| David McCann has been teaching, writing, translating, and otherwise engaging Korea sijo poetry. He and his wife attended the dedication ceremony last year for the new Sijo Stone Garden in Boryeong Korea. He was invited to send a poem, which has been translated into Korean and turned into yet one more stone in the garden. |
https://www.ruberybookaward.com/2020-winners.html
This is a virtual event, sponsored by the NEPC and the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters.
Registration is free and easy: https://bit.ly/poetry-in-translation
Dzvinia Orlowsky’s poem, “Lullaby,” appears in the current issue of JAMA, (Vol 324, No. 4, pg. 401) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768810 Copyright 2020 American Medical Association, All rights reserved.
Dzvinia Orlowsky’s co-translated manuscript titled ECCENTRIC DAYS OF HOPE AND SORROW from the Ukrainian of Natalka Bilotserkivits’s poems, has been accepted for publication by Lost Horse Press and is forthcoming in fall of 2021. Bilotserkivits’s poems, known for lyricism and the quiet power of despair, became hallmarks of Ukraine’s literary life of the 1980s. www.losthorsepress.org
Congratulations to Mark Creaven, NEPC poet! (also note the call for submissions related to Vermont) Prestigious Awards Include First-Ever Prize for Poetry and Collaboration Between GMP and Vermont Magazine to … Read more
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
