Announcing the publication of Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed Merryn Rutledge Available for purchase at Amazon and Kelsay Books www.kelsaybooks.com Merryn Rutledge is a poet, book reviewer, and poetry craft … Read more
Due to the weather predicted for Sunday, April 30, the NEPC has cancelled its reading. We plan to reschedule this event.
Mary Gracie Meijer, from Boston College, is this year’s winner! Gracie Meijer is a fourth-year student at Boston College studying English and Medical Humanities. When she took her first creative … Read more
Our annual contests are now open to submissions. This year, we are going digital (for the most part)! We strongly encourage digital submissions to our individual poem contests. Poem Contest … Read more
Congratulations to NEPC member Owen Lewis, whose poem “On the hospital bed” received First Prize in the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Contest. NEPC member C.I. Marshall‘s first book, “The Locksmith … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Danielle Legros Georges Danielle Legros Georges is a creative and critical writer, translator, and academic who works in the fields of contemporary U.S. poetry, African-American and African-diasporic … Read more
Sarah Audsley recently published Landlock X with Texas Review Press, available now. This is the poet’s first book. Irene Mitchell recently published My Report from the Uwharries, Dos Madres Press, … Read more
Congratulations to Lynne Viti, our communications co-chair, who was selected as Westwood’s Poet Laureate.
Books & Chapbooks Cambridge poet Adam Scheffler‘s second poetry book, Heartworm was the winner of the 2021 Moon City Press Prize and is available from University of Arkansas Press. Jennifer … Read more
