We are pleased to announce a new in-person member reading opportunity for members who havepublished their first book or first chapbook! Please read on for the details. As you may … Read moreReading Opportunities for NEPC Members with First Books/First Chapbooks
Congratulations to our members for the publications of the following collections and poems! Collections Member Jennifer R. Edwards‘ debut poetry collection is Unsymmetrical Body (Finishing Line Press, July 2022). She’s … Read moreMember Publication News for August 2022
Every year, the New England Poetry Club (NEPC) holds two contests for books of poems published in the last two years. The Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize competition – for full length … Read moreJudging the NEPC Contests
Here are the prize winners, honorable mentions, and finalists from our 2022 contest.
Masquerade is a jazz-inflected, lyric-narrative sequence of poems, a “memoir in poetry” set principally in pre-Katrina New Orleans and in Seattle, involving an interracial couple who are artists and writers. Moved … Read moreReviews for Masquerade by Carolyne Wright
Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow co-translated by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry!
Congratulations to member Jennifer Freed for winning the 2022 Frank O’Hara Prize.
Chapbooks Gail Hanlon‘s chapbook, Mirabilia was published by Dancing Girl Press in June. She has a book forthcoming from Curbstone Press. Mark Wacome Stevick’s chapbook, Local Habitations, won the 2021 … Read moreMember Publication News for June
