Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Student Poetry Award Reading
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsWinners of the Longfellow Poetry contests (grades 3-8), the NEPC High School Poetry contests (grades 9-12), and the Victor Howes Award will read their work on the lawn of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters.
Poetry Reading: Magdalena Gómez and Enzo Silon Surin
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsMagdalena Gómez is the Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA and a Poetry Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry collection, Shameless Woman, (Red Sugarcane Press, NYC) is studied in Latinx curricula throughout the U.S. Her ground-breaking memoir noir, M’ija, will be released in hardcover in spring of 2022 by Heliotrope Books, NYC. Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning ... Read morePoetry Reading: Magdalena Gómez and Enzo Silon Surin
Poetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsMartha Collins has published ten volumes of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published four volumes of co-translated Vietnamese poetry, most recently Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap (Milkweed, 2013, with the author), and edited a number of anthologies. Her ... Read morePoetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev
Golden Rose Poetry Award: Patricia Smith
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsPatricia Smith is the winner of the 2022 Golden Rose, one of America’s oldest literary prizes. Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Her ... Read moreGolden Rose Poetry Award: Patricia Smith
Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Elizabeth McKim and Askia Touré
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsElizabeth Gordon McKim is a poet, teacher, and spoken word artist, whose roots are embedded in the oral tradition of song, story and chant. Born in Hartford Connecticut in 1938, she has authored six collections of poetry, including The Red Thread (2003) and Lovers in the Free Fall (2020). She is the poet laureate of the European Graduate School for ... Read moreSam Cornish Poetry Award: Elizabeth McKim and Askia Touré
Poetry Reading: Chen Chen and Natalie Shapero
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsChen Chen’s second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is out from BOA Editions this September. His first book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award. A 2022 United States Artists Fellow, ... Read morePoetry Reading: Chen Chen and Natalie Shapero