BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//New England Poetry Club - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nepoetryclub.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New England Poetry Club
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20251108T173518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T221533Z
UID:8582-1764961200-1764966600@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:José Enrique Delmonte\, Shira Zohara Dickey\, Rhina P. Espaillat and Juan Matos
DESCRIPTION:December 5\, 2025\, 7 pm\, Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, 6 Plympton St\, Cambridge \nThe NEPC is honored to co-present this evening of poems by José Enrique Delmonte\, Shira Zohara Dickey\, Rhina P. Espaillat\, and Juan Matos with the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Leonardo Nin will introduce the poets. \nThe event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street\, Cambridge\, and on Zoom. Please note that registration is required. Use this link to register for the in-store reading\, and this link for the virtual reading. For the in-store reading\, note that space is limited\, and if you arrive after the start time\, you may jeopardize your seat. \nJosé Enrique Delmonte (1964\, Santo Domingo\, Dominican Republic). Poet\, essayist\, historian\, PhD in linguistics and literature\, and architect. He has received several literary awards\, including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana\, the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair; the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora\, Spain); and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House\, Madrid\, Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City)\, Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World)\, La redondez de lo posible (Roundness of the Possible)\, Habitantes del tedio (Inhabitants of Tedium)\, and La palabra más larga (The Longest Word). José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French. \nShira Zohara Dickey is a US-born architectural historian\, author\, lecturer\, and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages\, with reading proficiency in others\, she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet\, essayist\, and architect\, José Enrique Delmonte\, into English. Shira’s forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history\, a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte\, and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion\, deceased MIT atmospheric physicist\, Ralph J. Markson. Shira Zohara enjoys being a Massachusetts Cantabrigian and sharing her home with her Berger Blanc Suisse. \nDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books\, four chapbooks\, and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections\, essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish\, as well as numerous translations\, from and into both languages\, of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and websites\, and has received many national and international awards. Among the countless other authors whose poetry she has also translated are Robert Frost\, Richard Wilbur\, Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay\, as well as San Juan de la Cruz\, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, Miguel Hernández\, Federico García Lorca\, César Sánchez Beras\, Juan Matos\, Julia Alvarez\, José Marmol\, and many others from Europe\, Latin America\, English speaking authors\, and the large and active Caribbean diaspora in the United States.\nEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets\, the Powow River Poets\, The Melopoeia musical Trio\, and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards\, including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards\, several from the Poetry Society of America\, the New England Poetry Club\, The Robert Frost Foundation\, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic\, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College.\n \nJuan Matos (1956). Educator and cultural activist residing in Lunenburg\, MA. He migrated from the Dominican Republic in 1985. He served as Worcester Poet Laureate (2020-22); sharing and promoting poetry in community centers\, schools\, universities\, and other institutions; and developing creative writing workshops with youth. He has written numerous poetry books; most recent are “Labrador de palabras”(2021); Con pecado concebido (2021); Temblor de espejos (2021); The Man Who Left /El hombre que se fue (2017); Sugar\, Cape\, and Port (2018). His works have been included in many anthologies and magazines. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry (Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo); a Master’s Degree in New York; another Master’s in Elementary School (Lehman College\, NY); and another Master’s Degree in Bilingual Education (Worcester State University). Matos taught ESL & Spanish Literature for 35 years and retired from Worcester Public Schools in 2019. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Latino Educational Institute in Worcester\, MA. juanmatospoeta.com
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/jose-enrique-delmonte-shira-zohara-dickey-rhina-p-espaillat-and-juan-matos/
LOCATION:Grolier Poetry Book Shop\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/12-5-Grolier-image.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20251124T232102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T232747Z
UID:8679-1765044000-1765051200@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Finding Warmth Under the Waning Moon
DESCRIPTION:Gloria Monaghan (NEPC Membership Secretary and Advisory Board member) invites you to the Open Doors Center for the Arts for a reading featuring Lynne Viti (NEPC Advisory Board member)\, Cynthia Bargar\, Stephen Haven\, and Steven Cramer. An open mic and wine + cheese reception will follow. The event will happen on Saturday\, December 6\, from 6-8 pm. Please note that the venue\, at 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, Mass.\, is not wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/finding-warmth-under-the-waning-moon/
LOCATION:Open Doors Yoga Studios\, 65 Washington Street\, Weymouth\, MA\, 02188\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/12-6-Open-Doors-reading.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20251122T211604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251122T211604Z
UID:8676-1765911600-1765917000@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group\, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Sara Letourneau and Owen Lewis\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nSara Letourneau is the author of Wild Gardens (Kelsay Books\, 2024); a book editor and writing coach at Heart of the Story Editorial & Coaching Services; the cofounder and cohost of the Pour Me a Poem open mic in Mansfield\, Massachusetts; and the co-editor of the Pour Me a Poem anthology. Her poetry has won the 2023 Beals Prize for Poetry and the Blue Institute’s 2020 Words on Water contest. Her latest work can be found in The Arts Fuse\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, The Ekphrastic Review\, Nixes Mate Review\, Silver Birch Press\, The Somerville Times\, The Table Review\, Third Wednesday Magazine\, and Wild Greens. Sara lives in Foxboro\, Massachusetts. \nOwen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks\, most recently A Prayer of Six Wings. His prior book\, Field Light\, was a “Must Read” selection in the 2021 Mass Book Awards. Honors include the 2024 E.E. Cummings Prize from the New England Poetry Club\, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize\, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry\, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine\, and the NEPC Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. He is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University and teaches Narrative Medicine. 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-sara-letourneau-and-owen-lewis/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Arlington-12-16-flyer.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260111T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260111T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20251210T211156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T211156Z
UID:8726-1768141800-1768145400@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC @ Westwood: Jim Brosnan\, Jennifer L Freed\, Alix Klingenberg
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club is delighted to return to the Westwood (Mass.) Public Library! The reading will happen on Sunday\, January 11\, 2026\, at 2:30 p.m.\, in the Community Reading Room. The poets will be introduced by Lynne Viti\, Westwood Poet Laureate Emerita and a member of the NEPC Advisory Board. This event is free and open to the public\, in an accessible venue. An open mic will follow the featured poets. \nPushcart nominee Jim Brosnan is a university professor\, writer\, photographer\, and avid traveler\, who lives with his wife Donna in southeastern Massachusetts when they are not spending time as residents of coastal Maine. He is a five-time finalist in NEATE’s Poet of the Year competition and has won awards by the National Federation of Poetry Societies. His poetry has appeared in many journals including The Aurorean\, The Avocet\, The Bridge\, Eunoia Review (Singapore)\, Lakeview Journal (India)\, Minnesota English Journal\, Naugatuck River Review\, Nine Muses (Wales)\, Scarlet Leaf Review (Canada)\, Strand (India)\, The Madrigal (Ireland)\, and Voices of the Poppies (UK). His first book\, Nameless Roads (Moon Pie Press\, 2019) focused on New England. Long Distance Driving\, his second collection  (Ochre Leaf Press 2024)\, focuses on states west of the Mississippi. \nJennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts (2022)\, a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Margaret Motton book prize\, and second place in the 2025 Eric Hoffer Legacy Non-fiction awards\, where it was also a finalist for the Medal Provocateur for poetry.  Her poems appear in Atlanta Review\, Rust and Moth\, Sheila-na-Gig\, Vox Populi\, and others\, and have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net  For many years she taught adult-level English language (ESL) classes both overseas and to immigrants in the USA.  She now leads creative writing programs and facilitates workshops from Beverly\, Massachusetts. Please visit Jfreed.weebly.com \nAlix Klingenberg is a poet\, artist\, and Unitarian Universalist spiritual director. Her poetic work moves between the intimate and the elemental\, braiding daily life with ecological and spiritual attention. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Secrets and Stars\, Bread Sex Trees\, Hermit Season\, and most recently Quietly Wild (Mandala Earth Publishing\, 2025)\, which pairs poems and photographs with rituals honoring the seasons of the year. \nHer poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies\, and she currently serves as the Managing Poetry Editor at Phil Lit Journal. Alix studied visual art at Oberlin College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Master of Divinity from Meadville Lombard Theological School. In addition to her writing\, she teaches workshops and leads retreats that guide participants into deeper connection with language\, creativity\, and the living world.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-westwood-jim-brosnan-jennifer-l-freed-alix-klingenberg/
LOCATION:Westwood Public Library\, 660 High Street\, Westwood\, MA\, 02090\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-10-161131.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20251219T171916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T171916Z
UID:8738-1768658400-1768663800@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Everyone Has a Voice: Mark Pawlak\, Darvince Oddies\, Hope Z. Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is happy to announce a collaboration with Phillip Hasouris\, recent Brockton Poet Laureate. In January\, we’ll participate in the series\, “Everyone Has a Voice\,” presented at the Brockton Public Library. These events pair an established poet with a student poet and include an open mic. This month’s reading is hosted by Queen of Ceremonies Hope Z. Fernandes and takes place in the Driscoll Art Gallery. The library offers ample off-street parking. \nMark Pawlak is the author of ten poetry collections\, most recently Away Away (Arrowsmith Press\, 2024)\, and the memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press\, 2021). His poems have been translated into German\, Japanese\, Polish\, and Spanish. In English\, his poems and prose have appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust\, among many other places. As managing editor of Hanging Loose Press\, he has published four anthologies of the “Best Poetry” by high school-age writers. \nDarvince Oddies is a 15-year-old Haitian student at New Heights Charter School\, and he is the youngest of three children. He is named after his father and has “Viguez” as his middle name. Darvince developed a passion for poetry in 2020\, initially using it to cope with his emotions. After 2023\, he began writing less often\, choosing instead to share his poems out loud with friends. Encouraged by his friends\, who recognized his potential and talent\, and by teachers who heard his earlier work\, Darvince has been inspired to return to writing and begin performing his poems. \nHope Z.  Fernandes\, CAGS\, is a Massachusetts professionally licensed educator in multiple areas who has taught for decades and was a school administrator almost as long. She has data-driven experience in equity and inclusion\, as well as mindfulness and compassion education.  She has been a teacher\, Director of Language Acquisition\, Assistant Principal of Discipline\, Assistant Principal of Teaching\, Learning\, 504s and Special Education\, a Principal\, Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College\, as well as the University of Massachusetts Boston.  As an Educational Leader\, she has focused on Equity and Inclusion Practices as they relate to student success and educator inclusion. \nMs. Fernandes has been writing poetry since her formative years.  Her first published poem\, “The Gallery\,” appeared in Silver Spectrum in 1989. She went on to be the Editor of her college poetry magazine\, The Tree Well.  She began the first High School competitive Poetry Slam Group on the South Shore in 1996\, where her students competed orally in poetry competitions.  She has coached three of the Massachusetts Poetry Out Loud State Champions and two second runners-up for Poetry Out Loud’s National Championships.  Her love for poetry stems from her mother\, who had a poem for every life situation.  Hope describes Poetry as honoring and celebrating each other as humans in the most compassionate\, mindful\, and humble ways; her poetry celebrates Cape Verdean Culture\, family\, and her students.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/everyone-has-a-voice-mark-pawlak-darvince-oddies-hope-z-fernandes/
LOCATION:Brockton Public Library\, 304 Main Street\, Brockton\, MA\, 02301\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1-17-Brockton-image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260102T153158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T153158Z
UID:8745-1768935600-1768941000@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Carla Panciera and Julia Thacker
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group\, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Carla Panciera and Julia Thacker\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nCarla Panciera’s poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner One of the Cimalores\, Bordighera Press Award Winner No Day\, No Dusk\, No Love and most recently\, One Trail of Longing\, Another of String (also Bordighera). Her short story collection\, Bewildered\, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She was the James E. Kilgore scholar in Nonfiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant in Creative Nonfiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her book Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir\, was released in 2023 by Loom Press. \nJulia Thacker’s debut collection To Wildness was selected by Paul Muldoon for the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and published by The Waywiser Press in 2025. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals\, including AGNI\, Bennington Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Massachusetts Review and The New Republic. A portfolio of her work\, The Empress of Serifs\, won the 2019 Winter Chapbook award from Poetry International. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute. In 2024\, she was an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence at The Mount. Julia has taught writing at Tufts University\, in the Radcliffe Seminars and as a poet-in-residence in public schools throughout the state. She lives in Arlington. 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-carla-panciera-and-julia-thacker/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1-20-Arlington-flyer.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260102T153527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T153527Z
UID:8748-1770555600-1770562800@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Reimagined and Recomposed: An online workshop with Brian Evans-Jones
DESCRIPTION:In contemporary classical music\, recomposing means to take the work of a composer from the past and use it as the basis for a new piece of music. Sometimes the original changes only a little\, and sometimes it seems to vanish almost entirely! (An example is The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed by Max Richter.) \nThis workshop will recompose this idea of recomposition by applying it to poetry. You’ll take poems that you love\, and recompose them and their words into original poems of your own. This is a way to pay homage to a poem and poet you value—and learn more about how it works—while also finding your own space and voice within their poem. Moreover\, it’s a chance to step outside your usual voice and rhythm\, as the exercise pushes you to create phrasing and imagery that you normally would not. \nPlease come prepared with: \n\nTwo poems by others that are important to you;\nOne poem by yourself that you’re not happy with. \n\nEach poem should be at least about sonnet length (i.e.\, 14 lines) but not longer than a page.  \nNote: by February 4th\, send your poem selections to brian@brianevansjones.com in a Word or Pages document.  \nBrian Evans-Jones is a poet and teacher from Britain who now lives in Sharon\, NH. He was Poet Laureate of Hampshire\, England\, before moving to New England in 2014 to do his MFA at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Maureen Egan award from Poets & Writers in 2017\, and his poems have been published in journals and contests on both sides of the Atlantic. He has taught poetry in colleges\, schools\, and workshops\, as well as online through his website The Poetry Place\, where he publishes resources on poetry and creativity. \nAdvance registration is required. There will not be a “one size fits all” Zoom link. After registering here\, you will receive a confirmation email with your personalized session link. Please feel free to share the registration link\, but not your personal link.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/reimagined-and-recomposed-an-online-workshop-with-brian-evans-jones/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Reimagined-and-Recomposed-Transforming-great-poems-into-your-own-original-work-with-Brian-Evans-Jones.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260217T200000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260123T143945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T143945Z
UID:8786-1771354800-1771358400@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Wendy Drexler and Philip Hasouris
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group\, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Wendy Drexler and Philip Hasouris\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nWendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection\, Harvest of What Remains\, will be published in January 2026 by Lily Poetry Review and received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street\, J Journal\, Nimrod\, Pangyrus\, Prairie Schooner\, Salamander\, Solstice\, The Mid-American Review\, The Sun\, and The Threepenny Review\, among others. She was the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park\, MA\, from 2018 to 2023 served as programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club from 2016–2024. \nPhilip Hasouris‘s poetry invites you on a profound journey. His insightful verses explore themes of love\, tragedy\, and hope\, showcasing the transformative power of poetry. His writing captures a deep connection to life’s experiences with exquisite sensitivity. His collections include Light of the Moon: My Journey Through the Stages of Grief. In recognition of his dedication to fostering a love of poetry\, advocating for literature\, and supporting arts and education\, Philip was appointed the first Poet Laureate of Brockton\, 2021- 2025.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-wendy-drexler-and-philip-hasouris/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2-17-Arlington-flyer-b.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260221T151935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T194209Z
UID:8800-1773774000-1773779400@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Regie Gibson\, Tribute to Charles Coe
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC continues our partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group\, in a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. This month’s reading features Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson\, presenting a tribute to the late Charles Coe. Additional readers include Susan Donnelly\, Richard Hoffman\, Cecily Miller\, Steven Ratiner\, Vijaya Sundaram\, Deanna Witter\, with introductions by Steve Rapp. \nFor this month’s open mic\, readers must present a poem written by Charles Coe or a poem about him. Please contact jeanpflanagan@gmail.com if you would like to participate or if you have questions. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nSworn in by Governor Maura Healey on May 30\, 2025\, Regie Gibson is Massachusetts’s first Poet Laureate. He currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Pedagogy at the Arts for Social Cohesion. He is an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music\, where he teaches courses on performance and spoken word poetry\, and an Instructor at Clark University in Worcester\, where he teaches the introduction to poetry. His poems for public occasions engage complex historical and social issues\, inviting audiences into the dialogue with hope and often humor. He is intentional about using poetry to create common ground and foster social cohesion. He holds a master’s in fine arts in Creative Writing from New England College and lives in Lexington. \nRegie Gibson has lectured and performed widely in the US\, Cuba\, and Europe. He has received the Walker Scholarship\, a Mass Cultural Council Award\, a YMCA Writer’s Fellowship\, and the Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation. In addition\, he was awarded two Live Arts Boston (LAB) grants for the production of his first musical\, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae\, in which he uses Euripides’ tragedy to explore African American music and spirituality.\n\nGibson has served as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts’ “How Art Works” initiative and “The Mere Distinction of Colour\,” a permanent exhibit examining the legacy of slavery and the U.S. Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier home in Virginia. He is the author of Storms Beneath the Skin and the creator of The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy\, a theatrical\, literary-musical performance focusing on William Shakespeare. Gibson has performed with\, and composed texts for\, Boston City Singers\, Mystic Chorale\, and the Handel and Haydn Society. He is a member of the New England Poetry Club Board of Directors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-regie-gibson-tribute-to-charles-coe/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/3-17-Arlington-flyer-1.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260215T174120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T174120Z
UID:8797-1775311200-1775318400@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC @ the BPL: Lee Varon\, Gale Batchelder\, Robert Eugene Perry
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC kicks off National Poetry Month with a return to the Boston Public Library\, Jamaica Plain Branch! The reading\, on Saturday\, April 4\, at 2:00 pm\, will be free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. The JP Branch\, at 30 South Street\, is an accessible venue. \nLee Varon is a social worker and writer.  Her latest poetry collection\, The Last Bed\, was published in 2024. She is the author of two children’s books\, My Brother is Not a Monster: A Story of Addiction and Recovery (2021) and A Kids Book About Overdose (2024). \nGale Batchelder lives in Cambridge. Her work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly\, Pangyrus\, Colorado Review\, SpoKe4\, Lily Poetry Review\, and in the poetry anthologies New Smoke (2009) and Triumph of Poverty (2011)\, from Off the Park Press. Her collaborative manuscript Chalk Song (with Judson Evans and Susan Berger-Jones) was published in 2022 by Lily Poetry Review Books. \nRobert Eugene Perry is a native of Massachusetts and the author of six books. His most recent collection of poetry\, I Dreamt I Was Water\, was published in 2025.  He was also nominated for the Stanley Kunitz Medal in 2025. Perry has emceed the monthly Open Mic at Booklovers’ Gourmet in Webster\, Mass.\, since May 2017\, as well as organizing/emceeing the monthly feature Slightly Off-beat Poets since first featuring poet Richard Fox in September of 2022.  \nPerry’s poetry has been featured in numerous magazines\, anthologies\, and publications. His poem Heard Street/ Hadwen Park in Winter was a winner in the 2024 Poems in and out of Places\, sponsored by Mapping Worcester in Poetry. He publishes fellow authors on his own imprint\, Metaphysical Fox Press\, begun in 2024. As a metaphysical poet\, he finds inspiration in nature and endeavors to draw connections between our higher selves and the natural world.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-bpl-lee-varon-gale-batchelder-robert-eugene-perry/
LOCATION:Boston Public Library (Jamaica Plain)\, 30 South Street\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NEPC-@-The-BPL-Gale-Batchelder-Lee-Varon-Robert-Eugene-Perry.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T193000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260314T140155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260403T133517Z
UID:8830-1776448800-1776454200@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Tribute to Rhina P. Espaillat
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC is proud to partner with the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in honoring Rhina P. Espaillat\, beloved Dominican diasporic poet and English crossover poet. Espaillat will read favorite selections from her work\, alongside readings by the acclaimed Dominican diasporic poet and author Leonardo Nin and the award-winning Dominican poet José Enrique Delmonte\, with translations by Shira Zohara Dickey. To register for this event\, visit this page. \nApril 17\, 2026 | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM \nDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books\, four chapbooks\, and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections\, essays\, and short stories in both English and her native Spanish\, as well as numerous translations\, from and into both languages\, of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies\, journals\, and websites\, and has received many national and international awards \nEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets\, the Powow River Poets\, The Melopoeia musical Trio\, and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards\, including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards\, several from the Poetry Society of America\, the New England Poetry Club\, The Robert Frost Foundation\, the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic\, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. \nJosé Enrique Delmonte is a poet\, essayist\, historian\, PhD in linguistics and literature\, and architect. He has received several literary awards\, including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana\, the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair\, the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora\, Spain)\, and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House\, Madrid\, Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City)\, Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World)\, and several others. José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French. \nShira Zohara Dickey (translator) is a US-born architectural historian\, author\, lecturer\, and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages\, she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet\, essayist\, and architect\, José Enrique Delmonte\, into English. Shira’s forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history\, a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte\, and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion\, deceased MIT atmospheric physicist Ralph J. Markson. \nLeonardo Nin is a writer\, novelist\, poet\, and independent researcher in the fields of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. One of the main voices of Dominican literature in the United States and Latin America\, his published works include: Paid Space (poetry\, El Salvador\, 2019)\, That is why I will never go back (Short Stories 20202)\, I Only Know They Called her\, Shadow; At the Blue Side of Nothingness\, and many others. He is currently the director of the Taino Museum of Magua\, Dominican Republic\, and editor of Ivy Editorial of Randolph\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-tribute-to-rhina-espaillat/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Longfellow-4-26-Rhina-P-Espaillat.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T153000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260314T144320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260314T144320Z
UID:8835-1776520800-1776526200@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Everyone Has a Voice: Carla Schwartz\, Nicole Rocci\, Hope Z. Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC continues our collaboration with Phillip Hasouris\, recent Brockton Poet Laureate\, for the Everyone Has a Voice” series\, presented at the Brockton Public Library. These events pair an established poet with a student poet and include an open mic. This month’s reading is hosted by Queen of Ceremonies Hope Z. Fernandes and takes place in the Driscoll Art Gallery. The library offers ample off-street parking. \nCarla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in her collections\, including Signs of Marriage. Her poem “Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother” received the 2023 New England Poetry Club E.E. Cummings Prize. Her poems have appeared in many publications\, including Contemporary Haibun Online\, Cider Press Review\, Door is a Jar\, Euphony\, Modern Haiku\, New Verse Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, One Art\, Pan Haiku Review\, Past Ten\, Rattle Magazine\, Pork Belly\, Sense and Sensibility\, and Verse-Virtual Online. Carla lives half the time in the greater Boston area\, and half the time on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee. She is passionate about cycling\, Nordic skiing\, hiking\, freshwater long-distance swimming\, paddle-boarding\, pedal kayaking\, reading\, and gardening. Learn more at https://carlapoet.com\, or on all social media @cb99videos. \nNicole Rocci is a poet and essayist who describes her work as observational\, curious\, and raw. She always knew she was a writer- what started as songs about teenage heartbreak has transformed into pieces on sexuality\, relationship dynamics\, and how she sees herself in the world. Nic’s poems “The Valley”\, “ Melpomene”\, and “Orion” have been featured in the literary magazine Mill Pages. While she works as a Domestic Violence Counselor in the present day\, she will always be a writer who welcomes discomfort\, curiosity\, and tenderness into her work and those who read it. \nHope Z.  Fernandes\, CAGS\, is a Massachusetts professionally licensed educator in multiple areas who has taught for decades and was a school administrator almost as long. She has data-driven experience in equity and inclusion\, as well as mindfulness and compassion education.  She has been a teacher\, Director of Language Acquisition\, Assistant Principal of Discipline\, Assistant Principal of Teaching\, Learning\, 504s and Special Education\, a Principal\, Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College\, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.  As an Educational Leader\, she has focused on Equity and Inclusion Practices as they relate to student success and educator inclusion.   \nMs. Fernandes has been writing poetry since her formative years.  Her first published poem\, “The Gallery\,” appeared in Silver Spectrum in 1989. She went on to be the Editor of her college poetry magazine\, The Tree Well.  She began the first High School competitive Poetry Slam Group on the South Shore in 1996\, where her students competed orally in poetry competitions.  She has coached three of the Massachusetts Poetry Out Loud State Champions and two second runners-up for Poetry Out Loud’s National Championships.  Her love for poetry stems from her mother\, who had a poem for every life situation.  Hope describes Poetry as honoring and celebrating each other as humans in the most compassionate\, mindful\, and humble ways; her poetry celebrates Cape Verdean Culture\, family\, and her students.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/everyone-has-a-voice-carla-schwartz-nicole-rocci-hope-z-fernandes/
LOCATION:Brockton Public Library\, 304 Main Street\, Brockton\, MA\, 02301\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-18-Brockton-image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260320T193428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T193558Z
UID:8858-1776798000-1776803400@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC and Beehive Poetry: Jason O’Toole\, John Pijewski
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s partnership with the Beehive Poetry Group concludes in April\, with a reading presented by Jean Flanagan\, the Arlington\, Massachusetts Poet Laureate Emerita. This month’s event features Jason O’Toole and John Pijewski. \nThe event is free and open to the public. The Robbins Library is an accessible venue. \nOpen-mic reading slots are on a first-come\, first-served basis and open 15 minutes before the start time. Sign up to read\, or attend and enjoy a night of poetry! \nJason O’Toole is Poet Laureate Emeritus of North Andover\, MA. His collections include The Strange Misgivings of the Sadly Gifted (Dead Man’s Press\, 2025)\, and the chapbook Enragés (Between Shadows Press\, 2025). He serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club\, and as treasurer of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco. He is the winner of the 2025 Amy Lowell Prize and has been nominated for the Rhysling and the Pushcart Prize.  He was the co-founder of the Anne Bradstreet Prize and serves as judge for the Tom Nattell Peace Poetry Prize and the Capital District Slam Poetry Festival in NY.  Recent poems and prose have appeared in the anthology Love is for All of Us (Storey Publishing)\, as well as Ghost City Press\, The Somerville Times\, Phil Lit\, Molecule: a tiny lit mag\, and Deceleration News. \nJohn Pijewski was born in Boston\, Massachusetts\, in 1952. He graduated from Boston University\, the University of New Hampshire in Durham\, and attended Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. His book of poems\, Dinner with Uncle Jozef\, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1982. He received a writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1984. \nJohn taught Creative Writing as an adjunct professor for 35 years at Boston University\, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, and the University of Southern Maine in Portland.  His poems have been published in The Paris Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Tri-Quarterly\, Poetry Northwest\, The New Yorker\, and other journals. \nJohn describes the poems in his new book\, Collected Father\, as existing in the province between Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird\, in which an abandoned boy tries to survive on his own in the brutal peasant culture of Poland during WW II\, and Franz Kafka’s Letter to His Father.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-and-beehive-poetry-jason-otoole-john-pijewski/
LOCATION:Robbins Library\, 700 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/4-21-Arlington-flyer.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T170000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260320T194254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T190919Z
UID:8862-1777215600-1777222800@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC  + WCPA: Gloria Monaghan\, Ivy Schweitzer\, Renee Slovick
DESCRIPTION:The New England Poetry Club is delighted to team up with the Worcester County Poetry Association for a collaboration to round out National Poetry Month! The event takes place on Sunday\, April 26\, at the Park View Room\, 230 Park Avenue in Worcester. (Please note: this is a change from the originally announced location.) The reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. Join us! \nGloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry: Diary of Saint Marion\, Lily Poetry Review\, (2025)\, Cormorant on the Strand\, Lily Poetry Review (2023)\, Hydrangea\, Kelsay Press\,(2020)\, Torero\, Nixes Mate\, (2020) False Spring\, Adelaide Books\, (2019)\, The Garden\, Flutter Press (2015)\, and Flawed\, Finishing Line Press (2011). Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review\, Quartet and River Heron among others. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize\, for the Griffin Prize\, and for the Shelia Margaret Motton Award. She was a Semi-Finalist for the Tenth Gate Prize. She is also a film maker. \nBorn in Brooklyn\, Ivy Schweitzer lives in Norwich\, Vermont and has taught American Literature and Women’s Studies at Dartmouth College. She writes about cultural identity and social justice from a feminist and Jewish perspective. Her poems have appeared recently in Passager\, Ritualwell\, Tikkun\, New Croton Review\, Mississippi Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The New England Poetry Club’s Prize Winners’ Anthology 2024 and The Mountain Troubadour. Finishing Line Press published her debut solo collection\, Dividing Rivers\, in 2025. Visit her author page https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ivyschweitzer/. \nRenee Slovick writes poems and short stories and drinks too much Diet Coke. She was born and raised in NYC but you can only hear the accent when she gets mad. She’s not a Yankees fan\, which became really important when she moved to Worcester in 2002. She married a guy who took her to an arcade on their first date and has one human son and one cat son. These days she likes to hyper focus on horror movies and serial killers\, and fall asleep to true crime documentaries. Her favorite tarot card is The Hanged Man.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-wcpa-gloria-monaghan-ivy-schweitzer-renee-slovick/
LOCATION:Park View Room\, 230 Park Avenue\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/NEPC-Worcester-County-Poetry-Association.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T163000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260406T155827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T155827Z
UID:8909-1778943600-1778949000@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:NEPC @ The Menino: Barbara Cassidy\, Jennifer M Phillips\, Vijaya Sundaram
DESCRIPTION:On May 16\, please join the New England Poetry Club in a return to the Menino Arts Center in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The reading begins at 3:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured poets. \nThe Menino Arts Center\, located at 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. \nBarbara Cassidy is a poet\, singer-songwriter\, and Sean-nós singer who resides in Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Open Doors Review\, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets\, The Stonecoast Review\, on the 2023/2025 Martin Poetry Path in Newton\, among others\, and have been set to music by composer Eric Chasalow. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook\, Divination (Dancing Girl Press\, 2026). \nJennifer M Phillips is a boundary-crosser\, retired skydiver\, and bonsai-grower\, and has authored three chapbooks\, Sitting Safe In the Theatre of Electricity\, A Song of Ascents\, and Sailing to the Edges\, and a collection\, Wrestling with the Angel. Phillips’ work has appeared in over 140 journals\, recently Spoon River Poetry Review\, London Grip\, and The Alembic)\, and was thrice-nominated for a Pushcart Poetry Prize and an Eyelands Book Prize. She is moved to write poetry these days by changing landscapes during climate shift and the need for a new communitarianism to forge connections in our time of fragmentation. \nVijaya Sundaram is an Indian-born\, Medford-based poet\, musician\, artist\, and community college professor. She served as Medford’s second Poet Laureate between 2023-2025. Her first collection of poems\, Fractured Lens\, was published in 2023 by Červená Barva Press. Her second poetry book\, Reverberations\, was published in 2025 by Ibbetson Street Press. Aside from poems\, she has written short stories\, plays\, and a short novel. Her poetry and short pieces have appeared in publications like The Rising Phoenix Press\, the Stardust Review\, and TELL Magazine\, among others. She has read her poems at poetry events in and around the Boston and Greater Boston areas\, and currently runs an Open Mic for Poetry and Original Song at the Arts Collaborative Medford\, as well as a Medford Poetry Club at the Medford Public Library.  She is a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals for 2026.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nepc-the-menino-barbara-cassidy-jennifer-m-phillips-vijaya-sundaram/
LOCATION:Menino Arts Center\, 26 Central Avenue\, Hyde Park\, MA\, 02136\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/NEPC-@-The-Menino-Barbara-Cassidy-Jennifer-M-Phillips-Vijaya-Sundaram.png
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T150000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260413T135211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T121354Z
UID:8919-1780236000-1780239600@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Diana Cole\, Paula J. Lambert\, Gail Hanlon
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, kicks off on Sunday\, May 31. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake 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 can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. \nDiana Cole\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, has been published in over 60 poetry journals\, including Poetry East\, Spillway\, The Public’s Radio 89.3\, Friends Journal\, Verse Daily\, and Orison Books. For five years\, she was a senior editor for The Crosswinds Poetry Journal. In 2025\, she was awarded first place in the Notable Works Poetry Initiative\, judged by Tina Cane\, RI Poet Laureate Emerita. As a singer and vocal coach based in Massachusetts for over 40 years\, she offers workshops to poets in Reading Aloud. In addition to her writing\, she is a stained-glass artist working in Warren\, RI. To connect artists and poets\, she organizes Ekphrastic events for various galleries in Rhode Island. Her chapbook\, Songs by Heart\, was published by Iris Press\, and in 2018 her full-length book\, Between Selves\, was released in 2023 by Indian Press (Cyberwit.net). More information at dianacolepoets.com. \nPaula J. Lambert has published five full-length poetry collections\, including Terms of Venery\, Revised (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2025)\, and six chapbooks\, including Sinkhole (Bottlecap Press 2025). Lambert\, a native of Shirley\, Massachusetts\, and winner of the New England Poetry Club’s 2023 Amy Lowell Prize\, is  also a literary translator\, small press publisher\, and visual artist. Now living in Columbus\, Ohio\, her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council\, the Greater Columbus Arts Council\, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her mentorship has been recognized by PEN America. She lives in Columbus with her husband\, Dr. Michael Perkins\, a philosopher and technologist. More at www.paulajlambert.com. \nGail Hanlon’s poetry has appeared in The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Cincinnati Review\, CutbankOnline\, The Iowa Review\, Pittsburg Review\, New Letters\, Verse Daily\, and BEST AMERICAN POETRY\, among other journals and anthologies. She has published Silent Letter (Cornerstone 2023) and two chapbooks\, and also edited Voicing Power: Conversations with Visionary Women. Her work received the National Writer’s Union Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the Iowa Review Award and CutBank’s Patricia Goedicke Prize\, and long-listed for Cutbank’s Chapbook Award\, the Tomaž Šalamun Prize at VERSE\, and OSU’s The Journal Wheeler Prize\, among others.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-diana-cole-paula-j-lambert-gail-hanlon/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/5-31-Old-Manse-image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260628T150000
DTSTAMP:20260524T162851
CREATED:20260513T123221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T123221Z
UID:8979-1782655200-1782658800@nepoetryclub.org
SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Carla Panciera\, Ed Meek\, James K. Zimmerman
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s 2026 season at The Old Manse in Concord\, Mass.\, continues on Sunday\, June 28. This free reading will be held under a tent outdoors\, at an accessible venue. \nMake 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 can also deepen your visit by joining a guided tour of the historic house before or after the event. \nLearn more and pre-register for a tour: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/.  \nCarla Panciera was born on her family’s dairy farm in Westerly\, Rhode Island. Her poetry collections include Cider Press Award Winner\, One of the Cimalores\, Bordighera Press Award Winner\, No Day\, No Dusk\, No Love\, and most recently\, One Trail of Longing\, Another of String (also Bordighera).  Her short story collection\, Bewildered\, received AWP’s Grace Paley Award and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She is also the author of Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir. Her work has appeared in numerous journals\, including the New England Review\, Poetry\, Spillway\, Water~Stone Review\, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Carla has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.  A retired high school English teacher\, Panciera lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts. \nEd Meek’s fifth book of poetry is Great Pond. He is also the author of Luck\, a collection of short stories. He has a memoir and a children’s book due out this summer. He writes book reviews for The Arts Fuse. He has had work in The Paris Review\, The Sun\, The Boston Globe\, The North American Review\, and The Baltimore Review\, among other publications. He teaches creative writing at the Osher Institute. \nJames K. Zimmerman’s poetry appears in Chicago Quarterly Review\, Folio\, Lumina\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Rattle\, Reed\, Salmagundi\, and numerous other journals and anthologies. A thirteen-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, his writing has won many awards\, including the Edwin Markham\, E.E. Cummings\, Vern Cowles\, Pat Schneider\, and Hart Crane Prizes. He is the author of five books of poetry – most recently The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen\, Uncertainty\, and Unbroken Circle\, Unending Thread. His poetry is featured on websites such as The Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry. He values his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative process.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-carla-panciera-ed-meek-james-k-zimmerman/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/6-28-Old-Manse-image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR