Hi everyone! Here is a recap of all the great member news announced in July 2025. Remember, if you are an NEPC members, you can have your news announced too by submitting it at: https://nepoetryclub.org/submit-member-news/
NEPC board member Doug Holder published a new book: I Ain’t Gonna Wait for Godot No More. Congrats Doug!
Now available in paperback on Lulu: 👉 https://loom.ly/jQ_RqHc
NEPC Member Barbara Cassidy shared a string of recent poetry features!
🖋️ “The Fens” – Appears in The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Issue Seven (June 2025). Print copies available: 7moredays2020@gmail.com
🖋️ “Out of Love” – Published by Poetry Super Highway (June 2). Read it here: https://loom.ly/iAMQQ1I
🖋️ “Last Wishes” – Featured by WILDsound Poetry Festival (July 5). Read it here: https://loom.ly/OhHrKjo0
🌿 “The Clearing” – Now on view at The Martin Poetry Path in Newton, MA (since June 7). Plan your visit: https://share.google/SrYWbgMT0x8ApaaF9
NEPC Member Beth Ann Hooper’s debut novel The Roots That Clutch, which also includes some of her poetry, was named the 2024 Winner Book Cover Design and Distinguished Favorite World Literature by the Independent Press Award. The novel was also named Distinguished Favorite in World Literature 2024 by the NYC Big Book Award.
Based on a true story, The Roots That Clutch tells the story of a budding young poet and writer who discovers through her PhD research on the great poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound that her grandmother had had an affair with the other titan of Modernist poetry, William Carlos Williams.
You can learn more about the book at: https://loom.ly/ZDN-ZGU
NEPC Member Beth Ann Hooper was interviewed about her book, poetry, and films on The Writers’ Den by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project on WKXL Talk Radio. Listen to the podcast here: https://loom.ly/5fBiuJ8
New Book Announcements! NEPC member Elizabeth Sylvia’s chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties, finalist for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Award and published by Ballerini Books Press, is available now. Get it here: https://loom.ly/8lBX09A
NEPC member Jonas Zdanys shared a flurry of incredible accomplishments:
1️⃣ Weaving Shade: Contemporary Dream Poetry, an international anthology edited by Jonas, will be published this fall by Lamar University Press. It’s a companion to his acclaimed Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry.
2️⃣ He received a grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture for Išeivystės fragmentai (Immigration Fragments), his sixth poetry book written in Lithuanian and published in Lithuania.
3️⃣ My Uncle’s Watch was released as a handmade fine arts edition by Gray Willow Press in collaboration with Forgetgutenberg and Timberline Press.
4️⃣ He’s been selected for the Australian anthology 100 Poets, edited by Brian Purcell and Kit Kelen (Flying Island Books, 2025).
5️⃣ Jonas is profiled in Heritage, Connection, Writing, a new book by Prof. Laima Vincė on North American Lithuanian diaspora writers, to be published globally by Peter Lang.
6️⃣ His ekphrastic poetry is featured in Ekphrastic Poetry: An Introduction by Prof. Cassandra Atherton, coming this fall from Princeton University Press.
Check out this review by Dennis Daly of NEPC Board Member Doug Holder’s new chapbook, “I Ain’t Gonna Wait for Godot, No More.” Daly calls it “maddening at times… funny… sad… ravenous,” and a thoughtful take on mortality and meaning. Read the review at: https://loom.ly/2t3VZ4o
That’s it for this month!