Member News Announcements for September 2024

NEPC Jen Payne’s “Sleeping with Ghosts: Poems & Musings” published by Three Chairs Publishing, available now. This is the poet’s fifth book.

NEPC member Richard Dey has recently published “Collected Bequia Poems 1971-2021”, with Offshore Press. Available now at The Grolier Poetry Book Shop or contact rdeyop@gmail.com. Many of these poems were first published in Poetry, The Harvard Advocate, Harvard Magazine, Caribbean Writer, Caribbean Compass, Sail magazine, Hawaii Review and The Poetry Porch, among others. A retired commercial fisherman, yacht skipper, and freelance journalist, he lives side-lined in Needham with an incomplete spinal cord injury.

Laura Pelton-Sweet’s “And Yes, This Too” published by Finishing Line Press, available now. This is the poet’s first chapbook.