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Friday, January 24
 

7:00pm EST

Workshop for Publishing Poets: PoemWorks
Friday January 24, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST

Allen West, Brittany Perham, and Open Mic

Friday January 24, 2020 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Newtonville Books
 
Thursday, January 30
 

2:00pm EST

Plein Air Poetry Walk
Thursday January 30, 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
The public is invited to join the poets on Sunday, September 17, 2017, as we walk together to the sites of inspiration and share our poems. This year’s theme is memoir. Each poem was started en plein air at old frog pond farm, and the initiating impulse was from objects, plants or animals, or settings, located in the farm’s landscape.

A chapbook of the original poetry will be available at the event, and there will be a reception following.
Readers/Speakers
avatar for Heather Corbally Bryant

Heather Corbally Bryant

Lecturer, Wellesley College
Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College; previously she taught at Penn State University and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her AB from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her first book, How... Read More →
Thursday January 30, 2020 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio
 
Saturday, February 1
 

7:00pm EST

Newton Free Library Poetry Series
Saturday February 1, 2020 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Meets At The Newton Free Library In Newton, Mass. 330 Homer Street. Director: Doug Holder 617-628-2313 Dougholder@Post.Harvard.Edu (Meets Second Tuesday Of Designated Months.7PM Open Mic.)

Ben Berman --Ben Berman’s First Book, Strange Borderlands (Able Muse Press, 2012), Won The Peace Corps Award For Best Book Of Poetry And Was A Finalist For The Massachusetts Book Awards. His Second Book Is Figuring In The Figure, Forthcoming From Able Muse Press In 2017. He Has Received Awards From The New England Poetry Club And Fellowships From The Massachusetts Cultural Council And Somerville Arts Council. He Is The Poetry Editor At Solstice Literary Magazine And Teaches In The Boston Area, Where He Lives With His Wife And Daughters.

Richard Waring---
Richard Waring’s Poems Have Appeared In The Comstock Review, Chest, Sanctuary, Contact II, Dark Horse, The American Journal Of Nursing,Mothering, Inward Springs, The Journal Of The American Medical Association,And Other Publications. Richard Has A B.A. In English Literature From Drew University And Attended The Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics At Naropa Institute, Where He Studied The Poetry Of William Carlos Williams With Allen Ginsberg. From 1982 To 1988. He Is A Senior Layout Artist For The New England Journal Of Medicine. His Latest Collection Is What Love Tells Me.

Clara Silverstein---Clara Silverstein Is The Author Of Four Books, A Blogger About Historic Recipes At Heritagerecipebox.Com, And A Long-Time Writer In The Boston Area. She Has Taught At Grub Street, Inc., Consulted With Individual Writers, And Worked With Young Adults As A Tutor And At The Books Of Hope Literacy Empowerment Program. From 2008 To 2017, She Directed The Chautauqua Writers' Center, Which Sponsors Creative Writing Workshops And Author Programs At The Chautauqua Institution.
Saturday February 1, 2020 7:00pm - 9:00pm EST
Newton Free Library
 
Thursday, February 6
 

4:00pm EST

Art on the Trails Ekphrastic Poetry Art Exhibit Closing Event
Thursday February 6, 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm EST
After reading work from over 20 local and regional poets, jurors Maura Snell and Cynthia Franca have selected 25 poems by 13 writers for inclusion in a chapbook which features both the art and poetry and is generously published by The Tishman Review. These poets will read their work at the closing event for Art on the Trails 2017, a Plein Air Poetry Walk, on Sunday, September 24th beginning at 4 pm. Refreshments will be served. The chapbook will include the selected poems and the art installations that inspired them will be available for sale on that day. All proceeds of the sale of these books will help fund future Art on the Trails exhibitions.
Thursday February 6, 2020 4:00pm - 6:00pm EST
Beals Preserve
 
Wednesday, April 27
 

TBA

Zvi Sesling
Wednesday April 27, 2022 TBA
Wednesday April 27, 2022 TBA
Temple Isaiah
 
Tuesday, May 17
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry in the Parlor, curated by the New England Poetry Club
Tuesday May 17, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Friday, January 3, 7 pm
Poetry in the Parlor, curated by the New England Poetry Club
Kenneth Lee, Gloria Mindock, and Tontongi
The Old Manse
Concord, MA
Readers/Speakers
Tuesday May 17, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
The Old Manse
 
Thursday, May 26
 

3:00pm EDT

Concord Poetry at the Library Series
Thursday May 26, 2022 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Thursday May 26, 2022 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Concord Free Public Library
 
Tuesday, June 7
 

7:30pm EDT

Freeverse! Team Slam at Mill City Speaks ft. Febo
Tuesday June 7, 2022 7:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
Freeverse!
@Mill City Speaks
Wicked Loud Team Qualifier Slam
$100 in prizes

Poets 13 to 19 are eligible to compete
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Friday, January 24
7:30 to 10 pm

@ Coffee & Cotton in Mill No. 5
250 Jackson Street
Lowell, MA

4th Friday of Every Month
Poetry Slam
Open Mic
Tuesday June 7, 2022 7:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
Coffee and Cotton
 
Tuesday, June 21
 

TBA

TBA

Poetry at the Y
Tuesday June 21, 2022 TBA
Readers/Speakers
Tuesday June 21, 2022 TBA
West Suburban YMCA
 
Wednesday, June 22
 

TBA

 
Thursday, June 23
 

TBA

 
Saturday, June 25
 

TBA

7:00pm EDT

Newton Free Library Poetry Series
Saturday June 25, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Joyce Wilson--- Joyce Wilson, editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997, has taught English at Boston University and Suffolk University. A chapbook of twenty poems inspired by the Fore River Bridge, The Need for a Bridge, was published with Finishing Line Press in March 2019. A full-length manuscript Take and Receive appeared with Kelsay Books in May 2019.

James Najamar --- Lives in Newton. He teaches Victorian literature at Boston College, and edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. His first book of poetry, The Goat Songs. won the Vassar Miller Prize and is being published by the University of North Texas Press this April. A. E. Stallings was the judge.

Ravi Yelamanchili-- His writing has previously been published in the Ibbetson Street, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Somerville Times, Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature, Muse India, and several other journals.

Curated by Doug Holder
Saturday June 25, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Newton Free Library
 
Wednesday, July 27
 

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic
Wednesday July 27, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
 Come on down to the cafe for a night celebrating local LGBTQ+ talent. Whether you're an amateur or a seasoned professional we want to hear your songs, stories, and poems, see your dance routines, and laugh til our sides hurt at your stand up bits. Emcee Resi Ibañez is a Filipinx genderqueer poet, writer, and community storyteller, who believes in storytelling as a way of building community. They have been published in bklyn boihood’s Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, LOAM magazine, and will soon be published in Blue Oak Press’s upcoming anthology They Rise Like a Wave: an Anthology of Asian American Woman Poets, as well as Loom Press’s Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1770488649764214/ .
Wednesday July 27, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Coffee and Cotton
 
Wednesday, August 24
 

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic
Wednesday August 24, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Come on down to the cafe for a night celebrating local LGBTQ+ talent. Whether you're an amateur or a seasoned professional we want to hear your songs, stories, and poems, see your dance routines, and laugh til our sides hurt at your stand up bits. Emcee Resi Ibañez is a Filipinx genderqueer poet, writer, and community storyteller, who believes in storytelling as a way of building community. They have been published in bklyn boihood’s Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, LOAM magazine, and will soon be published in Blue Oak Press’s upcoming anthology They Rise Like a Wave: an Anthology of Asian American Woman Poets, as well as Loom Press’s Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1770488649764214/ .
Wednesday August 24, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Coffee and Cotton
 
Sunday, August 28
 

7:00pm EDT

Lynne Viti, Reading
Sunday August 28, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Author of two poetry chapbooks and a forthcoming full-length poetry collection and a short fiction collection, Lynne Viti will read from her newest works, both poetry and flash fiction. Q & A and book signing to follow.
BIO:Lynne Viti, lecturer emerita in the Writing Program, Wellesley College, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Baltimore Girls (2017), and The Glamorganshire Bible (2018), and three micro-chapbooks: Punting, (2017), Dreaming Must be Done in the Daytime (2018), and In Louisburgh, County Mayo, Thinking of Dublin (2019), from Origami Poems Project. She received Honorable Mentions in the Glimmer Train Short Fiction Contest, the WOMR/Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, and Grey Borders Wanted Works. Her first full-length poetry collection, Dancing at Lake Montebello, will be published in November 2020 by Apprentice House Press. Her debut hort story collection, Going Too Fast, will be published in March 2020 by Finishing Line Press. She blogs at stillinschool.wordpress.com.
Sunday August 28, 2022 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Westwood Public Library, Islington Branch
 
Monday, August 29
 

7:00pm EDT

National Poetry Month with Martha Collins and Jason Tandon
Monday August 29, 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Martha Collins is the author of Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018), Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016), Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2014), White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012), and Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. Collins has also published four earlier collections of poems, three books of co-translations from the Vietnamese, and two chapbooks.


Jason Tandon is the author of four books of poetry including THE ACTUAL WORLD (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), QUALITY OF LIFE (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), GIVE OVER THE HECKLER AND EVERYONE GETS HURT (Black Lawrence Press, 2009), winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award, and WEE HOUR MARTYRDOM (sunnyoutside, 2008). His poems have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, AGNI Online, Barrow Street, and Esquire. Since 2008, he has taught in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.
Readers/Speakers
Monday August 29, 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Wellesley Books
 
Monday, September 5
 

7:00pm EDT

Lynne Viti Heather Corbally Bryant/Tavi Gonzalez/Pamela Taylor celebrate the Bard's Birthday with Poetry
Monday September 5, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Four poets read from their new works, in celebration of William Shakespeare's 456th birthday.

Lynne Viti, is the author of Baltimore Girls (2017),and The Glamorganshire Bible (2018), and three micro-chapbooks: Punting, (2017), Dreaming Must be Done in the Daytime (2018), and In Louisburgh, County Mayo, Thinking of Dublin (2019. Her debut short story collection is entitled Going Too Fast, (2020) and her full-length poetry collection, Dancing at Lake Montebello, is forthcoming in November 2020.

Heather Corbally Bryant is the author of nine poetry collections. The most recent are
Leaving Santorini (2019, and Practicing Yoga in a Former Shoe Factory (2020)

Octavio (Tavi) Gonzalez is the author of The Book of Ours (2009), from University of Notre Dame, Momotombo Press and poems in the anthology Retrato íntimo de poetas dominicanos: Antología poética de la diáspora

Pamela Taylor, a Cave Canem Fellow (2012-2014). 's chapbook is entitled My Mother’s Child,(Hyacinth Girl Press, June 2015). Her blog, www.poetsdoublelife.com, is geared toward poets with non-literary careers.
Readers/Speakers
avatar for Heather Corbally Bryant

Heather Corbally Bryant

Lecturer, Wellesley College
Heather Corbally Bryant teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College; previously she taught at Penn State University and Harvard College where she won awards for her teaching. She received her AB from Harvard and her PhD from the University of Michigan. Her first book, How... Read More →
Monday September 5, 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Wellesley Books
 
Wednesday, September 21
 

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic
Wednesday September 21, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Come on down to the cafe for a night celebrating local LGBTQ+ talent. Whether you're an amateur or a seasoned professional we want to hear your songs, stories, and poems, see your dance routines, and laugh til our sides hurt at your stand up bits. Emcee Resi Ibañez is a Filipinx genderqueer poet, writer, and community storyteller, who believes in storytelling as a way of building community. They have been published in bklyn boihood’s Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, LOAM magazine, and will soon be published in Blue Oak Press’s upcoming anthology They Rise Like a Wave: an Anthology of Asian American Woman Poets, as well as Loom Press’s Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1770488649764214/ .


Wednesday September 21, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Coffee and Cotton
 
Wednesday, October 26
 

7:00pm EDT

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic
Wednesday October 26, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Come on down to the cafe for a night celebrating local LGBTQ+ talent. Whether you're an amateur or a seasoned professional we want to hear your songs, stories, and poems, see your dance routines, and laugh til our sides hurt at your stand up bits. Emcee Resi Ibañez is a Filipinx genderqueer poet, writer, and community storyteller, who believes in storytelling as a way of building community. They have been published in bklyn boihood’s Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, LOAM magazine, and will soon be published in Blue Oak Press’s upcoming anthology They Rise Like a Wave: an Anthology of Asian American Woman Poets, as well as Loom Press’s Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1770488649764214/ .


Wednesday October 26, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Coffee and Cotton
 
Wednesday, November 23
 

7:00pm EST

LGBTQ+ Lowell Open Mic
Wednesday November 23, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Come on down to the cafe for a night celebrating local LGBTQ+ talent. Whether you're an amateur or a seasoned professional we want to hear your songs, stories, and poems, see your dance routines, and laugh til our sides hurt at your stand up bits. Emcee Resi Ibañez is a Filipinx genderqueer poet, writer, and community storyteller, who believes in storytelling as a way of building community. They have been published in bklyn boihood’s Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity, LOAM magazine, and will soon be published in Blue Oak Press’s upcoming anthology They Rise Like a Wave: an Anthology of Asian American Woman Poets, as well as Loom Press’s Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1770488649764214/ .


Wednesday November 23, 2022 7:00pm - 10:00pm EST
Coffee and Cotton
 
Thursday, March 2
 

7:00pm EST

The Alan Feldman Week of Poetry: Poetry Reading by Daniel Tobin
Thursday March 2, 2023 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
The Framingham State University English Department kicks off its annual Alan Feldman Week of Poetry with a reading by award-winning poet, Daniel Tobin. Tobin is the author of eight books of poems, most recently From Nothing (Four Way Books, 2016), and Blood Labors (Four Way Books, 2018), as well as The Stone in the Air, his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan (Salmon Poetry, 2018). The New York Times named Blood Labors one of the Best Poetry Books of the year for 2018. Among his awards are the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the Julia Ward Howe Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award in Poetry, and creative writing fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Tobin will be reading poems from his latest books, along with new work.

Reservations are recommended, but not required, for this free event. Attendees may park for free in the University's Maynard Road and Salem End Road parking lots.
Hosts
avatar for Daniel Tobin

Daniel Tobin

Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College
Daniel Tobin is the author of six books of poems, Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, Second Things, Belated Heavens (winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry), and The Net (2014). His seventh book of poems, From Nothing, is forthcoming in 2016. He is the author... Read More →
Thursday March 2, 2023 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Framingham State University, Heineman Ecumenical Center
 
Tuesday, September 12
 

1:00pm EDT

Book Launch Party for Kate Hanson Foster's New Book of Poems, Crow Funeral
Tuesday September 12, 2023 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Join us for an afternoon of poetry and music as we celebrate the launch of Kate Hanson Foster's recently released book of poems, Crow Funeral, as well as new work by Matt W. Miller, Todd Hearon, and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

Kate Hanson Foster is the author of Mid Drift, a finalist for the Massachusetts Center for the Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Poet Lore, Salamander, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. A recipient of the NEA Parent Fellowship through the Vermont Studio Center, she lives and writes in Groton, Massachusetts.

Matt W. Miller was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry) , Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Southeast Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, and other journals. He teaches English and coaches football at Phillips Exeter Academy where he also co-directs the Writers’ Workshop at Exeter.

Award-winning poet, playwright and songwriter, Todd Hearon is the author of three collections of poems—Strange Land (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry, 2015) and Crows in Eden (Salmon, 2022)—a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD (Neutral Zones Press, 2021), and the studio album, Border Radio, which was listed as “Best Music of the Seacoast” in 2021. His poems, essays and plays have appeared widely in this country and abroad. He is the recipient of a PEN/New England “Discovery” Award, the Friends of Literature Prize (Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation), the Rumi Prize in Poetry (Arts & Letters), and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College). Born in Texas and raised in North Carolina, he lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, and teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry, and is a finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award. His poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Michael is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. Karen and Michael have a daughter who is pursuing a BFA in Dance Performance at SUNY Purchase.
Tuesday September 12, 2023 1:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
56 Island Street, Lawrence, MA
 
Saturday, March 1
 

7:00pm EST

You, You, You: Finding the Address of Poetry WITH PÅDRAIG Ó TUAMA
Saturday March 1, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Ó Tuama has become a shepherd in the shambolic tradition of contemporary spirituality, treating poetry as a form of agnostic prayer. Poetry, for him, is the language the heart speaks not when it reaches for some externalized divinity but when it seeks to understand itself. —The New Yorker
A poem is a word event going in many directions at once. Sometimes the you of a poem is a specific person, other times it’s the poet, other times it’s a general audience, and still other times, there’s no you at all, so the poem addresses itself to the world. This evening Pádraig Ó Tuama will explore the direction, implication and inspiration contained in poetic verse.
Pádraig Ó Tuama‘s recent PH.D. dissertation examined — among other things — the you of a poem. He presents the Poetry Unbound podcast from On Being Studios, and lectures and speaks widely. His recent publications include Poetry Unbound; 50 Poems to Open Your World (WW Norton 2022) and Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022). Kitchen Hymns is forthcoming in 2024.
Saturday March 1, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Follen Church Society
 
Friday, June 20
 

6:30pm EDT

Poetry at Hale
Friday June 20, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
Whether you choose to share your own poetry or story, or would simply like to appreciate the work of others, join us for an exciting night of spoken word. Poetry nights are ideal for ages 16+ but younger poets and listeners are welcome if they're accompanied by parents or guardians. Events are hosted at Hale (80 Carby Street, Westwood); specific parking and venue information is confirmed by email prior to each event.
Registration for each event opens one month prior to the event date.
Friday June 20, 2025 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
Hale Education, Inc.
 
Monday, July 21
 

6:30pm EDT

TEA AND TRANQUILITY: A RUMI-INSPIRED MEDITATION AND POETRY EXPERIENCE
Monday July 21, 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
A Soulful Encounter: Tea & TranquilityDive into “Tea and Tranquility,” where meditation meets Rumi’s poetry. It’s a unique sanctuary for the soul. Guided by ExpertDr. Anas Chalah leads our session. His expertise in meditation and Sufism promises deep tranquility and connection.

Tea and Tranquility Rituals for Well-being and MeditationWe’ll enjoy organic teas in two rounds. Each tea is selected for its flavor and calming health benefits.

Discovering Rumi’s WisdomExplore Rumi’s love, tolerance, and compassion. His verses guide us to spiritual enlightenment and interconnectedness.

An Enlightening Meditation JourneyAwaken your senses, enrich your mind, and nourish your soul. It’s a journey of self-discovery and inner peace.
Monday July 21, 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
EveryBody in Mind Wellness Center
 
Friday, August 15
 

7:00pm EDT

Poetry Reading with Jason Tandon
Friday August 15, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Jason Tandon will read poems from his two most recent books This Far North and The Actual World. Jason Tandon is the author of five books of poetry, including This Far North (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) and The Actual World (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Boston University, where he is a master lecturer in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program.
Friday August 15, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Milford Town Library
 
Wednesday, September 10
 

7:00pm EDT

A National Poetry Month Event
Wednesday September 10, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
April is National Poetry Month and Wellesley Books will be hosting events throughout the month! For our final event, we welcome poets Jason Tandon (This Far North) and January Gill O'Neil (Glitter Road).This is a free event but we request that you RSVP. You can do so with the link below (no fees) or by calling us at 781-431-1160 during store hours (also no fees).

You can add a purchase of the author's book onto your RSVP. Copies will also be available for purchase at the event. Please note that you must purchase your copy of the book from Wellesley Books in order to have the author sign it at the event.
Wednesday September 10, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Wellesley Books
 
Tuesday, October 7
 

2:00pm EDT

New England Poetry Club: Poetry at the Manse
Tuesday October 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Join the New England Poetry Club outdoors in the open air tent at the Old Manse for free poetry readings on select Sunday afternoons.
Extend your visit by signing up for a tour of the historic house prior to or following the reading. Learn more about tour offerings and pre-register for house tours here. Plan to come early or stay late for a stroll around the orchard and along the banks of the Concord River.

May poets:
Dr. Sara Epstein is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness practices, including writing, in her psychotherapy work with children and adults. She also facilitates and teaches generative writing groups and classes. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry QuarterlyAmethyst ReviewChest JournalNixes Mate ReviewPlainsongsmuseum of americana, among others. Her book reviews have been published in Mom Egg Review.  Bar of Rest is her first book of poetry.

Denise Provost has published two poetry collections: Curious Peach (Ibbetson Street Press, 2019) and City of Stories (Červená Barva Press, 2021).  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Ibbetson Street, Constellations, Muddy River Poetry Review, qarrtsiluni, Quadrille, Poetry Porch, Red Eft, Sonnet Scroll, Sanctuary, Light Quarterly, and in Bagel Bards anthologies. Twice Pushcart-nominated, Provost received the 2012 Best Love Sonnet award from the 2012 Maria C. Faust Sonnet Competition, and the New England Poetry Club’s 2021 Samuel Washington Allen Prize. She was elected co-president of the New England Poetry Club in 2022. Provost served from 2006-2021 in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Gary Whited is a poet, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled, Having Listened, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award, and in 2015 was translated into Russian and a bilingual edition was published. His new book, Being, There includes new poems along with his translation of the ancient Greek fragments of Parmenides from the 5th century BCE. This book dances between the poetic voice of Parmenides and the poetic remembrances of a young life on a prairie cattle ranch. His poems have appeared in journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, Comstock Review, The Wayfarer, Poetry Daily and The Red Letters.
Tuesday October 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
The Old Manse
 


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