Writer/Naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s (she/her) recent books are Toward Antarctica, Once Removed, and the anthologies Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, co-created with CMarie Fuhrman and Derek Sheffield and winner of the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book … Read moreLongfellow Summer Festival: Elizabeth Bradfield and Kevin Goodan
The Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New England and … Read moreSam Cornish Poetry Award: Gloria Mindock
(Please note: this event was originally scheduled for July 14, 2024.) Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the … Read moreLongfellow Summer Festival: Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris
(Note: in the event of rain, this event will be held in the Longfellow Carriage House AND livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@LONGNPS/streams.) Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gail Mazur grew up in Auburndale, … Read more2024 Golden Rose Award with Gail Mazur
Kick off the summer with a celebration of emerging poets! The Longfellow Student Poetry Contest is an annual competition of original poetry, with categories for high school, middle school, and … Read moreLongfellow Student Poetry Awards 2024
Chen Chen’s second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is out from BOA Editions this September. His first book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a … Read morePoetry Reading: Chen Chen and Natalie Shapero
The Sam Cornish Award is given in recognition of a poet of long-standing artistry, literary advocacy, and generous mentorship who has made a significant impact on the literary communities of New … Read moreSam Cornish Poetry Award: Elizabeth McKim and Askia Touré
Patricia Smith is the winner of the 2022 Golden Rose, one of America’s oldest literary prizes. Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art, winner of the 2018 … Read moreGolden Rose Poetry Award: Patricia Smith
Martha Collins has published ten volumes of poetry, most recently Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh, 2019), which won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published … Read morePoetry Reading: Martha Collins and Philip Nikolayev
Magdalena Gómez is the Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA and a Poetry Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry collection, Shameless Woman, (Red Sugarcane Press, NYC) is studied in Latinx curricula … Read morePoetry Reading: Magdalena Gómez and Enzo Silon Surin