ZOOM. 2023 contest prize-winners
Sunday, October 8, 3 pm (ET via ZOOM) NEPC 2023 Prize-Winners’ Reading by the authors of the prize-winning and honorable-mention poems from our annual contests: Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, for full-length poetry collections Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Samuel Washington Allen Prize for a long poem or poem sequence E.E. Cummings Prize, for ... Read more
CANCELLED: Poetry at the Old Manse – October
This outdoor reading is cancelled due to the weather forecast: to be rescheduled. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join the Trustees and 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 ... Read more
Marcia Karp; A Poet in the House Workshop.
An exclusive event for NEPC members: “An Order the Leaves Allow” "You can write Click on this link to register for this event" Marcia Karp taught literary and editorial matters at Boston University. She has poems and translations in The Times Literary Supplement; Harvard Review; Agenda; Literary Imagination; The Guardian; Ploughshares; Partisan Review; Penguin Books’ Catullus in English and Petrarch in English; Joining Music with Reason: ... Read more
Sara Backer, Miriam Levine, Rodger Martin
Toadstool Bookshops 12 Emerald St., Keene, NH, United StatesCo-presented with the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, at the Toadstool Bookshop, Keene. Open mic to follow. For more information: Poetry Society of New Hampshire: https://psnh.org/events/nov11-three-nh-poets/ Toadstool: https://www.toadbooks.com/event/keene-sara-backer-miriam-levine-and-rodger-martin-all-presenting-their-poetry Sara Backer’s first book of poetry, Such Luck, follows two chapbooks: Scavenger Hunt, and Bicycle Lotus, which won the Turtle Island Chapbook Award. Her honors include a prize in the Plough ... Read more
Fruitlands: Ann Bookman, Mary Beth Hines, Alfred Nicol
Fruitlands Museum 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MAReading 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 ... Read more
ZOOM: Rajiv Mohabir, Lindsey Schaffer, Cindy Veach
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 ... Read more
Fruitlands. Jhonny Victor, Marie Gauthier, Len Krisak
Fruitlands Museum 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MAMarie 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 ... Read more
Member Celebration Online
OnlineOur 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.
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 ... Read more
Fruitlands: Mary Buchinger, Timothy Gager, John L. Holgerson
Fruitlands Museum 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard, MA(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, ... Read more