Poetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry … Read morePoetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2023 AT 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry … Read morePoetry at the Old Manse – August 2023
KELLY DUMAR recently published “jinx and heavenly calling: I poached a portion of my mother’s love letters to my father, 1953-1954” with Lily Poetry Review Books, March 2023, and it’s … Read moreMember Publication News for April & May
Announcing the publication of Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed Merryn Rutledge Available for purchase at Amazon and Kelsay Books www.kelsaybooks.com Merryn Rutledge is a poet, book reviewer, and poetry craft … Read moreMerryn Rutledge; Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed
Due to the weather predicted for Sunday, April 30, the NEPC has cancelled its reading. We plan to reschedule this event.
Mary Gracie Meijer, from Boston College, is this year’s winner! Gracie Meijer is a fourth-year student at Boston College studying English and Medical Humanities. When she took her first creative … Read moreCongrats to the 2023 Victor Howes Prize Winner
Our annual contests are now open to submissions. This year, we are going digital (for the most part)! We strongly encourage digital submissions to our individual poem contests. Poem Contest … Read moreThe 2023 NEPC Book Prizes and Poem Contests
Congratulations to NEPC member Owen Lewis, whose poem “On the hospital bed” received First Prize in the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Contest. NEPC member C.I. Marshall‘s first book, “The Locksmith … Read moreMember Publication News for March 2023
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Danielle Legros Georges Danielle Legros Georges is a creative and critical writer, translator, and academic who works in the fields of contemporary U.S. poetry, African-American and African-diasporic … Read more2023 Contest Judges Announced
Sarah Audsley recently published Landlock X with Texas Review Press, available now. This is the poet’s first book. Irene Mitchell recently published My Report from the Uwharries, Dos Madres Press, … Read moreMember Publication News for February 2023
Congratulations to Lynne Viti, our communications co-chair, who was selected as Westwood’s Poet Laureate.