Member Spotlight Fall 2025
It is always a pleasure to share our members’ successes throughout the year – Please join us in celebrating these poetic accomplishments!
Matt Forrest Esenwine will join nationally-recognized children’s poets Allan Wolf and Georgia Heard at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in Denver, CO this November. The three will present a panel discussion on using free verse poetry as a means of engaging students in writing and appreciating poetry. NCTE Annual Convention
Melissa Rossetti Folini’s poem, “A Walk at Wason.” will be included in the forthcoming Quabbin Quills Anthology, Rock Walls and Open Pastures. http://quabbinquills.org/
Can more than one place feel like home? What is it like starting over in five states and countless cities, some of them in another country? How easy is it to make new friends, build new families, and be serial survivors in new places? In Prose, Poetry & Place, a reading that took place on September 15 at the Salem Arts Association, Linda Dini Jenkins shared the experiences of a native New Yorker, now staunch New Englander to answer these questions, blending humor, nostalgia, regret, and travelogue in an unforgettable way.
Brian Evans-Jones’s prose poem “Swallowed” was published in Issue 32 of Sky Island Journal. Sky Island Journal. His prose poem, “Return Service Requested” was published in Issue 19 of Cloudbank journal. Cloudbank Journal Issue 19. His poem, “The Last Night, ” was selected by Dianelly Antigua for inclusion in the anthology The Aplomb Project Portraits Vol. 2, from the Aplomb Project in Dover, NH
Jocelyn Kaye was awarded a space as a participant in poetry in the 100th Writers’ Conference at Bread Loaf in Ripton, Vermont this past August.
J. L. Long’s poem, “I’ll Give You Something To Be Afraid Of” won the Rochester Post’s Pride Poetry Contest this year. Calling All Poets: What Does Pride Mean to You
Poet Rodger Martin joined with singer/songwriter Lenny Solomon to keynote the closing celebration of the Historical Society of Chester County’s “Our Story” exhibit on August 27. Our Story: An Evening of Poetry and Song
Tim Mayo’s poem “At the Chemo Clinic” ” appears in the Fall/Winter Issue of Rat’s Ass Review. At the Chemo Clinic by Tim Mayo
Carla Schwartz participated in the Art on the Trails Ekphrastic Poetry Sculpture walk in the Woods on September 14 at Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA. Art on the Trails. Carla’s poem, “Playing blind man’s bluff I tripped on a sprinkler and got,” appears in the current issue of the New Verse Review. New Verse Review
Courtney Seymour’s poetry was showcased alongside Albert John Belmont’s oil paintings and their co-created mixed media pieces in a late-summer art exhibition. “Reframed” explored the emotional and psychological architecture of house and homes, tracing the journey from uneasy pasts to reimagined futures. The show runs from August 30 to September 30 at the Phoenix Cafe @RISEilience, 29 Main Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts. Reframed
Jim Washington’s poem, “I’m From a Time,” has been included in the anthology, The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work, released by ONE ART on September 1, 2025, Labor Day. One Art Poetry: The Book of Jobs
Congratulations to all our members for their outstanding work!