Here are the exciting member news announcements we made in March 2025!
The Silver Note Arlington poetry anthology was released. Check out this interview with Jean Flanagan by NEPC Board Member Doug Holder: https://loom.ly/IFCVYvY
Book announcement! NEPC Member Angela Patten’s “Feeding the Wild Rabbit,” published by Kelsay Books in December 2024 and available online here: https://loom.ly/XXANTxk. This is the poet’s fifth poetry collection.
NEPC Board Member Lloyd Schwartz’s poem “Corona Blues” appears in the latest issue of Lily Poetry Review, published in November 2024. You can learn more about Lily Poetry Review at: https://loom.ly/k1LC9KE
Also, Lloyd Schwartz’s FOLHAS, a bilingual edition of his poems translated into Portuguese by Maria Lucia Milleo Martins and Regina Przybicien, published by Letras, 2024 is available on Amazon: https://loom.ly/pG_2dvc
Steven Ratiner, the NEPC President, has just published a new collection, GRIEF’S APOSTROPHE, from Beltway Editions. Steven Ratiner will hold the launch event at The Blacksmith House, reading with Jonathan Aaron. March 24th, 8 p.m. IN-PERSON ONLY 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA. Admission is $5 (and tickets are only at the door.). You can purchase the book at https://loom.ly/0a0hsqY
NEPC Member Susan Eisenberg’s five poems — “What Did the Road Do?” “Unwelcomes Now Welcome”; “Medical Ethics”; “Welcome to the Third World”; and “This Is Not First Grade” — were published in the Winter 2024 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review and were selected for the Emily Clark Balch Prize in Poetry. You can learn more at https://loom.ly/R0hmiGc
NEPC board member Doug Holder’s poetry has been included in three new anthologies “Speaking For Everyone,” “Anthropoetics,” both edited by Eric Greinke, Gary Metras, Peter Krok, and Alan Britt ( Amazon), and “Bagels with the Bards 17,” edited by William Falcetano (Wilderness House Press).
The Mass Cultural Council has awarded NEPC Member Susan Eisenberg a 2025 Grant for Creative Individuals! Congratulations Susan! For a complete list of awards, please see https://loom.ly/j6-xuPs
NEPC Member Owen Lewis’ new book “A Prayer of Six Wings” will be published by Dos Madres Press on April 8, 2025.
A Prayer of Six Wings is an account of the poet’s experience in the year following Hamass Al-Aqsa Flood Massacre on October 7, 2023. The poems portray the complexity of grief shared by so many Jews for the horror of the events of October 7, the subsequent war and suffering in Gaza, and the frightening spectre of rising anti-semitism. Introduction by poet and national book award finalist, Alicia Ostriker.
NEPC Member, Board Advisor, and Member News Editor Trapper Markelz’s poem, “Hey, Babe, Can You Come Here for a Second?” was published in the March 2025 Issue #21 of Hare’s Paw Literary Review. You can read the poem by clicking the author’s name here: https://loom.ly/3_EL9mw
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