Massachusetts Statewide Poetry Calendar 2

Welcome! You are invited to join a Zoom meeting Amy Lowell scholars Melissa Bradshaw and Carl Rollyson. 

This year is the 150th anniversary of Amy Lowell’s birth, and the NEPC is conducting an event series to commemorate her substantial work as a poet and for the community. Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1915, Lowell was one of the founders of the New England Poetry Club in 1915, along with Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken. She devoted her career to promoting the Imagist movement in modern poetics in America. Amy Lowell also pushed the boundaries of convention for her time in her feminist style and diva attitudes. More information on Lowell can be found here.

An award-winning Amy Lowell scholar, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw is editing both print and digital editions of the poet’s never-before collected letters. Professor Bradshaw suggests that she will provide some interesting—sometimes conflict-ridden—details of events in the early years of the New England Poetry Club when Lowell was its first president.

Professor Carl Rollyson is the author of the recently published biography, Amy Lowell Anew. His book presents details of Lowell’s unconventional life and critical reassessment of Lowell’s work and legacy.