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SUMMARY:Sophie Cabot Black Geometry of the Restless Herd. Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Poet Sophie Cabot Black visits Boston with her recent book; Geometry of the Restless Herd  from which she will offer a reading of poems. \n“In Geometry of the Restless Herd Sophie Cabot Black stages a powerful allegory for the social and political realities of our human world. Through hauntingly metaphysical poems set within a sheepherder’s domain\, Black conjures fields of harvest and resurrection\, of wagers and outcomes—animals to keep\, and those to send to slaughter. Here\, both singular voices and polyvocal choruses ask\, Who has the real power\, and how are we to survive the violence we do to one another? \nCooper Canyon Press \nSophie Cabot Black has three poetry collections from Graywolf Press\, The Misunderstanding of Nature\, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award\, The Descent\, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award\, The Exchange.  Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, and The Paris Review. Cooper Canyon Press publishes Geometry  of the Restless Herd in 2024. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/sophie-cabot-black-geometry-of-the-restless-herd/
LOCATION:Brookline Public Library\, Coolidge Corner\, 31 Pleasant Street\, Brookline\, MA\, 02446\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Sara Epstein\, Denise Provost\, Gary Whited
DESCRIPTION:(L to R: Gary Whited\, Sara Epstein\, Denise Provost)\nJoin the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons. \nExtend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River. \nMay poets: \nDr. Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices\, including writing\, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly\, Amethyst Review\, Chest Journal\, Nixes Mate Review\, Plainsongs\, museum of americana\, among others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review.  Bar of Rest is her first book of poetry. \nDenise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (Ibbetson Street Press\, 2019) and City of Stories (Červená Barva Press\, 2021).  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street\, Constellations\, Muddy River Poetry Review\, qarrtsiluni\, Quadrille\, Poetry Porch\, Red Eft\, Sonnet Scroll\, Sanctuary\, Light Quarterly\, and in Bagel Bards anthologies.  Twice Pushcart-nominated\, Provost received the 2012 Best Love Sonnet award from the 2012 Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition\, and the New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022. Provost served from 2006-2021 in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. \nGary Whited is a poet\, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled\, Having Listened\, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award\, and in 2015 was translated into Russian and a bilingual edition was published. His new book\, Being\, There includes new poems along with his translation of the ancient Greek fragments of Parmenides from the 5th century BCE. This book dances between the poetic voice of Parmenides and the poetic remembrances of a young life on a prairie cattle ranch. His poems have appeared in journals\, including Salamander\, Plainsongs\, The Aurorean\, Atlanta Review\, Comstock Review\, The Wayfarer\, Poetry Daily and The Red Letters.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-sara-epstein-denise-provost-gary-whited/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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SUMMARY:Meet Our Poets: Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems & Poems They Love
DESCRIPTION:Meet Our Poets: Somerville Poets Reading Their Own Poems and Poems They Love \nThis once-in-a-lifetime reading includes the largest array of Somerville poets ever assembled. More than 30 Somerville poets will each be reading one of their own poems and a poem they love by a poet of their choice. The poets include Jennifer Badot\, Simeon Berry\, David Blair\, Zack Bond\, Elizabeth Callahan\, Parama Chattopadhyay\, Jennifer Clarvoe\, Linda Conte\, Linda Haviland Conte\, Donna Donna\, Gary Duehr\, Kirk Etherton\, Michael Franco\, Bridget Seley Galway\, Seth Garcia\, Doug Holder\, Katherine Hollander\, Lucy Holstedt\, Gloria Mindock\, Tam Lin Neville\, Pat Peterson\, Denise Provost\, Andrea Read\, Hilary Sallick\, Lloyd Schwartz\, Michael Steffen\, Janaka Stucky\, Patrick Sylvain\, Gilmore Tamny\, Christie Towers\, Anna Warrock\, and Dan Wuenschel. \nThis free event\, organized by Somerville Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz with the Somerville Arts Council\, will take place at the Somerville Armory\, 191 Highland Avenue\, on Sunday\, April 28\, at 5:30 PM. \nIt is free and fully accessible.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/meet-our-poets-somerville-poets-reading-their-own-poems-poems-they-love/
LOCATION:Somerville Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz\, Somerville Armory 191 Highland Avenue\, Somerville\, MA\, 02143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Manse: Martha Collins\, Merryn Rutledge\, Timothy Gager
DESCRIPTION:Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons. \nExtend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River. \nApril poets: \nMartha Collins has published eleven books of poetry\, most recently Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh\, 2022) and Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh\, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has co-translated five volumes of Vietnamese poetry\, most recently Dreaming the Mountain by Tuệ Sỹ\, with Nguyen Ba Chung (Milkweed\, 2023)\, and co-edited\, with Kevin Prufer\, Into English: Poems\, Translations\, Commentaries  (Graywolf\, 2017).  Collins founded the U.Mass. Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com. \nBestselling author Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry\, which includes his latest novel\, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge\, MA from 2001 to 2018\, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over one thousand works of fiction and poetry published\, eighteen nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award\, The Best of the Web\, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023\, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work\, with 150 pages of new material: The Best of Timothy Gager. Timothy served as the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review for ten years\, and was the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware\, Timothy lives in Dedham\, Massachusetts. \nMerryn Rutledge is a poet\, reviewer\, and teacher of poetry as craft. Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed (Kelsay Books\, 2023) features poems about her forebears in the American South\, challenges like grief\, and reflections on the costs of racism.  Her poems have appeared widely in journals throughout the world and in several anthologies\, such as All Shall Be Well (Amythest Press\, 2023)\, an anthology celebrating the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. Merryn’s reviews of new poetry books by women have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly and Pedestal\, for example. After earning a Masters and BA with honors in English from Smith College\, Merryn taught literature\, writing\, and film studies at Phillips Exeter Academy. In a second career\, she earned a doctorate in leadership and led a national leadership development consulting firm. During that period\, essays based on her field research on leadership were published in the peer-reviewed journals and in books. Merryn enjoys working for social justice causes\, singing\, dancing\, and playing on the shore near her home south of Boston.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-manse-martha-collins-merryn-rutledge-timothy-gager/
LOCATION:Old Manse\, 269 Monument St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
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SUMMARY:Medford Historical Society & Museum: Denise Bergman\, Kevin Gallagher\, Max Heinegg\, Scott Ruescher
DESCRIPTION:Join Medford High School English teacher and poet Max Heinegg and three other New England Poetry Club poets for a night of poetry and song. Please note that seating is limited: register here for free tickets. \nMax Heinegg is the author of Going There (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2023) and Good Harbor (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2022)\, winner of the Paul Nemser Poetry Prize. He has won the Sidney Lanier Poetry Award\, the Emily Stauffer Poetry Prize\, and his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Max 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. \nDenise Bergman is the author of five poetry books. The Shape of the Keyhole is about a woman falsely accused and hanged for murder. Three Hands None unravels assault and its aftermath. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea dismantles the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty. The Telling unfolds a child refugee’s lifelong secret. Seeing Annie Sullivan explores the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher. \nKevin Gallagher\, a poet\, publisher\, and political economist living in Greater Boston\, will present poems from his recent books And Yet it Moves and The Wild Goose.  Gallagher edits spoKe\, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. \nScott Ruescher is the author of Waiting for the Light to Change (Prolific Press\, 2017) and Above the Fold (Finishing Line Press\, forthcoming). His recent poems appear in About Place\, Ohio Today\, Pangyrus\, and the Common Ground\, Latin-American Literary\, and Naugatuck River reviews.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/medford-historical-society-museum-denise-bergman-kevin-gallagher-max-heinegg-scott-ruescher/
LOCATION:Medford Historical Society & Museum\, 10 Governors Avenue\, Medford\, MA\, 02155\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Scholars Carl Rollyson and Melissa Bradshaw discuss the life and work of Amy Lowell. 
DESCRIPTION:  \nWelcome! You are invited to join a Zoom meeting Amy Lowell scholars Melissa Bradshaw and Carl Rollyson. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. \nAn award-winning Amy Lowell scholar\, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw is editing both print and digital editions of the poet’s never-before collected letters. Professor Bradshaw suggests that she will provide some interesting—sometimes conflict-ridden—details of events in the early years of the New England Poetry Club when Lowell was its first president. \nProfessor Carl Rollyson is the author of the recently published biography\, Amy Lowell Anew. His book presents details of Lowell’s unconventional life and critical reassessment of Lowell’s work and legacy. \nCarl Rollyson\, Professor Emeritus of Journalism\, at Baruch College\, CUNY\, has published fourteen biographies\, including Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography and Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries. In 2020\, he published a two volume-biography\, The Life of William Faulkner\, and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.  Podcast: A Life in Biography: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson; website: carlrollyson.com. \nJust published: Sylvia Plath Day by Day\, Volume 1. Volume 2 is forthcoming in August 2024. Also forthcoming: The Making of Sylvia Plath\, William Faulkner On and Off the Page: Essays in Biographical Criticism\, and Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero. \nMelissa Bradshaw teaches writing\, pedagogy\, and literary and cultural studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform our understanding of powerful public women. She has published extensively on Amy Lowell\, co-editing a volume of her poems as well as a volume of scholarly essays about her. Her book\, Amy Lowell\, Diva Poet won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. She has also published on poets Edith Sitwell\, Edna St. Vincent Millay\, Denise Levertov\, and on divas more generally. She is currently working on The Selected Letters of Amy Lowell\, and directs the Amy Lowell Letters Project\, a critical digital edition of Lowell’s collected letters\, for which she was awarded an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication. Read more about the letters project at melissabradshaw.org/amy-lowell-letters-project/ \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-scholars-carl-rollyson-and-melissa-bradshaw-discuss-the-life-and-work-of-amy-lowell/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Fruitlands: Maru Colbert\, Gary Duehr\, A.M. Juster
DESCRIPTION:Maru 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”. \nGary Duehr has taught writing for local universities including BU\, Lesley University and Tufts. His MFA is from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. In 2001 he received an NEA Poetry Fellowship\, and he has also received grants and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the LEF Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His books of poetry include Point Blank (In Case of Emergency Press)\, Winter Light (Four Way Books) and Where Everyone Is Going To (St. Andrews College Press\,). His children’s book in verse is Felicia the Ferret and the Atom Smasher from Thurston Howl Publications. \nA.M. Juster is the poetry editor for Plough. His poems and translations have appeared in Poetry\, The Paris Review and The Hudson Review. He is the only three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award\, and has won the Barnstone Translation Prize\, the Richard Wilbur Award\, and four different prizes of the New England Poetry Club. His eleven books include Horace’s Satires (U Penn Press 2008\,) Tibullus’ Elegies (Oxford U Press 2012)\, Aldhelm’s Riddles (U Toronto Press 2016) and Wonder and Wrath (Paul Dry Books 2020). Paul Dry Books will publish his first children’s book\, Girlatee\, and W.W. Norton will publish his translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere. \nThe reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.\n\nReadings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery\, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults\, seniors\, students\, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.\n\nRegistration suggested
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/fruitlands-maru-colbert-gary-duehr-a-m-juster/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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SUMMARY:Four Poets at the Waltham Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:Prepare for a unique tapestry of history and verse! The Waltham Historical Society and the New England Poetry Club join forces on March 12th\, 7:00 PM\, to explore Waltham’s rich spirit\, and more\, through the voices of: \n\nBarbara de la Cuesta\, poet and novelist\, weaving Waltham tales that transcend time.\nOwen Lewis\, Professor of Psychiatry and Narrative Medicine\, bridging the gap between personal home and Berkshires history.\nJessica Lucci\, local author and poet\, capturing the essence of Waltham in lyrical strokes.\nGail Thomas\, poet\, painting vivid Swift River Valley portraits with words.\n\nThis captivating evening promises to be a journey through the past\, present\, and possibilities of diverse Massachusetts locales. Free and open to the public. \nBarbara de la Cuesta taught and worked as a journalist in South America\, and is now a teacher of English as a Second Language and Spanish. Out of this experience came her two prize winning novels\, The Spanish Teacher\, winner of the Gival Press Award in 2007\, and Rosa\, winner of the Driftless Novella Prize from Brain Mill Press in 2017. She has also published two collections of poetry with Finishing Line Press\, as well as two novels\, The Mists\, and Henrietta Rose. Her collection of short stories\, The Place Where Judas Lost his Boots\, has recently won The Brighthorse Prize for short fiction. \nAdam’s Chair is a peek into the City of Waltham\, past\, present—the future perhaps represented by the shuttle Columbia orbiting above on the day of April 11\, 1981\, when the book opens with an old French Canadian\, Alcide Arsenault\, retired from the Mill\, entering Mt. Feake Cemetery\, whose neighborhoods reflect the city’s own\, just before dawn. Priscilla\, descendant of the city’s founders\, college drop-out\, Socialist since thirteen\, now home health aide\, sets out on her rounds on her bicycle. Thus the day begins: A harpsichord arrives at city hall. A parachutist lands in Leary field. Participants in the daycenter are oriented to reality and the mayor visits to celebrate Adie Blakey’s hundredth birthday\, the shuttle sends down messages … \nOwen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry and three chapbooks\, most recently Knock-knock. Field Light\, was a Distinguished Favorite\, 2020 NYCBigBook Award and a 2021 “Must Read”\, Mass Book Awards.  best man was the recipient of the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Recent prizes include the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize and the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry/Arts & Letters. He is also recipient of the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.  At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine. \nThe epicenter of Field Light is the back porch of “The Dormouse\,” 1922\, home of Peggy Cresson\, daughter of Daniel Chester French. In a photo she sits with her husband and the granddaughter-in-law of Harriet Beecher Stowe\, a neighbor. The author\, in 2018\, sits on the same porch of the same house\, his home for nearly thirty years\, pondering that photo. He begins to question how one can know history\, discovering personal connections to the history surrounding him. The book weaves a personal telling of Berkshire history\, spanning the years when the land was “owned” by Munsie\, to the trial in 1782 in Great Barrington that freed enslaved people of Massachusetts\, to the years of the socially elite and beyond. In this historical collage\, the writers\, artists\, musicians\, and even some physicians\, of the Berkshires speak. \nJessica Lucci is a poet\, steampunk\, and historical fiction author who writes about modern issues while maintaining historic integrity.  She makes her home in Waltham\, Mass.\, where she serves as president of the Waltham Arts Council\, and on the board of directors of the Waltham Museum and High Tech Waltham.  She also helps organize faires and festivals in Waltham\, such as Waltham Pride\, and Kaleidoscope. She was the featured artist for her poetry at Watch City Arts\, May\, 2023. \nHer haiku were included in an installation commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Minuteman Bikeway.  More haiku have been installed in store windows in Arlington and Lexington.  Her poetry was included in the “Moody Street Art Walk” in 2023. Her works include the steampunk novellas Waltham Watch and Salem Switch\, the soon-to-be published historical fiction novella Triangle House\, and the poetry collections How Can I Steal a Purse and Graveyard Shift. \nGail Thomas’ books are Trail of Roots\, Leaving Paradise\, Odd Mercy\, Waving Back\, No Simple Wilderness\, and Finding the Bear. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies including CALYX\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, North American Review\, Cumberland River Review\, and Mezzo Cammin. Among her awards are the Seven Kitchens Press award for Trail of Roots\, the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press for Odd Mercy\, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read” for Waving Back. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross\, and several poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry with Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshops\, visits schools and libraries with her therapy dog Sunny\, and works with immigrant and refugee communities in Western Massachusetts. \nNo Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley is about the four towns and seven villages that were drowned and the 3\,500 people who were displaced to build the Quabbin Reservoir. Thomas interviewed elders who grew up in the Valley\, and their voices are represented throughout the book which has been used as a text in college courses.  From the book’s forward: “Sometimes a work of poetry is an act of reclamation as it is in No Simple Wilderness.  With these poems\, Thomas attains a seamlessness not only between past and present but between personal and public\, a seamlessness that is succinct\, powerful\, and entirely essential.” – Jane Brox
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/four-poets-at-the-waltham-historical-society/
LOCATION:Waltham Historical Society\, 260 Grove St.\, Waltham\, MA\, 02453\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary: A Tribute to Amy Lowell at All She Wrote Books
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Thursday\, March 7\, at 7 pm\, poets CD Collins\, Melissa Nilles\, and D Donna will read and talk about Amy Lowell’s poetry\, influence\, and legacy in the casual and welcoming atmosphere of All She Wrote Books\, an intersectional feminist and queer bookstore in East Somerville. The bookstore is accessible to those who need disability accommodations. \nPlease register for the event at the Eventbrite link below: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-a-tribute-to-amy-lowell-all-she-wrote-books-tickets-835993407787?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios \n\nGetting There: 3 min walk from the East Somerville Green Line T stop\, 14 min walk from the Sullivan Square Orange line T stop.\n\n\nKentucky native CD Collins follows the storytelling traditions of the South\, both as a solo artist and when accompanied by musicians. Collins was named the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Malden\, Massachusetts and has been selected as a Red-Letter Poet by Steven Ratiner. Collins is the author of Blue Land\, a collection of short stories (First Trade Edition\, Polyho Press); a poetry collection\, Self-Portrait with Severed Head (Ibbetson Street Press); and the novel Afterheat (Empty City Press). She has appeared at Berklee College of Music\, the Boston Public Library\, Boston’s ICA\, the New York Public Library\, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. \nMelissa Nilles is a musician\, composer\, writer\, poet\, expressive arts therapist\, and licensed mental health counselor living in Somerville\, MA with her partner and the extraordinary Siberian cat Prince Siddhartha. Nilles is the owner of a small private psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy practice in Somerville serving creative people going through life/career transitions\, LGBTQ+ individuals\, or people with ADHD\, anxiety\, or trauma. She is the frontwoman (lead vocalist\, lyricist\, and keyboardist) of Boston-based band Ruby Grove (2022- now)\, which is a New England Music Award-nominated multi-genre indie alternative musical project inspired by trip-hop\, soul\, indietronica\, and indie rock. \nD Donna (they/any) has spent the last five years basking in the warm light of Boston’s queer\, trans\, and poet communities. They have not\, in all that time\, figured out how to write an introductory bio. But they love reading poems\, and they love all of you\, and that’ll be enough for now.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-a-tribute-to-amy-lowell-at-all-she-wrote-books/
LOCATION:All She Wrote Books\, 75 Washington St\,\, Somerville\, MA\, 02143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; The Public Library of Brookline; Multilingual Reading of her poems
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nJoin us to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Brookline poet Amy Lowell \nThe New England Poetry Club\, The Public Library of Brookline\, along with the Brookline Commission for the Arts\, will celebrate Amy Lowell’s life and work with an introduction to her poetry and readings of her poems in the original English\, as well as translations into other languages. \n  \nProgram: \nVideo Introduction\nIntroduction to Amy Lowell\nMultilingual Reading\nReception. \nThe program will feature poets from Brookline and the Greater Boston area\, including current Brookline poet laureate Jennifer Barber and previous Brookline poets laureate. Mary Buchinger of the New England Poetry Club will present Amy Lowell. \nA full list of presenters will be available soon. \nhttps://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mov-amy-17.mp4
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-the-public-library-of-brookline-multilingual-reading-of-her-poems/
LOCATION:The Public Library of Brookline\, 361 Washington Street\,\, Brookline\, MA\, 02445\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T150000
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SUMMARY:Fruitlands: Chard deNiord\, Robbie Gamble\, Pamela Gemme
DESCRIPTION:(Left to right: Pamela Gemme\, Chard deNiord\, Robbie Gamble) \nChard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry\, most recently In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020)\, Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2019)\, and The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2011). He is also the author of two books of interviews with eminent American poets: Sad Friends\, Drowned Lovers\, Stapled Songs\, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press\, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could  (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2018). deNiord is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College. From 2015 to 2019 he served as poet laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West\, Vermont with his wife\, Liz. \nRobbie Gamble (he/him) received an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. His poems and essays have appeared in Post Road\, Pangyrus\, Salamander\, The Sun\, Tahoma Literary Review\, and The Worcester Review. His chapbook A Can of Pinto Beans\, published by Lily Poetry Review Press\, was a finalist for the 2022 Jean Pedrick Award. His essay “Exit Wound” was cited as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. Robbie is the poetry editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices\, and he divides his time between Boston and Vermont. \nPamela Gemme was born to working class parents and grew up in Gardner\, Massachusetts. She went to state universities\, is a poet\, artist\, political activist\, and a child protection social work consultant for Massachusetts’s DCF. Recent or forthcoming publications include The American Journal of Poetry\, Pangyrus\, Haiku Journal\, The Chicago Quarterly Review\, Heliotrope Anthology\, J Journal\, SoFloPoJo\, Ibbetson Street Magazine\, and many others. Pamela was a Reader for Lily Poetry Review 2019\, Art Editor Lily Poetry Review 2018-2019\, and won Two Poetry-In-Place Awards for the city of Newton\, Massachusetts. Her poem “Working the Child at Risk Hotline” received an Honorable Mention in the Common Ground Review Spring 2021. She was on the poet’s committee for the first National Baseball Poetry Festival\, and co-edited Essential Voices: A Covid-19 Anthology (West Virginia University Press\, 2023). \nThe reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.\n\n\nReadings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery\, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults\, seniors\, students\, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.\n\n\nRegistration suggested
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/fruitlands-chard-deniord-robbie-gamble-pamela-gemme/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T140000
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SUMMARY:Visit New England Poetry Club at Radio Show\, "Open Reading" hosted by Sal Inglima
DESCRIPTION:New England Poetry Club Board Members will visit the at Somerville Media Center\, Radio Show\, “Open Reading” hosted by Sal Inglima. \nConversation about Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary\, her life\, events and reading poems by Denise Provost\, Linda Conte\, Doug Holder and Nidia Hernández. \nSal Inglima’s Open Reading brings the poets of Somerville and beyond to Boston Free Radio.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/visit-new-england-poetry-club-at-radio-show-open-reading-hosted-by-sal-inglima/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T143000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; Wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nThe first of this year’s Amy Lowell events will be a wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge in collaboration with Friends Mount Auburn Cemetery. \nIt will take place on her birthday\, Friday\, February 9th\, at 1 pm. \nIf you are so inclined\, please bring a Lowell poem to read as part of this event. \nWe’ll have other events\, including readings and discussions\, to celebrate Lowell’s literary – and lyrical – legacies. \n  \nhttps://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mov-amy-17.mp4
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-wreath-laying-at-her-grave-at-mt-auburn-cemetery/
LOCATION:Mount Auburn Cemetery\, 580 Mt Auburn St\,\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240210
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Networks taken by Amy Lowell Poems.
DESCRIPTION:https://nepoetryclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mov-amy-17.mp4\n  \nThis February 9\, marks 150 years since Amy Lowell’s birth\, throughout the day we will be offering readings of her poems in the voices of important poets\, both her American peers and her peers from around the world. We will extend these readings throughout the year 2024 to celebrate its 150th Anniversary. \nWe are going to take over the networks with videos of poets reading Amy Lowell. \nAmy Lowell in the voices of all the poets on networks. \nEveryone read Amy Lowell on the networks. \nHashtag: #amylowell150. \n \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-networks-taken-by-amy-lowell-poems/
LOCATION:Social networks\, Instagram\, FaceBook\, X\, Linkedin
CATEGORIES:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T150000
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SUMMARY:Fruitlands: Mary Buchinger\, Timothy Gager\, John L. Holgerson
DESCRIPTION:(Left to right: Timothy Gager\, Mary Buchinger\, John L. Holgerson) \nMary 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\, and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club. \nBestselling author Timothy Gager has published 18 books of fiction and poetry\, which includes his latest novel\, Joe the Salamander. He hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge\, MA from 2001 to 2018\, and started a weekly virtual series in 2020. He has had over one thousand works of fiction and poetry published\, eighteen nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Book Award\, The Best of the Web\, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio. In 2023\, Big Table Publishing published an anthology of twenty years of his selected work\, The Best of Timothy Gager\, with 150 pages of new material. Timothy served as the Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review for ten years\, and was the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review. A graduate of the University of Delaware\, Timothy lives in Dedham\, Massachusetts. \nJohn L. Holgerson is the author of three books of poetry: Convictions of the Heart (In Case of Emergency Press 2021)\, Unnecessary Tattoo and Other Stains on a Stainless Steel Heart (Finishing Line Press 2016) and Broken Borders (Wasteland Press 2012). He has published poems in small literary journals\, in print and online. He is listed in the Poets & Writers’ Magazine Directory of Poets and Writers\, is one of three MassPoetry representatives for Bristol County and co-hosts For the Love of Words\, an hour long program on Easton Cable Access Television featuring a different poet and  musician each month. He lives most of the year in Taunton\, MA and is the founder of the Poetry as Verdict project providing a public venue for high school student-poets to read their work. Since 1995\, he resides the rest of each year on the Greek island of Hydra. Please see johnlholgerson.com. \nThe reading will be held in the Fruitlands Museum Wayside Visitor Center. Parking is available next to the building and the Visitor Center is wheelchair accessible.\n\nReadings are free with admission to the Museum’s Art Gallery\, Gift Shop and Visitor’s Center: $5 for nonmember adults\, seniors\, students\, and children ages 5-13. There is no charge for Trustees Members or children under age 5.\n\nRegistration suggested \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/fruitlands-mary-buchinger-timothy-gager-john-l-holgerson/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T000000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary; Wreath-laying at her grave at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nIt will take place on her birthday\, Friday\, February 9th\, at 3:30 pm.   \nIf you are so inclined\, please bring a Lowell poem to read as part of this event.  \nWe’ll have other events\, including readings and discussions\, to celebrate Lowell’s literary – and lyrical – legacies. \n 
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/amy-lowell-150th-anniversary-wreath-laying-at-her-grave-at-mt-auburn-cemetery-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Member Celebration Online
DESCRIPTION:Our first Member Celebration in March 2023 was a joyful event\, featuring a wide variety of voices. Please join us for the second Celebration! \nTo attend\, register in advance here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcuytrT0iGNfUyhtRETnjxahnxr4nFbv7. You will receive an individual Zoom link.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/member-celebration-online/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Fruitlands. Jhonny Victor\, Marie Gauthier\, Len Krisak
DESCRIPTION:Marie 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 as Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts. \nLen Krisak’s most recent books are Say What You Will (original verse) and a complete verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. His work has appeared in the Hudson\, Sewanee\, Antioch\, and Southwest Reviews\, among many others\, and he is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren\, Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost Prizes. Len is also a four-time champion on Jeopardy! \nJhonny Victor is an Haitian American Poet and Author. He uses his native language\, Haitian Creole\, French and English as tools to express his emotions\, his understanding and his philosophy of life through poetry\, lyrics\, essays\, guitar playing\, singing and public speaking. He has published his first poetry collection\, The Working-class and Its Burden\, describing it as inspirational and a call for action. \n  \nRegistration suggested
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/jhonny-victor-marie-gauthier-len-krisak/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231210T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231210T163000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:ZOOM: Rajiv Mohabir\, Lindsey Schaffer\, Cindy Veach
DESCRIPTION:L to R: Lindsey Schaffer\, Rajiv Mohabir\, Cindy Veach \nSunday\, December 10\, 3-4:30 pm \nVia ZOOM: register in advance to receive the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsduqoqTIjH91ENL3VOYcKRXTkpy2BW1zX \nPoet\, 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 Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur. His poetry and nonfiction have been finalists for the 2022 PEN/America Open Book Award\, the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and in Nonfiction\, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction\, and both second place and finalist for the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2022 (poetry and memoir respectively). His translations have won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets in 2020. Whale Aria (Four Way Books 2023) is his fourth collection of poetry and currently he is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder. \n(Purchase Whale Aria) \nLindsey Schaffer is a poet interested in exploring the intersections between creative writing and museum spaces. In particular\, she seeks to understand material culture in the context of the cities in which it is displayed. This focus has led her to unearth a variety of contradictions in two cities which has culminated in two chapbooks\, City of Contradiction (Selcouth Station\, 2022) and Witch City (dancing girl press\, forthcoming). \n(To purchase City of Contradiction\, contact Lindsey on Twitter @LindseyAnn3) \nCindy Veach is the author of Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal and an IPPY Silver Medalist in poetry\, Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press)\, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts Center for the Book ‘Must Read\,’ and the chapbook\, Innocents (Nixes Mate). Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, AGNI\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Poet Lore\, Salamander and elsewhere. A recipient of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Samuel Allen Washington Prize\, she is poetry co-editor of MER. \n(Purchase Gloved Against Blood; Her Kind)
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/rajiv-mohabir-lindsey-schaffer-cindy-veach/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Fruitlands: Ann Bookman\, Mary Beth Hines\, Alfred Nicol
DESCRIPTION:Reading as part of New England Poetry Club’s reading series at Fruitlands Museum\, Harvard\, Mass. \nLeft to right: Alfred Nicol\, Mary Beth Hines\, Ann Bookman \nAnn 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 2012\, she published a chapbook\, Point of Attachment\, with Finishing Line Press. Her first full collection\, Blood Lines\, was published by Kelsay Books in the spring of 2022. After a 40-year career in academia\, she is currently a Senior Fellow at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Writers Center. For more information about her work\, please visit her website: annbookman.com \nMary Beth Hines grew up in Massachusetts where she spent Saturday afternoons falling in love with stories and poems in the Waltham Public Library. A graduate of The College of the Holy Cross\, she also studied for a year at Durham University in England. Following a career in public service (Volpe Center\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts)\, she began a regular creative writing practice. She is an award-winning poet\, an alumna of the Colrain Manuscript Conference\, and recently completed an “Assets for Artists” residency at Mass MoCA with the Boiler House Poets Collective. Kelsay Books published her debut collection\, Winter at a Summer House\, in November 2021. Her poetry appears in Crab Orchard Review\, SWWIM\, Tar River\, Valparaiso\, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.marybethhines.com. \nAlfred Nicol’s translation of One Hundred Visions of War by Julien Vocance\, published in November 2022\, has been called “an essential addition to the history of modernist poetry.” Nicol was the recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems\, Winter Light. His other publications include Animal Psalms and Elegy for Everyone\, and his poems have appeared in Poetry\, The New England Review\, Dark Horse\, Commonweal\, The Formalist\, The Hopkins Review\, Presence and The Best American Poetry 2018. The New England Poetry Club chose Nicol for its 2006 Daniel Varoujan Award and its 2005 Firman Houghton Award. \nRegistration suggested / site information: https://thetrustees.org/event/88750/
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/ann-bookman-mary-beth-hines-alfred-nicol/
LOCATION:Fruitlands Museum\, 102 Prospect Hill Rd\, Harvard\, MA\, 01451
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Sara Backer\, Miriam Levine\, Rodger Martin
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented with the Poetry Society of New Hampshire\, at the Toadstool Bookshop\, Keene. Open mic to follow. \nFor more information: Poetry Society of New Hampshire: https://psnh.org/events/nov11-three-nh-poets/ \nToadstool: https://www.toadbooks.com/event/keene-sara-backer-miriam-levine-and-rodger-martin-all-presenting-their-poetry \n \nSara 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 Poetry Competition\, ten Pushcart nominations\, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi resident artist programs. Recent publications include Lake Effect\, Slant\, CutBank Online\, Kenyon Review\, Poetry Northwest\, and Poetry Ireland. She lives in New Hampshire\, works at UMass Lowell\, and reads for The Maine Review. \nMiriam Levine is the author of Forget about Sleep\, her sixth poetry collection\, winner of the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award\, forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books. Another  collection\, The Dark Opens\, was chosen by Mark Doty for the Autumn House Poetry Prize.  Other books include: Devotion\, a memoir; In Paterson\, a novel. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, The  Kenyon Review\, The Paris Review\, and Ploughshares. Levine\, a winner of a Pushcart Prize\, is a fellow of the NEA and a grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. She lives in Florida and New Hampshire. For more information about her work\, please go to miriamlevine.com. \nRodger Martin’s For All The Tea in Zhōngguó\, 2019\, follows The Battlefield Guide\, and the selection of The Blue Moon Series by Small Press Review as a bi-monthly picks of the year. He’s received an Appalachia award for poetry\, NHSCA’s award for fiction\, and was a finalist for The Stanley Kunitz Medal in 2023. His work has been translated and published in China. He’s a recipient of numerous fellowships. He was co-editor of The Granite State Poetry Series and Managing Editor of The Worcester Review for twenty-seven years. His latest manuscript\, The Sleeping Dogs of Lubec\, is sniffing out publication.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/sara-backer-miriam-levine-rodger-martin/
LOCATION:Toadstool Bookshops\, 12 Emerald St.\, Keene\, NH\, 03431\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T153000
DTSTAMP:20260509T111324
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SUMMARY:Marcia Karp; A Poet in the House Workshop.
DESCRIPTION:An exclusive event for NEPC members: “An Order the Leaves Allow” \n“You can write Click on this link to register for this event” \n \n  \nMarcia 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: 34 Poets\, British and American\, Oxford 2004-2009 (Waywiser); and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton) and in her collection\, If by Song (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2021). \nJoin on Zoom\, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm\,for this discussion of the variety of ways volumes of poems are ordered. Since a book itself is a participant in\, and a witness to\, the order within it\, we will begin by thinking about how the material world of poems – the pages they are on and the variety of books in which they have been collected – might effect and affect their ordering. \nMost of us hope that our own ordering will be discovered by attentive readers whose understanding of what we have done would then be deepened. This Poet in the House session will consider particular arrangements of poems\, including those you might be working on\, as well as general matters. Please come. Enthusiastic disorder is welcome. \n  \nPoet in the House with Marcia Karp \nAn Order the Leaves Allow  \nThis Poet in the House gathering will be a place to talk about a variety of ways volumes of poems\, including your own\, might be ordered. Since a book itself is a participant in\, and a witness to\, the order within it\, we will begin by thinking about how the material world of poems – the pages they are on and the variety of books in which they have been collected – might effect and affect their ordering. \nPapyrus scrolls allowed certain orders that might have some bearing on our own digital scrolls. Books with a spine\, those things beloved of centuries of readers and writers\, make other things possible. \nOne way to look at how a volume might be ordered\, is to start with pieces of papyrus or paper and work backwards. The poem we call “My Cat Jeoffry” was found somewhere in “sixteen folio pages closely written on both sides in the handwriting of Christopher Smart.” If possible\, you will be sent pages that duplicate some of those and together we will try to make sense\, ordered sense\, of what was once considered madness\, and then seen as greatness. \nSome of us hope that our ordering will be discovered by attentive readers whose understanding of what we have done would then be deepened. George Herbert and Sylvia Path took great with arrangements\, only to have those undone by editors. In any case\, readers have their own ways of going through what they read. Anne Ferry wrote “anthologies have the advantage in containing discontinuous\, short pieces suited to the desultory mode of reading that has come to be called dipping.” True\, too\, of volumes of a single author’s poems. What’s a poet to do? \nThis Poet in the House session will consider particular arrangements of poems\, including those you might be working on\, as well as general concerns. Please come. Enthusiastic disorder is welcome.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/zoom-marcia-karp-a-poet-in-the-house-workshop/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Poetry at the Old Manse – October
DESCRIPTION:This outdoor reading is cancelled due to the weather forecast: to be rescheduled. \nSUNDAY\, OCTOBER 22\, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n \nJoin 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. \nExtend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here: https://thetrustees.org/place/the-old-manse/. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River or bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds. \n  \nOctober Poets: \nMary 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\, and earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club. \nDr. Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices\, including writing\, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly\, Amethyst Review\, Chest Journal\, Nixes Mate Review\, Plainsongs\, and museum of americana\, among others. Bar of Rest is her first book of poems\, published this year by Kelsay Books. \n“Transparent\, vulnerable and strong\, Sara’s poems open the reader to a courageous journey of imagery and metaphor that gracefully land in insight\, understanding and healing.”\n––Lani Peterson\, Psy.D\, psychologist and story coach \nMerryn Rutledge is a poet\, reviewer\, and teacher of poetry as craft. Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed (Kelsay Books\, 2023) features poems about her forebears in the American South\, challenges like grief\, and reflections on the costs of racism. Her poems have appeared widely in journals throughout the world and in several anthologies\, such as All Shall Be Well (Amythest Press\, 2023)\, an anthology celebrating the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich. Merryn’s reviews of new poetry books by women have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly and Pedestal\, for example. After earning a Masters and BA with honors in English from Smith College\, Merryn taught literature\, writing\, and film studies at Phillips Exeter Academy. In a second career\, she earned a doctorate in leadership and led a national leadership development consulting firm. During that period\, essays based on her field research on leadership were published in the peer-reviewed journals and in books. Merryn enjoys working for social justice causes\, singing\, dancing\, and playing on the shore near her home south of Boston.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-old-manse-october/
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SUMMARY:ZOOM.  2023 contest prize-winners
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 8\, 3 pm (ET via ZOOM) \n \n  \n  \nNEPC 2023 Prize-Winners’ Reading by the authors of the prize-winning and honorable-mention poems from our annual contests: \n\nSheila Margaret Motton Book Prize\, for full-length poetry collections\nJean Pedrick Chapbook Prize\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 required
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/zoom-2023-contest-prize-winners/
LOCATION:MA
ORGANIZER;CN="New England Poetry Club":MAILTO:info@nepoetryclub.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230924T140000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Old Manse – September
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24\, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n \nJoin the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons. \nExtend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River or bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds. \n  \nSeptember Poets: \nFrances Donovan is the author of Arboretum in a Jar (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2023). Her chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Donovan’s poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review\, Solstice\, Heavy Feather Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. Her interviews of other poets can be found at The Rumpus and on her website\, www.gardenofwords.com. Donovan holds an MFA in poetry from Lesley University and is a certified Poet Educator with Mass Poetry. A poem of hers has been displayed at Boston City Hall. Donovan’s work deals with themes of home\, family\, intergenerational trauma\, and sexual and gender identity. She remembers fondly the summer of 1998\, when she drove a bulldozer in a Pride parade while wearing a bustier. \nMarybeth Rua-Larsen lives on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review\, Magma\, Orbis\, Crannóg\, Measure\, and American Arts Quarterly\, among others. She won the 2011 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition in Poetry in Galway\, Ireland; the 2016 Parent-Writer Fellowship in Poetry from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing; the 2017 Luso-American Fellowship for the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon\, Portugal. She was a Hawthornden Fellow in Scotland in 2019. Her chapbook Nothing In-Between is available from Barefoot Muse Press. \nSusan Jo Russell is a mathematics educator from Somerville\, MA.  Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review\, Chautauqua\, Cider Press Review\, Comstock Review\, EcoTheo Review\, Leon\, Passager\, and elsewhere\, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Her poem\, “Tree\,” won the 2018 Amy Lowell Prize from the New England Poetry Club and “Membrane\,” appears in the collection\, From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry. She co-directs the Brookline (MA) Poetry Series. \n  \nDETAILS\nDate: SUNDAY\, SEPTEMBER 24\, 2023 \n2:00 pm – 3:00 pm \nVENUE\nOld Manse 269 Monument St\nConcord\, MA 01742 + Google Map \nPhone:(978) 369-3909 View Venue Website
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-old-manse-september/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230903T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230903T180000
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SUMMARY:Nature Poetry in the Park
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 3\, 2023.  Free and open to the public. Fully accessible (with rest rooms) \n \nMagazine Beach Park Nature Center\, 668 Memorial Dr\, Cambridge\, MA 02139. \nThree 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 intimate relationship with the natural world-nature as solace and nourishment\, and nature under threat from habitat loss and climate change. In the spirit of eco-poetry\, these are poems that comfort\, but also that urge and awaken\, taking as their premise that the human and natural worlds are interdependent. After the poets share their poems\, there will be time for comments and questions. \nLinda Haviland Conte is the author of the full-length collection Seldom Purely and the chapbook Slow as a Poem (Ibbetson Street Press). Her work has appeared in the anthologies From the Farther Shore\, Constellations\, Bagels with the Bards\, and Connecticut River Review. Linda has been featured in Verse Daily and WCAI’s Poetry Sunday. Her poems have received recognition from state and national poetry societies. Linda serves on the board of The New England Poetry Club. (lindaconte.net). Linda lives in Somerville\, MA. \nWendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection\, Notes from the Column of Memory\, was published in September 2022 by Terrapin Books. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street\, J Journal\, Nimrod\, Pangyrus\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Threepenny Review\, among others. She’s been the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park\, MA\, since 2018\, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club. Wendy lives in Belmont\, MA. \nDenise Washington is so excited to be using the power of poetry to positively bring people together one poem at a time! She is Founder\, CEO and Curator of her #Pop-Up Poetry Series\, A Denise Plays Hard Event Featuring Akili Jamal Haynes\, Becoming Chibuzo\, #Pop-Up Poetry’s Multi-disciplinary Artist! She was born and raised in Roxbury\, Mass.\, is an Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts Alum\, a voice student of the late John Andrew Ross\, a mentee of the late Ed Bullins\, and a New England Poetry Club Advisory Board member.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/nature-poetry-in-the-park/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:Poetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, AUGUST 27\, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT \n \nJoin the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons. \nSponsoring poetry in New England since 1915\, the New England Poetry Club presents readings by poets with ties to the New England states and annual poetry contests. Members of the NEPC benefit from being part of a community of poets\, gathering for readings by members with new books\, and participating in monthly writing workshops. \nExtend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River or bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds. \n  \nAugust Poets: \n  \nCynthia Bargar is Associate Poetry editor at Pangyrus. Her poems have appeared in many journals including Nixes Mate\, SWWIM Every Day\, Driftwood Press\, Rogue Agent\, Book of Matches\, LUMINA and in the book\, Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits by Barbara E. Cohen (Provincetown Arts Press\, 2021). Her poetry collection\, Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room\, came out from Lily Poetry Review Books in January\, 2022. Cynthia lives with her partner\, cartoonist Nick Thorkelson\, in Provincetown\, Massachusetts. \nTom Laughlin is a professor and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Middlesex Community College. He was a founding editor of Vortext\, a literary journal of Massasoit Community College\, a volunteer staff reader for many years for Ploughshares\, and he has taught literature classes in two Massachusetts prisons. His poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review\, Ibbetson Street\, Drunk Monkeys\, Sand Hills Literary Magazine\, Blue Mountain Review\, Superpresent Magazine\, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal\, Molecule\, and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook\, The Rest of the Way\, was released by Finishing Line Press in August 2022. His website is www.TomLaughlinPoet.com \nJess Levens lives with his wife\, sons and dogs in Holliston\, Massachusetts\, where he draws inspiration from New England’s landscapes and history. His debut chapbook\, A Break in the Spine\, is available from Alien Buddha Press\, and his poetry has been published in The Dillydoun Review\, Roi Fainéant Press and Prometheus Dreaming. Jess is a Marine Corps veteran and Northeastern University alum. Follow him on Twitter @levensworks. \n  \nDETAILS\nDate: SUNDAY\, AUGUST 27\, 2023 \n2:00 pm – 3:00 pm \nVENUE\nOld Manse269 Monument St\nConcord\, MA 01742  + Google Map \nPhone:(978) 369-3909View Venue Website
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-at-the-old-manse-august-2023/
LOCATION:MA
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading\, New Books. Mary Buchinger & Hilary Sallick
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 26\, 3-5 pm\n\n\n\nJoin NEPC board members Mary Buchinger and Hilary Sallick \non Saturday\, August 26\, 3-5 PM\, for a joint book launch.\n\n\nMary Buchinger will read from NAVIGATING THE REACH (Salmon Poetry) \nand Hilary Sallick will read from LOVE IS A SHORE (Lily Poetry Review Books).\n \n\nThe event will be held at the St. James Parish Hall\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, \nnear the Porter Square MBTA stop. \nBook signing and reception will follow the reading.\n \nThis is an accessible venue. All are welcome!\n\n \nMary Buchinger will read from \nNAVIGATING THE REACH (Salmon Poetry)\n\n\nHilary Sallick will read from \nLOVE IS A SHORE (Lily Poetry Review Books).
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-new-books-mary-buchinger-hilary-sallick/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230820T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Laura Budofsky Wisniewski & Rajiv Mohabir
DESCRIPTION:Laura 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\, and winner of Ruminate Magazine’s 2020 Janet B. Mccabe Poetry Prize\, the 2019 Poetry International Prize\, and the 2014 Passager Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry International\, Narrative Magazine\, The Missouri Review\, The Chicago Quarterly Review\, Image\, and other journals. Laura lives quietly in a small town in Vermont. \nRajiv Mohabir was selected for the 2014 Intro Prize in Poetry by Four Way Books for his The Taxidermistʻs Cut\, Rajiv Mohabir’s first collection is a finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. His second book The Cowherd’s Son won the 2015 Kundiman Prize. In 2021 Mohabir’s poetry collection Cutlish was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mohabir was also awarded the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for his translation of Lalbihari Sharma’s I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara\, published originally in 1916. In 2019 Mohabir also received the New Immigrant Writing Award from Restless Books for his memoir Antiman. His memoir received a Forward Indies Award for LGBTQ+ Adult Nonfiction. Winner of the inaugural chapbook prize by Ghostbird Press for Acoustic Trauma\, he is the author of three other multilingual chapbooks: Thunder in the Courtyard: Kajari Poems\, A Veil You’ll Cast Aside\, na mash me bone\, and na bad-eye me. In 2021 he collaborated with Aotearoa based poet Rushi Vyas to write Between Us\, Not Half a Saint. While in New York working as a public school teacher\, he also produced the nationally broadcast radio show KAVIhouse on JusPunjabi (2012-2013). He received his PhD in English from the University of Hawai’i and teaches in the BFA/MFA program in the Writing\, Literature\, and Publishing department at Emerson College.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/poetry-reading-laura-budofsky-wisniewski-rajiv-mohabir/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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SUMMARY:2023 Golden Rose Award with Afaa M. Weaver
DESCRIPTION:Afaa 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 Award in playwriting\, the Kingsley Tufts\, and the 2019 St. Botolph Distinguished Artist Award. His collaborative translation and cultural communication projects with Chinese poets in the U.S. and abroad has earned him national recognition in China\, and in Taiwan. He has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. and in Taiwan. At Simmons University he held the Alumnae Chair in English for twenty years. Afaa’s newest collection of poetry is A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen Press). He lives in upstate New York with his wife Kristen Skedgell Weaver. \nphoto by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/2023-golden-rose-award-with-afaa-m-weaver/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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