NEPC / Voices of Poetry – At the Library (a virtual event) Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm Cambridge Public Library Zoom code: 968 5388 4806 cambridgema.zoom.us/j/96853884806 FREE & open … Read more
Please join us this Sunday, July 26, 3 pm, for a poetry reading by Afaa Michael Weaver.
This reading is hosted by the New England Poetry Club and the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters (LHWH) National Historic Site, sponsored by the Friends of LHWH.
Registration is free and easy! https://bit.ly/afaa-michael-weaver
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90160/the-little-rock-9
Presented by the City of Somerville and the Somerville Arts Council as part of ArtBeat 2020: CHANCE, July 10th-18th.Somerville is a city of excitement and diversity in many areas, notleast … Read more
Congratulations to Owen Lewis who has a new book of (mostly) poetry out from Dos Madres Press, entitled: Field Light.
Advance praise: “This is a book vast in social thought, in narrative, and, most of all, in exceptional poetry.”–Kevin Prufer”
A truly epic sweep of poems and prose of immediacy and history in the Berkshires.”–David Giannini
Open air, safe-distanced, book launch/reading in Daniel Chester French’s Chesterwood Studio Garden, Stockbridge, Mass., July 25th, 4:30 pm. To register to attend the reading: www.Chesterwood.org
Ed Meek has had poems recently in Into the Void, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Galway Review, Ekphrasis, High Shelf Press, The Blue Mountain Review, What Rough Beast, Dash, North of Oxford, Journal of Arts and Letters, Gold Walkman Review, The Athena Review, and the Provincetown Poem and a Photo Exhibit.
He has poems coming out in Constellations, Muddy River Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow Review, Aurorean, First Literary Review East, Ibbetson, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, The Blue Mountain Review, War, Literature and the Arts, Fragmented Voices Anthology, The North Sea Poetry Anthology. You can find his book reviews in The Arts Fuse and articles in Boomer Café and CounterPunch. His new book, High Tide, can be ordered at Aubadepublishing.com.
Gray Jacobik will read from her book, Eleanor, poems written in Eleanor Roosevelt’s voice. Please register in advance: https://bit.ly/gray-jacobik
Learn more about Gray Jacobik on her website: http://www.grayjacobik.com
In Eleanor, Jacobik presents fifty eight poems in Roosevelt’s voice told against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century. Included are poems about Franklin, her children, her mother-in-law, and her most passionate and intimate friendships; others focus on ER’s evolving relationship to servants and issues of class and human rights, as well her service to the world community. Jacobik’s monologues constitute a sustained imaginative work that embodies ER’s emotional experience, moral conflicts, fears, losses, desires, and aspirations.
Many thanks to MassPoetry for their interest in the New England Poetry Club!
Perhaps you’ll find answers to questions you didn’t know you had about the Club!
http://www.masspoetry.org/interview-with-new-england-poetry-club
Jackie McRath, NEPC poet, is raising money to administer the 2021 Invitational Theresa-India Young Show at the Piano Gallery and to complete a documentary of her life and work (more information below).
Please consider making a donation if you’re able, and please share the fundraiser (and information about Theresa) with others who might be interested.
Theresa-India Young (1950-2008), fiber artist, teacher, and griot devoted her professional life to studying world cultures, nature and the practices of European tapestry, Ikat, Kente, Backstrap, and Navaho weaving. She taught these diverse cultural and artistic skills at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for twenty years. Prior to her appointment at the MFA, she taught costume/textile design at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and Roxbury Community College.
Join us this Sunday, June 21st, 3 pm, for the Student Contest Poetry Reading, with winners from local schools, grades 3-12, and this year’s Victor Howes Prize in Poetry winner, Jessica Chretien, recent graduate of Plymouth State University; you can find her @infuturereverse on Twitter, and on Instagram @absolutelynthng
Please register in advance using this link: https://bit.ly/studentpoetry2020
