The Golden Rose 2023
Prize Winners & Honorable Mentions 2023
Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Danielle Legros Georges “Bahia” by Carolyne Wright Honorable mentions: “I grow old… I grow old” by Vivian Shipley“The Octagonal Schoolhouse” by Joyce Wilson Amy … Read more
Poetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry … Read more
Member Publication News for April & May
KELLY DUMAR recently published “jinx and heavenly calling: I poached a portion of my mother’s love letters to my father, 1953-1954” with Lily Poetry Review Books, March 2023, and it’s … Read more
Merryn Rutledge; Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed
Announcing the publication of Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed Merryn Rutledge Available for purchase at Amazon and Kelsay Books www.kelsaybooks.com Merryn Rutledge is a poet, book reviewer, and poetry craft … Read more
Old Manse Reading Cancelled!
Due to the weather predicted for Sunday, April 30, the NEPC has cancelled its reading. We plan to reschedule this event.
Congrats to the 2023 Victor Howes Prize Winner
Mary Gracie Meijer, from Boston College, is this year’s winner! Gracie Meijer is a fourth-year student at Boston College studying English and Medical Humanities. When she took her first creative … Read more
The 2023 NEPC Book Prizes and Poem Contests
Our annual contests are now open to submissions. This year, we are going digital (for the most part)! We strongly encourage digital submissions to our individual poem contests. Poem Contest … Read more
Member Publication News for March 2023
Congratulations to NEPC member Owen Lewis, whose poem “On the hospital bed” received First Prize in the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Contest. NEPC member C.I. Marshall‘s first book, “The Locksmith … Read more
2023 Contest Judges Announced
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Danielle Legros Georges Danielle Legros Georges is a creative and critical writer, translator, and academic who works in the fields of contemporary U.S. poetry, African-American and African-diasporic … Read more