Please join us for this virtual event! Email info@nepoetryclub.org for the Zoom link!
News from NEPC Member, David McCann!
| 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. |
Congratulations to NEPC member, William Orem, whose collection, Our Purpose In Speaking, won the International Rubery Book Award in poetry and was named Book of the Year!
https://www.ruberybookaward.com/2020-winners.html
Join us Sunday, August 9th, 3 pm, for Poetry in Translation
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
Congratulations to Dzvinia Orlowsky, NEPC prize-winning poet and contest judge!
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 (virtually) Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 2:30 pm
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
Virtual Reading: Afaa Michael Weaver, Sunday, July 26, 3 pm
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