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
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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
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 (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
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
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have … Read more
Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Pear These days, the elders, even peers my own age, are leaving, one after another. You were peeling a pear when I … Read more
E. E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by M.P. Carver Judith Hoyer is a Wayland, Massachusetts resident whose full-length poetry collection, Imagine That, was published by FutureCycle Press in February … Read more