Summer Poetry Festival
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, MassachusettsThe Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and beyond. Elizabeth Gordon McKim is a poet, teacher, and spoken word artist, whose roots are embedded in the oral tradition of song, story and ... 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
Longfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsKick off the summer with a celebration of emerging poets! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and elementary school students. Students will read their winning poems at this ceremony, followed by a celebration on the lawn. The contest aims to encourage and ... Read moreLongfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts(Note: in the event of rain, this event will be held in the Longfellow Carriage House AND livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@LONGNPS/streams.) Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gail Mazur grew up in Auburndale, MA. Since the 1960s she has lived primarily in Cambridge and Provincetown, with periods in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles. In 1973, she ... Read more2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
Sam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsThe Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and beyond. Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press. She is an award-winning author of six poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her poems have been ... Read moreSam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
Longfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MassachusettsWriter/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s (she/her) recent books are Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, and the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, co-created with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield and winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award, and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, co-created with Alexandra Teague and Miller Oberman. Her poems have appeared in The Slowdown, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, ... Read moreLongfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
Longfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts(Please note: this event was originally scheduled for July 14, 2024.) Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. She is the ... Read moreLongfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris