The Oldest Poetry Reading Series In The Country.
News |
Members' Readings, Awards, and Books (2010) |
MEMBERSHIP DUES: Please send to Pat Cosentino, 175 Poplar St Apt 2, Roslindale MA 02131-3660 |
|
W.S. MERWIN, New England Poetry Club's 1989 Golden Rose awardee, is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. The 1989 Gold Rose ceremony took place that year at Boston City Hall. A new text book for high schools, Literature & Composition from Bedford, St. Martins contains work by NEPC members MARY OLIVER, EAVAN BOLAND, ROBERT PENN WARREN, e.e. cummings, ANNE SEXTON, SYLVIA PLATH, FRANZ WRIGHT, SEAMUS HEANEY, DEREK WALCOTT, and a translation by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN. CATHERINE STAPLES has a poem in the summer 2010 issue of Blackbird and another in Valpariso Poetry Review. DANIEL TOBIN and AFAA WEAVER read on Thursday August 12th at 6.30 at the Liberty Hotel Poetic Justic Series 215 Charles Street Boston. Free. LOLITA PAIEWONSKY served as a judge in the 2010 Boston-wide competition of student poetry, prose, and visual arts at the Harvard Medical School/Office of Diversity and Community Partnership this past April. Members ALFRED NICOL and RHINA ESPAILLAT were joined by classical guitarist John Tavano and soprano Ann Tucker on July 16 at the Actor's Studio in the Tannery, Newburyport. STEVE LAUTERMILCH's chapbook, Rim, was chosen by Sam Rasnake as winner of the 2010 Sow's Ear Poetry Review chapbook contest. He has poems forthcoming in Prairie Schooner. GLORIA MINDOCK's new book, La Portile Raiului, is out from Ars Longa Press in Romania. On July 23rd at 7pm The Brattleboro Vt. Book Cellar will sponsor a book launch party at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 10 Vernon St, for F.D. REEVE's The Puzzle Master, published by New York Quarterly Books and LAURA STEVESON's Return in Kind, published Separate Star. X.J. KENNEDY and DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN appeared at the Liberty Hotel, on July 8, for the Grolier Poetry Book Shop and Tapestry of Voices Series. See announcement. MARK PAWLAK's new chapbook collection, "Jefferson"s New Image Salon," is coming from Cervena Barva Press: press release, and as editor of the fourth volume in Hanging Loose Press' anthology series of best poetry and prose by highschool writers: press release. HELENE PILIBOSIAN has just published My Literary Life, A Memoir with Ohan Press of Watertown, MA. MOLLY MATTFIELD BENNET read from her first book, Name The Glory, on June 6th at the United First Church in Quincy. Finishing Line Press will be releasing KRIKOR DER HOHANNESIAN's chapbook, Ghosts and Whisphers later this year. MOIRA LINEHAN's poem, "Last Wishes," won America's 2010 Foley Poetry Award. See web site. Members FRANZ WRIGHT and HENRI COLE read from their new books on June 10th at the Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles Street, Boston. KATHLEEN SPIVAK's chapbook, A History of Yearning, will be out this month. It was the winner of this year's International Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook Prize. ELLEN JANE POWERS read on June 19th in the Poetry Series at the Brockton Public Library. DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN's frequently re-printed poem about losing a father, "Shifting the Sun," has just appeared in another book, What Poetry Brings To Business. FRED MARCHANT and AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER read on Sunday May 23rd at the Loring Greenough House to benefit "Bumi Sehat birth Clinic in Haiti". Increase, a chapbook of poems by SUSAN EDWARDS RICHMOND inspired by the Shaker community in Massachusetts, is available from Foothills Publishing. PATRICIA FARGNOLI's book, Then, Something (Tupelo Press, 2009), has been awarded the 2010 Eric Hoffer's Davinci's Eye Award for cover design, and the book, itself, has won an Honorable Mention for the Hoffer Poetry Book Award. MARGE PIERCY gave several poetry readings during April, and her poems have appeared recently in The SowÕs Ear, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Third Wednesday, Blue Collar Review, GreenSpirit, Margie, Blue Fifth, On the Issues, and The Arava Review. She's also had works in two anthologies, Final Acts, Death, Dying and the Choices We Make, and Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems. Interviews with her Appear on Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost, and in Smoking Poet. MILDRED M. JEFFREY's second book of poems, Dear Mr. Wordsworth, has been published by Neponset River Press. DAVID SLAVITT's translation of Orlando Furioso is out from Harvard; his translation of The Latin Elegies of Giovanni Boccaccio is out from Johns Hopkins; and a paperbook version of his translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosphy is now available. His 90th book, a translation of Dante's Vita Nouva, is due out this August. HELEN MARIE CASEY has a poem in the Black Lawrence Press blog. FRANZ WRIGHT read in Arizona (Tempe and Tucson). BEN MAZER read on Sunday, April 25, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge as part of Celebrating 5 Books by 2 Authors in 1 Month, hosted by Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Lame Duck Books, and Back Pages Books. DOLORES STEWART and OTTONE RICCIO, Celebrating 40 Years of Sharing Poetry, read on Wednesday, May 12 at 7pm in the Merry Room, Lower Level, Duxbury Free Library,77 Alden Street,Duxbury. DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN and MEG KEARNEY will read on May 19th at 7.30pm at the Peterbrough New Hampshire Library. BILL COYLE has an article on Philip Larkin's adjectives in Contemporary Poetry Review. RAE ARMANTROUT's Versed has won the 2010 Pulitzer prize for poetry. SAM CORNISH, FRED MARCHANT, and KATHLEEN SPIVAK were introduced by DOUG HOLDER at a reading on April 13 at the Newton Free Library. BEN MAZER has a new poetry collection: Poems. JASON TANDON had two poems featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. A recording of RICHARD HOFFMAN and WENDY MNOOKIN reading for New England Poetry Club's Shelia Motton Book Award. DAWN POTTER's poetry-themed memoir, Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009), has been awarded the 2010 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction as well as an Emerging Writer's Fellowship from the Bethesda-based Writers' Center. CavanKerry Press is publishing her second poetry collection, How the Crimes Happened, in April; and new work also appears in the Threepenny Review and the University of Liverpool's the Reader. Many NEPC members read at the tenth annual Poetry Month Marathon on Saturday April 10, and Sunday April 11th at the Boston Public Library Copley Square Boston. Among the members: are Sam Cornish, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Richard Wollman, Jennifer Barber, Afaa M. Weaver, Barbara Helfgott-Hyett, Ellen Steinbaum, Charles Coe, Elizabeth McKim, Susan Donnelly, CD Collins, Marc Goldfinger, Gloria Mindock, Diana Saenz, Stuart Peterfreund, Valerie Lawson, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Mark Pawlak, Lainie Senechal, Harris Gardner, Joanna Nealon, Susan Donnelly, Irene Koronas, Doug Holder. See the Press Release an Schedule for more information. SUSAN EDWARDS RICHMOND's chapbook, Increase, is out from FootHills Publishing. LOLITA PAIEWONSKY took part in the Maps One Journal feature reading at Out of the Blue Gallery/Stone Soup Series and was among those featured in "A Century of Black Poets: 1910--2010" at the Brookline Public Library, both events in celebration of Black History Month. For Women's History Month (in March), she was the featured poet at the Bailis Assisted Living Residence in Boston. NEPC member and Boston Poet Laureate SAM CORNISH has a new book, King of the Jungle. He will start off the Poetry month marathon of readings organized by HARRIS GARDNER on April 10th at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square. PATRICIA FARGONLI's latest book, Then, Something, Tupelo Press, 2009 has been named a finalist for the Foreward Book of the Year Award in Poetry. LEN KRISAK's translation of Virgil's Eclogues is now out from the University of Pennsylvania Press. HELEN MARIE CASEY's review of Kim Triedman's work, "Baudelairean Darkness", is in the Spring 2010 The South Carolina Review. JAMES FRANCIS CAHILLANE has poems in In Twelve Hands and Silkworm and received an honorable mention in Word Worth World Magazine for his essay, "Take Me to English Pubs". CYNTHIA VEACH has a poem in The Sow's Ear. PAT COSENTINO's articles on the poetry of Ghazi al-Gosaibi and another on the lifetime achievement of Salma Jayysi in disseminating Arabic Literature in English have been translated into Arabic for Al-Jazeirah newspaper. MARY BONINA will read at The Bay State Underground on Friday, March 19th at 7:30 at the Basement of 236 Bay State Road, Boston. On March 28th CHRISTINE CASSON and ELIZABETH QUINLAN will participate in the Calliope Series at the West Falmouth Library, 2-4pm. MEG KEARNEY will be awarded the 2010 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Poetry for her book, Home By Now (Four Way Books), on Sunday, March 28th, 3:00 p.m. at the JFK Presidential Library. HENRI COLE read from his new book, PIERCE THE SKIN: Selected Poems, on March 14 at the Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge for Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Denise Berman, Dzvinia Orlovsky, Catherine Sasanov, and Michaeo Zack read March 7 at Forsythe Chapel in Jamaica Plain. On March 7, Tom Daley and Martha Rhodes read in tribute to poet Sarah Getty at the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord. On March 8, AGNI Magazine presented a free reading by contributors Ken Kalfus, and Terese Svoboda, and a tribute to artist Michael Mazur with Catherine Murphy, and John Yau, moderated by Tom Sleigh. Hosted by Robert Polito, director, The New School Writing Program. ALFRED NICOL and DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN read for the Powow Poets on March 13 at Jabberwocky Bookstore in Newburyport. MEG KEARNEY read on March 15 at Blacksmith. Illustrated poems by Golden Rose poet CHARLES SIMIC are on display during April at the Boston Athenaeum on Beacon Hill. The Winter Issue 2010 of The MacGuffin contains HELEN MARIE CASEY's prize-winning poem, "Sprung Rhythm," and two other poems by her. RICHARD HOFFMAN is the new director of PEN-New England. Several NEPC Members are in the latest issue of Off the Coast, including ELLEN JANE POWERS and BARBARA KASSELMAN. RHINA ESPAILLAT will be one of the poets participating in the "Mezzo Cammin Timeline Project" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington DC, in March, and will be the Keynote Speaker at the West Chester Poetry Conference this June. DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN has a poem in Salamander Cove. Members reading love poems at the February 1 meeting, included DANIEL THOMAS MORAN, JADENE FELINA STEVENS, LARI SMITH, CAROL WESTON, LOLITA PAIEWONSKY, PHILIP BURNHAM, KRIKOR DER HOHANNESIAN, BARBARA KASSELMAN, ELLIN SOROT, ELLEN JANE POWERS, and DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN. The January 14 Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac has two poems by WILLIAM JAY SMITH. RHINA P. ESPAILLAT read in the Key West Literary Seminar panels in January. She will also be part of the Mezzo Cammin Timeline Project at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in March, and on June 9th will be keynote speaker at the West Chester Poetry PA. Conference. JOYCE WILSON's new book, The Etymology of Spruce, has been accepted by Rock Village Publishing (Middleborough, Mass) and will be published early in 2010. Joyce's chapbook, The Spring House, a finalist in the 2009 Open Chapbook Competition of Finishing Line Press, will also appear this year. LEWIS TURCO won the 2009 New England Book Festival's "Wild Card" category for his volume Satan’s Scourge, also reviewed in The Main Sunday Telegram, and delivered a lecture on it. DZVINIA ORLOWSKY and MEG KEARNEY read in January in the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill. ELLEN STEINBAUM read in January at the Boston Athenaeum, 10 Beacon St., Boston. KRIKOR DER HOHANNESIAN has poems in Avocet, Hurricane Review, Off the Coast, Poem and Peregrine. HELEN MARIE CASEY's poem "There Is No Loneliness" was Honorable Mention in the 2010 Yellowwood Poetry Contest sponsored by The Yalobusha Review. DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN has poems in the new issues of Lyric and Visions International. Unlocking the Poem, a compendium of poetry "assignments" that teach and provide writing stimuli to poets at all levels, has been published by OTTONE M. RICCIO and Ellen Beth Siegel. The 450 assignments are illustrated by poems written by 101 of Mr. Riccio’s students, including NEPC members ELLEN STEINBAUM, PATRICIA FARGNOLI, ELLEN JANE POWERS, BEATRIZ ALBA DEL RIO, and DOLORES STEWART, and one by OTTONE M. RICCIO himself. For more information about the book, including a downloadable sample, visit the web site. |
|
| In Memoriam (2010) |
|
Leslie Scalapino Andrei Voznesensky Louis Auchincloss Lucille Clifton Mary Daly Dick Francis Robert Parker J.D.Salinger Erich Segal Theodore Sizer Howard Zinn Sarah Getty Donald Carne-Ross Lucille Clifton Jaromir Horec Dennis Brutus |
For more information, contact us at info@nepoetryclub.org. |