The Oldest Poetry Reading Series In The Country.
 
 

 
 

Events

New England Poetry Club Readings
Calendar 2011

All readings are free and open to the public.

Reading Series

Monday, February 7th
7pm
Members reading love poems

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Monday, March 7th
MYRA SKLAREW, DANIEL TOBIN, and ANDREW SOFER
bios

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Monday, April 4th
7pm
CHRISTINA DAVIS,
Curator of Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room
and ANNA MARIA HONG,
a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
bios

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Tuesday, April 19th
7pm
POETRY ON BROADWAY SERIES
Editing and Publishing the Anthology:
ROLAND PEASE and ANDRE GERARD
Selecting favorites for assembling an anthology

Co-sponsored with the Cambridge Public Library

Cambridge Public Library, Main Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge

 

Monday, May 2nd
Members reading from new books
PHILIP BURNHAM, NAOMI CHASE,
KRIKOR DER HOHANNESIAN, and RICHARD FEIN
bios

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Sunday, May 15th
POETRY ON BROADWAY SERIES
DZVINIA ORLOWSKY and PATRICIA FARGNOLI read
from their prize-winning books:
Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones, and
Then, Something, respectively.

Co-sponsored with the Cambridge Public Library

Cambridge Public Library, Main Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge

 

Sunday, June 5th
CHILDREN's PRIZE WINNERS

Longfellow House, East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, June 26th
GOLDEN ROSE READING
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Longfellow House, East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, July 24th
Poets Who Edit
With JOHN BARR (Poetry Magazine,
author of Hundred Fathom Curve,
and Grace)
And STANLEY MOSS (editor of Sheep Meadow Press,
and author of Rejoicing,
and God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike)

Longfellow House, East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, August 7th
WESLEY MCNAIR, Lovers of the Lost
FRANZ WRIGHT Walking to Martha's Vineyard
read from forthcoing works

Longfellow House, East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Sunday, August 14th
Where Do Poems Come From?
On August 14th they will come from
DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN (Dancing at the Monastery),
X.J. KENNEDY (In A Prominent Bar in Secaucus, New and Selected Poems),
and F.D. REEVE (The Puzzle Master)

Longfellow House, East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge

 

Tuesday, October 4th
POETRY ON BROADWAY SERIES
ANNE STEVENSON and ROSANNA WARREN

Co-sponsored with the Cambridge Public Library

Cambridge Public Library, Main Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge

 

Sunday, October 30th
45th Anniversary Reading/Celebration for Hanging Loose Press
Featuring HL Editors: ROBERT HERSHON, DICK LOURIE,
MARK PAWLAK, and DONNA BROOK, and also
HL authors: WILLIAM CORBETT, PABLO MEDINA,
GEMMA COOPER-NOVACK, and HA JIN

Cambridge Public Library, Main Library
449 Broadway, Cambridge

 

Monday, November 7th
NEPC Prize Winners reading from their award winning poems:
KATHERINE AGUERRO, FRANK BLESSINGTON, MARY BUCHINGER,
SUSAN EISENBERG, DOLORES HAYDEN, SANDRA KOHLER,
and LEN KRISAK

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Monday, December 5th
DANIEL TOBIN will read from Belated Heaven,
this year's Mass Book Award winner

Harvard-Yenching Common Room 136
2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge (off Kirkland, near Memorial Hall)

 

Previous Years' Readings

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Readings are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact us at info@nepoetryclub.org or call 617-744-6034