Longfellow Student Poetry Awards
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsKick 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. The ceremony concludes with the presentation ... Read more
Poetry Reading: Sam Cornish Award with Harris Gardner & Ruth Lepson
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsThe 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. Harris Gardner has been the Poetry Editor of Ibbetson Street since 2010. He has authored four poetry collections: Chalice of Eros, co-authored with Lainie ... Read more
Poetry in Translation: Dzvinia Orlowsky & Nidia Hernandez
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsDzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart prize poet, an award-winning translator, and a founding editor of Four Way Books. She’s published six poetry collections by Carnegie Mellon University Press including A Handful of Bees, Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, and Bad Harvest, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her poem sequence “The (Dis)enchanted ... Read more
Poetry Reading: Enzo Silon Surin & Joan Houlihan
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsEnzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born, award-winning poet, educator, librettist, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including When My Body Was A Clinched Fist, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry and the forthcoming collection, American Scapegoat. He is co-editor of Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience, ... Read more
2023 Golden Rose Award with Afaa M. Weaver
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsAfaa M. Weaver (formerly Michael S.Weaver) is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, several plays, and some short fiction. As a journalist in Baltimore, where he was born in 1951, Afaa wrote for the Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore Afro-American, and other papers. His awards include a Fulbright appointment, a Guggenheim fellowship, multiple Pushcarts, the PDI ... Read more
Poetry Reading: Laura Budofsky Wisniewski & Rajiv Mohabir
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsLaura Budofsky Wisniewski is the author of Sanctuary, Vermont which won the 2020 Orison Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s 2022 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. She is also author of the chapbook, How to Prepare Bear. She was a finalist in the 2022 Narrative Poetry Prize, runner up in the 2021 Missouri Review Miller Audio Prize, ... Read more
Poetry Reading, New Books. Mary Buchinger & Hilary Sallick
Saturday, August 26, 3-5 pm Join NEPC board members Mary Buchinger and Hilary Sallick on Saturday, August 26, 3-5 PM, for a joint book launch. Mary Buchinger will read from NAVIGATING THE REACH (Salmon Poetry) and Hilary Sallick will read from LOVE IS A SHORE (Lily Poetry Review Books). The event will be held at the St. ... Read more
Poetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons. Sponsoring poetry in New England since 1915, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the ... Read more
Nature Poetry in the Park
Sunday, September 3, 2023. Free and open to the public. Fully accessible (with rest rooms) Magazine Beach Park Nature Center, 668 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139. Three poets, Linda Haviland Conte, Wendy Drexler, and Denise Washington from the board of the New England Poetry Club look forward to sharing poems that explore our complex and ... Read more
Poetry at the Old Manse – September
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join 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 signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn ... Read more