New Poetry & Open Mic, March 14, 3 pm, with Linda Haviland Conte, Timothy Gager, Eleanor Kedney

Join us for a reading of poetry by NEPC members with new books! 

Until further notice, all events will be online; this series is free and open to the public.

Members will receive the zoom link information in a newsletter; please email info@nepoetryclub.org if you are not a member.

Bios for New Poetry Reading, March 14, 2021

Linda Haviland Conte is the author of Seldom Purely (Ibbetson Street Press, 2020) and Slow As A Poem (Ibbetson Street Press, 2002). Her work also appears in several anthologies and magazines.  She was a panelist at the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Poetry Festivals (2017).  Linda is Treasurer and Membership Coordinator for The New England Poetry Club. Seldom Purely is available at Lulu, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. 

People can message her through my website (lindaconte.net) to order my chapbook Slow As A Poem.

Timothy Gager is the author of sixteen books of fiction and poetry. His latest, an Amazon #1 Best Seller, Poems of 2020,is his ninth of poetry. Timothy hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2001 to 2018, and as a virtual series starting in 2020. Timothy was the co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival. He has had over 600 works of fiction and poetry published, of which seventeen have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work also has been nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology, and has been read on National Public Radio.

Purchase link:

2020 Poems by Timothy Gager | BigTablePublishing

Eleanor Kedney is the author of the full-length collection Between the Earth and Sky (C&R Press, 2020) and the chapbook The Offering (Liquid Light Press, 2016). Between the Earth and Sky is a 2020 Best Book Award Finalist in Poetry (American Book Fest). Her work has appeared in Miramar Poetry Journal, New Ohio ReviewUnder a Warm Green LindenSliver of Stone, and other journals, and anthologies. Her poem “Bubbles Blown through a Wand” won the 2019 riverSedge Poetry Prize (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). “A Park Bench in Prague” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fjords Review. Kedney is the founder of the Tucson branch of the New York-based Writers Studio, and served as the director for ten years. She lives in Stonington, Connecticut and Tucson, Arizona. Learn more at eleanorkedney.com.

To purchase Between the Earth and Sky please visit C&R Press: C&R Press or email Eleanor Kedney at eleanorkedney@yahoo.com for a signed copy.