Join us on September 12, 1 – 4 pm for our first Fall Poetry Fest!
Register in advance for this meeting:
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Register in advance here: https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm
This year’s annual Golden Rose Award will be presented to Rhina P. Espaillat. Espaillat has published twelve full-length books, four chapbooks and a monograph on translation.
Espaillat is noted for her English translations of Saint John of the Cross, as well as her book of Spanish translations of Robert Frost, Algo hay que no es amigo de los muros/Something There Is that Doesn’t Love a Wall, and her bilingual collection of Richard Wilbur translations, Oscura fruta/Dark Berries.Her work, which comprises poetry, essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish, and translations from and into both languages, appears in numerous journals, anthologies and websites. She has received many national and international awards.
A founding member of the Melopoeia trio, Espaillat performs with poet Alfred Nicol and guitarist John Tavano, as well as with the quintet known as The Diminished Prophets.
More information about his book can be found here: https://huergayfierro.com/hasta-que-no-haya-luna/
Congratulations to the poets whose poems were selected and many thanks to the judges who so generously volunteered their time and attention as they made their selections!
Join us on September 26, 3pm, for a reading of the prize-winning poems!
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 by mutual fascination, shared ideals and aspirations, and the passion they discover in each other, the two are challenged to find a place together in the cultures of both races and families, amidst personal and political dislocations as well as questions of trust—all against the backdrop of America’s racism and painful social history. The twentieth century’s global problem, the color line, as W. E. B. du Bois named it, is enacted here in microcosm between these lovers and fellow artists, who must face their own fears and unresolved conflicts in each other. Similar stories have been told from the male protagonist’s point of view; Masquerade is unique in foregrounding the female perspective. Here are online links for a few of the poems that will be in the book:
Bass River Press (an imprint of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod) and Calliope Poetry have teamed up to publish a new poetry collection that explores the beauty, history, and … Read more
Porsha Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the author of i shimmer sometimes, too forthcoming with Button Poetry. She is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston.
Alondra Bobadilla‘s poetry demonstrates how creative expression can be a powerful tool for youth to examine feelings around issues, find their voice, and speak up about the changes they want to see for their future. She was named Boston’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate in January 2020.
Please join us via Zoom for a poetry reading with Sam Cha, Rage Hezekiah, Indigo Moor, and Donald Vincent hosted by the Voices of Poetry, NEPC, and the Cambridge Public Library.
