Welcome to the schedule of poetry events happening in Massachusetts! This schedule contains events happening all over the state, as entered by our Poetry Partners and others. It is not limited to Mass Poetry events. To submit an event, click here. For more questions regarding our calendar, you can email marketing@masspoetry.org.
Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: The Misunderstanding of Nature, which received the Poetry Society of America’s First Book Award, The Descent, which received the 2005 Connecticut Book Award, and The Exchange which received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. NPR labels her a “poet’s poet” and Billy Collins calls her voice “fresh and daring”. Her newest collection, Geometry of the Restless Herd, is out in May of 2024. Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Nidia Hernandez and Jennifer Barber, the current poet laureate of Brookline, and is co-sponsored by the New England Poetry Club and the Brookline Commission for the Arts.
