The Oldest Poetry Reading Series In The Country.
 
 

 
 

Events

New England Poetry Club Readings
Calendar 2008

Monday, February 4th
Contemporary Russian poet, ALEXANDER SKIDAN

Co-sponsored with Grolier's Books and
St. Petersburg Review

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Tuesday, February 12th
Authors of new chapbooks: KEVIN GALLAGHER and SUSAN RICHMOND
Followed by an open reading of love poems.

Cambridge Public Library, Central Square
Pearl St., Cambridge (Library is next to public garage)

 

Monday, March 3rd
PHILIP BURNHAM, KATHLEEN AGUERRO, and IRENE KORONAS
introduced by GLORIA MINDOCK

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Monday, April 7th
Poets with new books: CHRISTINE CASSON reads from
"After the First World" (Star Cloud Press), JENNIFER ROSE reads
from "Hometown for an Hour" (Ohio University Press), and
DEBORAH WARREN reads from "Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit"
(University of Evansville Press).

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Tuesday, April 22nd
SAM CORNISH, Poet Laureate of Boston, and PETER PAYAK,
poet populist of Cambridge, introduced by CHARLES COE

Cambridge Public Library
Central Square

 

Monday, May 5th
Members with new chapbooks: MARY BUCHINGER,
FREDDY FRANKEL, and LO GALLUCHIO

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Sunday, June 1st
Anti-violence Poetry Day, with MICHAEL CASEY ("The Bopper"),
MARTHA COLLINS ("Blue Front"),
and FRED MARCHANT ("Another World Instead")

Carriage House
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, June 29th
CAROLYN FORCHÉ
Golden Rose reading

East Lawn
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, July 13th
Winners of the 2007 Sheila Motton Book Award:
RAFAEL CAMPO reads from The Enemy and
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN reads from All That Lies Between Us

East Lawn
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, July 27th
Celebration of ELIZABETH BISHOP, featuring readers:
FRANK BIDART, author of Watching the Spring Festival,
DAVID FERRY, poet and translator of The Georgics of Virgil,
DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, author of The Second Question,
MEGAN MARSHALL, author of The Peabody Sisters,
GAIL MAZUR, author of Zeppo's First Wife, and
LLOYD SCHWARTZ, editor of the Bishop book and author of Cairo Traffic.

East Lawn
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, August 10th
Poets Who Edit
DAVID BARBER, poetry editor of The Atlantic,
MAJOR JACKSON poetry editor of The Harvard Review
JOHN SKOYLES, poetry editor of Ploughshares

East Lawn
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, September 14th
Student Poetry Prize winners and CHARLES COE,
SAM CORNISH, Boston poet laureate
PETER PAYACK, Cambridge poet populist

Front Lawn
Longfellow House on Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Monday, October 6th
Readings by Literary Couples: MARY BONINA, author of Living Proof,
will read with MARK PAWLAK, poet and editor at Hanging Loose Press.

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Tuesday, October 21st
A celebration of AGNI Magazine, with readings by three AGNI poets:
TODD HEARON, EMILY SCUDDER, and DZVINIA ORLOWSKY.

Cambridge Public Library
45 Pearl Street, Cambridge (adjacent to the public parking garage)

 

Monday, November 3rd
Singer, songwriter JOHN PERRAULT, and
HELEN MARIE CASEY, author of Inconsiderate Madness,
and CATHLEEN CALBERT, author of Sleeping with a Famous Poet.

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Tuesday, November 18th
GEORGE KALOGERIS and
Other New England Poetry Club Prize winners:
KATHLEEN AGUERO,BEN BERMAN, PATRICIA BRODIE,
MICHAEL CANTOR, RICHARD FEIN, MARY ELLEN GEER,
PATRICIA GIRAGOSIAN, and MARILYN JURICH.

Cambridge Public Library
45 Pearl Street, Cambridge (adjacent to the public parking garage)

 

Monday, December 1st
PIOTR GWIAZDA, author of Gagarin Street and
writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington,
and MOIRA LINEHAN author of If No Moon

Yenching Library
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Readings are free and open to the public.
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