The Oldest Poetry Reading Series In The Country.
 
 

 
 

2006 Events

New England Poetry Club Readings 2006

Tuesday, March 14
Pulitzer prize winner poet JORIE GRAHAM

Cambridge Public Library
45 Pearl St. Central Square
Cambridge, MA


Monday, April 17th

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
NEPC Golden Rose Award
Yenching Auditorium
2 Divinity Ave. Cambridge

Co-sponsored with the Signet Society

 

Thursday, June 1st
Pulitzer Prize winner FRANZ WRIGHT
reading from his new GOD'S SILENCE

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Sunday, July 9
Salute to Amy Lowell, founder of New England Poetry Club
with a reading by HONOR MOORE New York poet and biographer

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Sunday July 23rd
JOHN BARR, director of the Poetry Foundation
&
CHRISTIAN WIMAN, editor of Poetry Magazine
discuss poetry trends and read from their own work

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Sunday August 6th
Salute to Montale with HARRY THOMAS
also DANIEL BOSCH & DAVID FERRY

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Thursday August 10th
Folk Music

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Sunday August 20th

Curbstone Poets:

Martha Collins, Kevin Bowen, Martin Espada, Dannielle George, Tino Villanueva

Introduced by Alexander Taylor

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Sunday September 24th

WINNERS of children's, high school, college poetry contests
and RHINA ESPAILLAT, winner of the May Sarton Award

The Longfellow Garden Summer Series
105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Monday October 2nd

Editors of FULCRUM Magazine:
KATIA KAPOVICH, PHILIP NIKOLAYEV

Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

 

Monday November 6th

Poets David Berman, Bill Coyle, Robert Crawford, Rhina Espaillat,
A.M. Juster, Len Krisak, Deborah Warren, and Richard Wollman
introduced by ALFRED NICOL

Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

 

Tuesday November 14th

FRED MARCHANT, winner of the Washington Prize,
author of several poetry collections, director
of Creative Writing and the Poetry Center at Suffolk University
DAN TOBIN, award winning poet af three collections,
director of Creative Writing and Publishing at Emerson College
DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, winner of many awards for poetry and
translations, twice a Fulbright scholar
Plus music by MARTIN HAROUTUNIAN, director of Arev Folk Music ensemble

Central Square Cambridge Public Library

 

Monday December 4th

PRIZE POETS, JOAN HOULIHAN, and NEPC winners

Yenching Library, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge

 

Tuesday December 12th

PINE MANOR poets
and Reading by more NEPC prize winners

Central Square Cambridge Public Library

 

Readings are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact us at info@nepoetryclub.org or call 617-491-1955