusetts. \nDoors open at 1:15. Features begin at 1:30\, followed by an intermission for book sales and signings and closing with an open mic. The event is always free (though a suggested donation of $5 is always appreciated)\, open to the public\, and handicapped accessible.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-the-art-of-words-reading-series/
LOCATION:Plymouth Center for the Arts\, 11 NORTH STREET\, PLYMOUTH\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC in Worcester: Carla Schwartz\, Carolyn Oliver\, Anne Elezabeth Pluto
DESCRIPTION: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 limited access\, with steps leading to the entrance. \nFilmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward\, ed.) and in her collections Signs of Marriage (Finishing Line)\, Intimacy with the Wind (Finishing Line)\, and Mother\, One More Thing (Turning Point). Learn more at  carlapoet.com\, or find her on X\, YouTube\, Threads\, BlueSky\, or Instagram all @cb99videos. Recent and future curations include Banyan Review\, Cutthroat\, Contemporary Haibun Online\, Gone Lawn\, great weather for MEDIA\, MacQueen’s Quinterly\, Modern Haiku\, New-Verse News\, One Art Haiku Anthology\, Paterson Literary Review\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Sheila-Na-Gig\, Spank the Carp\, Stone Poetry Quarterly\, Triggerfish Critical Review\, The MacGuffin\, Worcester Review\, and Leon. Schwartz’s poem “Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother” won the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize. \nCarolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre\, 2024); Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press\, 2022)\, selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry; and three chapbooks\, including\, most recently\, Night Ocean (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2023)\, which was selected for the Rane Arroyo Series. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Daily\, TriQuarterly\, Copper Nickel\, Image\, Consequence\, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by Mount Auburn Cemetery’s artist-in-residence program. Her honors include the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review\, the NEPC’s E. E. Cummings Prize\, and the Frank O’Hara Prize from The Worcester Review. Born in Buffalo and raised in Ohio\, she now lives with her family in Massachusetts. \nAnne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn\, NY before it was cool. She is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge\, MA.  She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review and Nixes Mate Books.  She has two full-length collections The Deepest Part of Dark\, Unlikely Stories Press\, NOLA (2020)\, and How Many Miles to Babylon?\, Lily Books (2023).
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-in-worcester-carla-schwartz-carolyn-oliver-anne-elezabeth-pluto/
LOCATION:Salisbury House\, 61 Harvard Street\, Worcester\, MA\, 01609\, United States
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Poetry
DESCRIPTION: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 month. \nThe reading will start promptly at 6:45 p.m. Our featured poet will be NEPC Board Member Lynne Viti\, inaugural Poet Laureate of Westwood\, Massachusetts\, and faculty emerita at Wellesley College. Her most recent full-length poetry collection is The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press\, 2022). Her poem\, “No Registration Required\,” was named poem of the year in the 2024 Hale Education Poetry Contest. She was selected for the 2023 Miriam Chaikin/Westbeth Artists Poetry Award and third place in the 2023 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. She facilitates a poets in the schools program in Westwood\, as well as a poetry workshop for adults at the Westwood Public Library. \nBook signing to follow. The event is free and open to the public\, but registration is advised.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/third-thursday-poetry/
LOCATION:Ten Trees Books\, 22 Main Street\, Natick\, MA\, 01760\, United States
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SUMMARY:PASSION & PULSE: A Night of Love Poems and Rock Music
DESCRIPTION: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).  This event is a fundraiser for The Bradley Playhouse Theater and Poets at Large\, both area non-profits bringing the arts to Northeast Connecticut. \nThe evening will consist of several 20-minute sets of music by The Vig\, interspersed with open mic poems/spoken word performances all about love: the good\, the bad\, and the ugly. Beverages are available. \nOrder tickets through the Bradley’s website or at their Box Office at 30 Front Street\, Putnam\, CT. \nContact karen.warinsky@gmail.com if you are interested in being in the open mic. \nThe Vanilla Bean and The Putnam Business Association are assisting with this event.  Poets at Large is a project of Windham Arts and is ADA-compliant.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/passion-pulse-a-night-of-love-poems-and-rock-music/
LOCATION:The Bradley Playhouse Theater\, 30 Front St.\, Putnam\, CT\, 06260\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEPC at Westwood: Cindy Ellen Hill\, Fred Gerhard\, B. Fulton Jennes
DESCRIPTION: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 and open to the public. \nPLEASE NOTE: the Library building itself opens at 2 pm. We will begin the reading as promptly as possible. \nFred Gerhard’s book\, Drifting to “Hello” (Khotso Publishing)\, arrived in 2023. His chapbook\, Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham (Local Gems Poetry Press)\, came out in 2023\, with a second edition from Petronella Press in 2024.  His poems have appeared in Amethyst Review\, Entropy Magazine\, Friends Journal\, Harpy Hybrid Review\, Pif Magazine\, POETiCA REViEW\, and other magazines and anthologies. His poems have been in various galleries\, including the Fitchburg Art Museum\, and have been voiced by actor Kirk Lawrence-Howard on YouTube. He is one of the 2023 winners of the Poetry in the Pines contest in New Hampshire. And he is the 2024 poetry winner for Art on the Trails in Massachusetts. He is an editor for Quabbin Quills and for Smoky Quartz. And he is one of the founders of the New Dawn Writers’ Group in Ashburnham where he leads monthly poetry workshops and hosts open mic nights.  \nCindy Ellen Hill is the author of Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy (Wild Dog Press 2024)\, Elegy for the Trees (Kelsay Books 2022)\, Wild Earth and Other Sonnets (Antrim Press 2021). Her collection Love in a Time of Climate Change is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press 2025. Primarily a formalist\, her poetry has been included in Treehouse Literary Review\, Flint Hills Review\, Anacapa Review\, and The Lyric. Her essays on sonnet elements have recently appeared in American Poetry Review and Unlikely Stories. Hill holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, where her creative thesis was a novel in sonnet verse. She writes\, plays fiddle\, and is obsessed with gardening in Middlebury\, Vermont. \n  \nB. Fulton Jennes is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies\, including CALYX\, Comstock Review\, Extreme Sonnets\, Rust and Moth\, SWWIM\, and Tupelo Quarterly. In 2022\, “Glyphs of a Gentle Going” was awarded the Lascaux Prize; another poem\, “Father to Son\,” won the 2023 New Millennium Award. Her collection Blinded Birds received the 2022 International Book Award for a poetry chapbook. FLOWN—an elegy-in-verse to her late sister—was published by Porkbelly Press in April 2024. Jennes is poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield\, CT\, where she directs the Poetry in the Garden reading series each summer and served for many years as poet-in-residence at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-at-westwood-cindy-ellen-hill-fred-gerhard-b-fulton-jennes/
LOCATION:Westwood Public Library\, 660 High Street\, Westwood\, MA\, 02090\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter Solstice Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join NEPC member Jennifer Martelli\, who will be reading from her new collection\, PSYCHIC PARTY UNDER THE BOTTLE TREE\, with poets Jennifer Jean and Sara Letourneau on Saturday\, December 28\, from 6-8 pm\, as part of the Open Doors Reading Series. 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, MA. \nAn open mic will follow along with a wine & cheese reception. \nFree and open to the public. \nAll attendees must be fully vaccinated. \nThe venue is not wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/winter-solistice-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Open Doors Yoga Studios\, 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, MA\, 02188\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with the New England State Poets Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club on Zoom as we bring the five New England State Poets Laureate for a discussion and reading. We’re delighted to host Julia Bouwsma (Maine)\, Antoinette Brim-Bell (Connecticut)\, Colin Channer (Rhode Island)\, Jennifer Militello (New Hampshire)\, and Bianca Stone (Vermont). We’ll have an open-ended discussion in which they share their experiences\, projects\, plans\, and initiatives\, as well as what drew them to the Poet Laureate position. We’ll also hear their poems! The discussion will be led by two Massachusetts municipal Poets Laureate\, Lloyd Schwartz (Somerville) and Lynne Viti (Westwood)\, who are also members of the NEPC Board of Directors. \nPlease note that advance registration is required for this event. After you register here\, you will receive a personalized Zoom link. \nJulia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine\, where she works as a poet\, homesteader\, editor\, teacher\, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate\, currently serving a term from 2021 to 2026\, and is the author of three poetry collections: the forthcoming Death Fluorescence (Sundress Publications\, 2025)\, Midden (Fordham University Press\, 2018)\, and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017). Honors include a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and two Maine Literary Awards. Her work can be found in various publications\, including Ecotone\, Green Mountains Review\, Kenyon Review\, Plume\, and Poetry Daily. Bouwsma has taught in the Creative Writing department at the University of Maine at Farmington\, serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance\, and works as the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, ME. \nAntoinette Brim-Bell (Antoinette Brim)\, Connecticut’s 8th State Poet Laureate\, is the author of three full-length poetry collections:  These Women You Gave Me\, Icarus in Love\, and Psalm of the Sunflower.   Her poetry has appeared in various journals\, magazines\, textbooks\, and anthologies\, as well as in Poetry Magazine and Poem-a-Day.  Brim-Bell has also published critical works\, including “The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker’s ‘Flowers’” (Critical Insights: Alice Walker\, Salem Press) and “Juxtaposed Dichotomies: the idealized white suburban pastoral\, the surrealist tableau of Black Poverty & the Women in between” (The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent\, Haymarket Books).  Brim-Bell was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for both poetry and essay.  She is a Cave Canem Foundation Fellow and an alum of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA).  A sought-after speaker\, editor\, educator\, and consultant\, Brim-Bell is a Professor of English at Capital Community College in Hartford\, CT. www.antoinettebrimbell.com \nColin Channer is the State Poet of Rhode Island. Born in Jamaica\, he was educated there and in New York. His most recent book is Console (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2023). A book of allusive links between photography\, music\, sea mammals\, mistranslation\, and the universal ritual of “the walk\,” Console was a New Yorker Best Book of 2023 and a Finalist for the New England Book Award; it was also listed for the PEN/Voelcker. Colin’s honors include a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library\, a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers\, and a Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown University\, where he is Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Literary Arts. His poems have appeared in Agni\, The Atlantic\, Conjunctions\, Harvard Review\, The New Yorker\, The Poetry Review\, and other venues.  \nJennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the forthcoming hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen\, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books\, 2021)\, and the memoir Knock Wood\, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books\, 2019)\, as well as four previous collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Best New Poets\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, Poetry\, and Tin House. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College. \nBianca Stone is a poet\, born and raised in Vermont. She is the author of over five books\, including the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House\, 2022)\, winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House\, 2018)\, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House\, 2014) and a collaboration with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions\, 2012). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Poets and Writers\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. She co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit Ruth Stone House\, where she teaches classes on poetry and poetic study\, hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast\, and is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine. She is the current Vermont poet laureate (2024-2029).
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SUMMARY:Pour Me a Poem Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:NEPC member Matthew E. Henry will be the featured poet at the Pour Me a Poem open mic on Thursday\, December 12\, at 7:00 p.m. ET\, hosted by Wayne-Daniel Berard and NEPC member Sara Letourneau. Pour Me a Poem is held at Wayne-Daniel’s home at 51 Park Street in Mansfield\, MA. (The PMAP sign will be on the front porch.) The event is free\, but please bring a few dollars for the Pass The Hat in support of Matthew’s reading. \nPoets are welcome to bring a poem or two and read during the open mic. Please park on the even-numbered side of the street\, opposite from Wayne-Daniel’s house. Also\, please note that the venue and its restrooms may not be accessible to everyone. You can RSVP for Pour Me a Poem here: https://www.facebook.com/events/879446966387508/1164148654584003/
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/pour-me-a-poem-open-mic/
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SUMMARY:NAV Arts Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:NEPC member Sara Letourneau will be the featured poet at the NAV Arts Open Mic on Wednesday\, December 11\, at 5:00 p.m. ET\, hosted by Julie Marie Hoey. The open mic is held at the Bookery\, 844 Elm Street\, Manchester\, New Hampshire.\n\nThis event is free\, but you’re welcome to purchase copies of Sara’s poetry collection\, Wild Gardens\, while you’re there. Poets are welcome to bring a poem or two and read during the open mic. You can RSVP for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1262786054844777 \nThe Bookery and its restrooms are accessible to everyone. You can information about parking here: https://www.bookerymht.com/parking
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nav-arts-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Bookery\, 844 Elm Street\, Manchester\, NH\, 03101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading by Elaine Reardon
DESCRIPTION:Join NEPC Member Elaine Reardon and the Friends of the Greenfield Public Library for a reading from her new Chapbook Stories Told in a Lost Tongue from Finishing Line Press. The book is now available on Amazon or can be ordered from any bookstore. It’s available both as a hardcover and a softcover book. You can learn more about Elaine at https://elainereardon.wordpress.com/. The event is free and open to the public at the Greenfield Public Library\, 412 Main St.\, Greenfield\, MA\, on December 11 at 2 PM.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-by-elaine-reardon/
LOCATION:Greenfield Public Library\, 412 Main St.\, Greenfield\, MA\, 01301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry the Art of Words: Mike Amado Memorial Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join Linda Carney Goodrich & Matthew Porto for Poetry the art of words: Mike Amado Memorial series\nDecember 8\, 2025\, 1:15 to 3:45 at\nPlymouth Center for the Arts\, 11 North Street\, Plymouth\, MA\nFree & open to the public \nNo registration required\, though Zoom attendees must request access by contacting poetrytheartofwords6@gmail.com \nVenue is completely handicapped accessible
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-the-art-of-words-mike-amado-memorial-series/
LOCATION:Plymouth Center for the Arts\, 11 NORTH STREET\, PLYMOUTH\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T180000
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SUMMARY:Peekskill Art Alliance Poetry Salon
DESCRIPTION:NEPC member James K. Zimmerman will participate—along with Mary Newell and Jared Harel—in a Poetry Salon at The Bean Runner Cafe\, 201 S. Division St.\, Peekskill\, NY\, on Tuesday\, December 3\, at 6 p.m. EST. The event will include readings followed by a conversation among the poets\, hosted by Carla Rae Johnson\, about their writing process. Admission is free.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/peekskill-art-alliance-poetry-salon/
LOCATION:The Bean Runner Cafe\, 201 S. Division St.\, Peekskill\, NY\, 10566\, United States
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SUMMARY:Online: An Evening With Luisa A. Igloria\, Aileen Cassinetto\, Diane Seuss\, and Martha Silano
DESCRIPTION:Please join the New England Poetry Club\, as we feature poems from Dear Human at the Edge of Time\, and new books by Luisa A. Igloria and Martha Silano. \nThe poetry anthology\, Dear Human at the Edge of Time\, responds to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) and features work by over 70 poets and scientists. Alongside the language and methodology of science\, the collection presents the language of poets\, of witness and community. This reading will highlight poems from this anthology as well as newly released books: Luisa A. Igloria’s Caulbearer\, and Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours\, with Diane Seuss reading for Martha Silano. \nLuisa A. Igloria is the author of 14 poetry books and five chapbooks\, most recently\, Caulbearer\, winner of the 2023 Immigrant Writing Series Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is lead editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time (2023) and The Nature of Our Times (2025). Various national and international literary awards include the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition Award for Poetry; the 2018 Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Prize; the 2015 (inaugural) Resurgence Poetry Prize (the world’s first major ecopoetry award)\, the 2014 May Swenson Poetry Prize; and the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize\, among others. Luisa is the recipient of a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from the National Union of Writers in the Philippines\, and an eleven-time recipient of The Palanca Award\, the Philippines’ highest literary prize\, and its Hall of Fame distinction. She is Poet Laureate Emerita of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-2022)\, a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, and a Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Creative Writing and English at Old Dominion University. https://www.luisaigloria.com  https://linktr.ee/thepoetslizard \nAileen Cassinetto is a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and co-founder of Paloma Press. She is also co-editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (2023)\, a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment\, and The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands\, Waters\, Wildlife\, and Other Natural Wonders (2025)\, a companion to the First National Nature Assessment. Her poems have appeared in Anthropocene\, Poetry\, Rust & Moth\, and West Trestle Review. aileencassinetto.com \nDiane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections frank: sonnets (2021)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018)\, finalist of the LA Times Book Prize Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Four-Legged Girl (2015)\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake\, White Gown Blown Open (2010)\, winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Her most recent book\, Modern Poetry\, was released by Graywolf Press in March 2024. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently lives in Michigan. \nMartha Silano has authored seven poetry books\, including The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception\, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award finalist\, and most recently\, This One We Call Ours\, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize. Acre Books will release Terminal Surreal\,  her book about living with ALS\, in September 2025. Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, Paris Review\, AGNI\, North American Review\, American Poetry Review\, New Ohio Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Crab Orchard Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review Online\, ​Blackbird\, Copper Nickel\, Mississippi Review\, and elsewhere. Her poem “Love” appears in The Best American Poetry 2009. https://marthasilano.net/index.html \nAdvance registration is required. After registering here\, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the Zoom session. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/online-an-evening-with-luisa-a-igloria-aileen-cassinetto-diane-seuss-and-martha-silano/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241109T130000
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SUMMARY:Red Letter Live!
DESCRIPTION:Steven Ratiner\, NEPC member and publisher of the weekly Red Letter Poems\, is announcing the fifth annual RED LETTER LIVE! poetry event featuring poets: \n\nDanielle Legros Georges\nIndran Amirthanayagam\nHeather Treseler\nSteven Ratiner\n\nAnd a musical performance by clarinetist Todd Brunel \nThe event will be held on Saturday\, November 9th 2024\, 1-3 p.m with a reception to follow at the Robbins Library\, Community Room\, 700 Mass Ave\, Arlington. \nThe reading is free\, wheelchair accessible\, and all are welcome!
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/red-letter-live/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241103T163000
DTSTAMP:20260509T171528
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Music at Medford Brewing Company
DESCRIPTION: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 … \nLiterary Performer\, poet\, and educator\, Regie Gibson has lectured & performed in the United States\, Cuba\, and Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy\, Regie competed for and received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone and The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. Himself and his work appear in love jones\, a film based on events in his life. He is a National Poetry Slam Champion\, has featured on HBO\, several TED X events\, and various NPR programs including On Point and Radio Boston. He’s served as consultant for both the National Endowment for the Arts “How Art Works” initiative and “The Mere Distinction of Color”: an exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier\, examining the legacy of slavery. Regie has performed with and composed texts for The Boston City Singers\, The Mystic Chorale\, and the Handel+Haydn Society. His volume of poems\, Storms Beneath the Skin\, received the Golden Pen Award and his work appears in Poetry Magazine\, Harvard’s Divinity Magazine\, and The Iowa Review\, among others. He’s received the Walker Scholarship for Poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, a YMCA Writer’s Fellowship\, a Mass Cultural Council Poetry Award\, a Lexington Education Foundation Grant\, a Brother Thomas Fellowship\,  two Live Arts Boston Grants to develop his first play\, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae\, two commissions to create texts for the World Bank regarding racism and climate justice\, and an Eliot Norton  Theatre Award for “Best Ensemble” for the play Black Odyssey\, Boston. He performs regularly with Atlas Soul: a world music ensemble\, Shakespeare to Hiphop\, and is co-creator of the Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy: A multi-media performance focusing on the influence of William Shakespeare. He teaches for Clark University & lives in Lexington\, Massachusetts. www.convergenceensemble.org/artists/regie-ohare-gibson \nMax Heinegg is the author of Good Harbor (2022)\, which won the inaugural Paul Nemser Prize\, Going There (2023)\, and Keepers of the House (forthcoming 2025)\, all published by Lily Poetry Review Books. His work has appeared in 32 Poems\, The Cortland Review\, Thrush\, Nimrod\, and Crab Creek Review\, among others. He 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. He is the Medford Brewing Company’s co-founder\, co-owner\, and brewmaster. \nJulia Lisella’s books include Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press 2022)\, named a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Book Prize 2023\, Always\, and Terrain both from WordTech Editions\, and a chapbook\, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Alaska Quarterly\, The Common\, Nimrod\, Pangyrus\, The Rupture\, and many others. She has received writing residencies at MacDowell\, Millay and the Vermont Center for the Arts. She teaches at Regis College and co-curates the IAWA Literary Reading Series in Boston. For more\, see www.julialisellapoetry.com. \nMarlena Merrin is a playwright\, songwriter\, poet\, and sometimes actor. She was an invited writer/performer in the 2021 “teXt moVes” dance-poetry event at the Starlight Square Theatre in Cambridge\, MA for her piece “The Careful Line” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkRdRJfaRzM ) . She’s performed as an improviser at Brandeis University and as devised theater actor at Mobius (https://vimeo.com/34201973) . Her poems have been published in Ibbetson Street and The Somerville Times. A selection of her songs can be found on collegeboundthemusical.com. Her soon-to-be-live website is marlenamerrin.com. \nLeticia Priebe Rocha (she/her) is a poet\, visual artist\, and editor. She is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak\, This is Like (Bottlecap Press\, 2024). Leticia earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University\, where she was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo\, Brazil\, she immigrated to Miami\, FL at the age of 9\, she currently resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Salamander\, Rattle\, Pigeon Pages\, Protean Magazine\, and elsewhere. Leticia is also a Reader for Yellow Arrow Journal and served as Guest Editor for the EMBLAZON issue. For more information\, visit her website: leticiaprieberocha.com/ \nVijaya Sundaram (she/he/hers) is the current Poet Laureate (2023-2025) for the City of Medford\, Massachusetts. Originally from India\, she lived in Arlington\, MA\, for ten years\, and has been living in Medford since 2001. She has written short stories\, plays and a short novel (not yet published). She is also a guitarist\, sitarist\, songwriter\, singer\, amateur digital artist\, and educator. Her poetry and short pieces have appeared in publications like The Rising Phoenix Press\, the Stardust Review\, and TELL Magazine\, among others. Her first collection of poems\, Fractured Lens\, was published in 2023 by Červená Barva Press.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-and-music-at-medford-brewing-company/
LOCATION:Medford Brewing Company\, 30 Harvard Ave.\, Medford\, MA\, 02155\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Toni Bee\, Jesse Mavro Diamond\, Therese Gleason
DESCRIPTION: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. \nToni 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 Without Margins and IWWG: International Women’s Writing Guild. Bee made history as the first woman to hold the esteemed position of Poet Populist of Cambridge and was also the Inaugural Cambridge Poetry Ambassador.  Toni’s journey as a poet began in high school and after gaining her BA at Simmons University\, she self-published her first poetry book\, “22 Again.”  Bee is a community builder who founded and curates Poets In The Garden currently in residence at The Longfellow House-Washington Headquarters in Cambridge\, MA. The program amplifies the voices of BIPOC and all poetic and artistic individuals\, welcoming them into public green spaces. Find out more about this poet’s journey at tonibee.org \nJesse Mavro Diamond has been writing poetry since childhood. Throughout the next six decades\, her writing has explored issues of deep interest to her\, including identity\, gender politics and the diverse societal influences that shape our lives. Mavro Diamond’s experiences as a Jewish woman\, lesbian feminist\, martial artist\, and teacher of English Language Arts at the secondary and college levels have informed every aspect of her writing. She is the author of four plays and six volumes of poetry\, including American Queers\, published in 2023 by Červená Barva Press. and Swimming the Hellespont\, whose title poem was chosen to be honored by the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Most recently\, she developed and taught the first Creative Writing Course in Boston Latin School’s 364-year History. Her work has been published and performed within the United States and internationally. Forthcoming\, Aeolian Harp will publish her four linked sonnets\, Ode For A Lute. \nTherese Gleason‘s poetry\, prose\, and hybrid work have appeared in 32 Poems\, America\, Atticus Review\, Cincinnati Review\, Indiana Review\, Lunch Ticket\, New Ohio Review\, Notre Dame Review\, Rattle\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, West Trade Review\, and elsewhere. She is author of three chapbooks: Hemicrania (forthcoming\, Chestnut Review\, 2024)\, about living with chronic migraine; Matrilineal (Finishing Line\, 2021; Honorable Mention\, Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize\, New England Poetry Club); and Libation (co-winner\, 2006 South Carolina Poetry Initiative Competition). Originally from Louisville\, Kentucky\, she currently lives with her family in central Massachusetts\, where she teaches English language and literacy to multilingual learners in the Worcester Public Schools. She has been as an adjunct creative writing instructor at Clark University\, and has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University. https://theresegleason.com/.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-toni-bee-jesse-mavro-diamond-therese-gleason/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241006T150000
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SUMMARY:Online: 2024 Contests Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading\, featuring: \nPoems from winners of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize contests; \nWinning and honorable-mention poems from our single-poem contests: \n\nSamuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence\nE.E. Cummings Prize\, for a compelling\, lyrical\, or experimental short poem\nAmy Lowell Prize\, for an outstanding poem of any length or style by a poet with strong ties to New England\nDiana Der-Hovanessian Prize\, for a translation from any language.\n\nAdvance registration is required. After registering here\, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the Zoom session.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/online-2024-contests-reading/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240929T150000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris
DESCRIPTION:(Please note: this event was originally scheduled for July 14\, 2024.) \nSarah 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 Writing Program Director at Vermont Studio Center. \nGeorge Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos\, (Louisiana State University\, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU)\, a book of paired poems in translation\, Dialogos\, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus\, Camus: Carnets. His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason\, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser\, 2010). He is the winner of the James Dickey Poetry Prize\, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award\, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-festival-sarah-audsley-and-george-kalogeris/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Mary Bonina\, Patty Crane\, Thomas Olivieri
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, for our first 2024-25 season events hosted by The Trustees! \nMary 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\, Lunch in Chinatown\, includes Bonina’s poem\, “Drift\,” winner of the Boston Contemporary Authors Prize\, which is engraved on a granite monolith\, a permanent public art installation outside a busy subway station. Previous publications include My Father’s Eyes: a Memoir and two other poetry collections—Living Proof and Clear Eye Tea\, all from Červená Barva Press\, which will also publish her novel\, My Way Home in 2025. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Lowell Review\, Hanging Loose\, Poets and Writers\, Salamander\, Mom Egg\, Ovunque Siamo\, Adelaide\, and many other journals\, and her work has been included in several anthologies\, including Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. Angelo from Wavertree Press. \nPatty Crane is the author of BELL I WAKE TO (Zone 3 Press First Book Award\, 2019) and something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award\, 2018)\, and translator of THE BLUE HOUSE: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer (Copper Canyon Press\, 2023)\, winner of the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation\, and BRIGHT SCYTHE (Sarabande Books\, 2015)\, her selected translations of the Swedish Nobel laureate. Her poems have recently appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in 32 Poems\, Poetry Daily\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, and Vox. Her translations have recently appeared in American Poets\, Poetry\, Five Points\, and Guernica. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell and Hedgebrook. A third generation Cape Cod native\, she divides her time between the hilltowns of western Massachusetts and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. \nThomas Olivieri is a flâneur who is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts. His two books\, Swords Snakes & Shipwrecks: a Slight Collection of Hallowe’en Tales and Miscellanea and Kings\, & Saints\, & Knights have been published by Oldstyle Tales and Alien Buddha Presse respectively.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-mary-bonina-patty-crane-thomas-olivieri/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240901T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Jane Attanucci\, Charlot Lucien\, Lawrence Kessenich
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJane 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. \nLawrence 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. \nCharlot 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. \nSeveral 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. \nIn 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-magazine-beach-park-jane-attanucci-charlot-lucien-lawrence-kessenich/
LOCATION:Magazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240825T150000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Festival: Poetry in Translation with Kymm Coveney and J. Kates
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJ. 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-festival-kymm-coveney-and-j-kates/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T200000
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SUMMARY:FAWC + NEPC: New England Poetry Club at the Fine Arts Work Center
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCynthia 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) \nWriter/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 \nChristine 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/fawc-nepc-new-england-poetry-club-at-the-fine-arts-work-center/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Work Center\, 24 Pearl Street\, Provincetown\, MA\, 02657\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240818T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240818T170000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
DESCRIPTION: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 \nKevin 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-festival-elizabeth-bradfield-and-kevin-goodan/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240811T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T171528
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SUMMARY:Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
DESCRIPTION: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. \nGloria 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. \nThe program will include brief readings by a group of area poets published by Červená Barva Press. \nIn case of inclement weather\, the reading will be held in an accessible\, nearby indoor location.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/sam-cornish-poetry-award-gloria-mindock/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T203000
DTSTAMP:20260509T171528
CREATED:20240714T182501Z
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SUMMARY:James Baldwin: One Hundred Years
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPhoto Credit: Kate True & Steven Flyte
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/james-baldwin-one-hundred-years/
LOCATION:The Little Crêpe Café\, 102 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240720T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240720T173000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Amy Lowell: Garden Poetry from a Poet Gardener
DESCRIPTION:Somerville Growing Center\, 22 Vinal Ave\, Somerville\, MA 02143 \nCome 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. \nThe Growing Center is fully accessible. \n(In case of rain\, the event will be rescheduled to July 21st from 6 to 7 pm.) \nJennifer 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. \nLloyd 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. \nDenise 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/celebrating-amy-lowell-garden-poetry-from-a-poet-gardener/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240707T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240707T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T171528
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Magazine Beach Park: Maru Colbert\, Hilary Sallick\, Mark Stevick
DESCRIPTION: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! \nMaru 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”. \nHilary 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) \nMark 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-magazine-beach-park-maru-colbert-hilary-sallick-mark-stevick/
LOCATION:Magazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240609T170000
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SUMMARY:2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
DESCRIPTION:(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.) \nBorn 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. \nAs 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. \nHer 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.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/2024-golden-rose-award-with-gail-mazur/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240602T150000
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SUMMARY:Longfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nThe 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. \nIn the case of inclement weather\, the reading will be moved indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-student-poetry-awards-2024/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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