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
Ensuring the legacy of Theresa-India Young, New England fiber artist
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.
Sunday, June 21st, 3 pm the annual Student Contest Poetry Reading
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
Congratulations to Ann Taylor on the publication of her new book!
Sortings is a collection of poems focusing on the process of making distinctions, reflecting on life’s experiences, trying to discover and express what really mattered and continues to matter. The book explores a variety of subjects – childhood and growing up, the natural world, travel, artworks, and teaching. A major focus of this collection is the sorting through recent experiences with the poet’s mother as she traveled from the vital, funny, ironic, loving person she was, to becoming a 96-year-old elder struggling with the torments of dementia. The book has a kind of emotional coherence and a narrative arc, moving from memory to more recent subjects that inevitably link the now to the then.
Summer Poetry Festival!
Please join us for these virtual readings! Free and open to the public.
Easy registration:
July 12, 3 pm
Poet Wrestling in the Land of a Thousand Dances: Rosebud Ben-Oni
https://bit.ly/rosebud-ben-oni
July 26, 3 pm
Spirit Boxing: Afaa Michael Weaver
https://bit.ly/afaa-michael-weaver
August 9, 3 pm
Poetry in Translation: Maria Luisa Arroyo and Peter Covino
https://bit.ly/poetry-in-translation
Tune in to the Cambridge River/Stream Festival, June 6, 2020
https://www.cambridgema.gov/arts/Programs/riverfestival Schedule:2:00 p.m. Welcome from Cambridge Arts Executive Director Jason Weeks2:05 p.m. Jazz by Bob Toabe, Ken Field and Jonathan Suazo2:34 p.m. Dance Complex flamenco lesson3:37 p.m. Theater from Joshua … Read more
Congratulations to Tim Mayo!
Congratulations to Tim Mayo, NEPC poet, whose chapbook, Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper, won honorable mention in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards!
Hilary Sallick, NEPC vice president, discusses her recent publication, Asking the Form
Hilary Sallick, NEPC vice president, discusses her recent publication, Asking the Form: “A small regret is that I didn’t include the dates of publication along with the acknowledgments of those journals that published some of the poems in Asking the Form…”