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HENRI COLE will read from his new book, PIERCE THE SKIN: Selected Poems, on Sunday, March 14 at 3pm at the Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge for Grolier Poetry Book Shop. 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. Denise Berman, Dzvinia Orlovsky, Catherine Sasanov, and Michaeo Zack read Sunday March 7 at 2 pm at Forsythe Chapel in Jamaica Plain. On March 7, Tom Daley and Martha Rhodes will read in tribute to poet Sarah Getty, from 3 to 5pm, at the Concord Poetry Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord. On March 8, AGNI Magazine presents 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 March 13 at 3pm, Jabberwocky Bookstore, 50 water Street, Newburyport. MEG KEARNEY will read on March 15 at 8pm at Blacksmith. On March 28, CHRISTINE CASSON and ELIZABETH QUINLAN will participate in the Calliope Series at the West Falmouth Library, 2-4pm. 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. |
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| In Memoriam (2010) |
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Sarah Getty Donald Carne-Ross Lucille Clifton Jaromir Horec Dennis Brutus |
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