2024 Contest Judges Announced
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Enzo Silon Surin Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured on topics such … Read more
Poems for Turkish Diaspora & Dislocation
Adnan Adam Onart will present his poetry of Turkish and Muslim people living in diaspora and dislocation. He will also discusses the challenges of writing poetry in a language other than one’s mother tongue. Mary Buchinger and Denise Provost of the New England Poetry Club will moderate the discussion with Adnan
New England Poetry Club Prize-Winners’ Reading, 2023
Watch the YouTube video of the October 8, 2023 Anthology reading
Monica Raymond, “Jersusalem”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Doug Holder and Denise Provost Monica Raymond writes poems, plays, and sometimes prose from an old house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her magical realist … Read more
Member Publication News for September
NEPC Member Thomas DeFreitas recently published SWIFT RIVER BALLAD with Kelsay Books, available now. This is the poet’s third collection. NEPC Member Jason O’Toole has been chosen as the 6th … Read more
Lee Ann Roripaugh, #stringofbeads
Lee Ann Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, mostly recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which was named a “Best … Read more
Halyna Kruk, “In a Small Provincial Chinese Town,” translated from the Ukranian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Photograph (L to R): Ali Kinsella, Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Halyna Kruk is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, educator, and literary critic. … Read more