Join us for a reading of poetry by NEPC members with new books!
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place on Zoom; the link will be sent out via the newsletter or you can email info@nepoetryclub.org.
READER BIOS:
Krikor Der Hohannesian’s poems have appeared in over 175 literary journals including South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, Louisiana Literature, Connecticut Review, Comstock Review and Natural Bridge. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, author of two chapbooks, Ghosts and Whispers(Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Refuge in the Shadows (Cervena Barva Press, 2013), as well as a full-length book, First Generation (Dos Madres Press, 2020). Ghosts and Whispers was a finalist for the Mass Book awards poetry category in 2011.
Anyone wishing to purchase a copy of his latest collection, First Generation, can do so by e-mailing him at krikorndh@verizon.net or, alternatively by telephone: 781-488-3933.
Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is the author of Romance with Small-Time Crooks (BlazeVOX [books], 2013), and Taking the Homeless Census (Saturnalia Books, 2020) which won the 2018 Saturnalia Editors Prize. A Boston native, her poems have been displayed in City Hall and featured by Mass Poetry aboard the red line subway. Her poems have recently appeared in Saranac Review, Poet Lore and Sugar House Review. She works as an advocate for the homeless in Cambridge, and teaches in the PoemWorks community. Her website is alexisivypoet.com
To buy her book:
Taking the Homeless Census | IndieBound.org
Barbara Thomas grew up in the Last Green Valley. She earned a Masters Degree from Boston University in Education and taught English and Reading in the public schools for 35 years.
Barbara is an active member of The New England Poetry Club, the Greek Institute, and Glenbrook, an environmental writing group in New Hampshire. She was a Joiner Center participant for ten years and received the Jeff Mayle Award. Her most recent book is The Last Green Valley, Cedar Grove Press, 2019. Other publications are a chapbook, Seduced Sighs of Trees, Cloudkeeper Press, 2007, and her poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Fiele-Festa, Lalitamba, and in several of the Bagel Bards Anthologies,among others. Her recent book, The Last Green Valley, can be purchased on Amazon ( $19.00) from Cherry Grove Collections: The Art of the Lyric; cherry-grove.com/barbara_thomas.html.
Sign-up for the open mic in the chat box before the reading begins; each participant will read ONE poem (no longer than a page). Limit 12 readers.