Laura Budofsky Wisniewski, selections from “Sanctuary, Vermont”
Winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board
Reading Opportunities for NEPC Members with First Books/First Chapbooks
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 more
Member Publication News for August 2022
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 more
Judging the NEPC Contests
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 more
Congratulations to our 2022 Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions
Here are the prize winners, honorable mentions, and finalists from our 2022 contest.
Reviews for Masquerade by Carolyne Wright
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 more
Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow Shortlisted for Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry
Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow co-translated by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry!
The 2022 Frank O’Hara Prize Winner
Congratulations to member Jennifer Freed for winning the 2022 Frank O’Hara Prize.