PoemWorks was named One of the Best Places for Workshops by the Boston Globe Calendar! Congratulations to Barbara Helfgott Hyett for creating and running this amazing workshop for 20 years. Here's to many more years of writing with Barbara at her generous table.

Brother Thomas Bezanson Fellowship was awarded to Barbara Helfgott Hyett for her writing. The Boston Globe Arts section of April 25, 2010 featured an article about this fellowship, along with a fabulous photo of Barbara. Please check out the article here and the press release from the Boston Foundation here.

8 Day Poetry Workshop in Southern France. Join Barbara Helfgott Hyett & The Workshop for Publishing Poets at La Manufacture Royale montolieu, Aude, France. June 26 – July 3, 2010. Read more.

PoemWorks – The Workshop for Published Poets Celebrates 25th Anniversary!
Over 2,000 poems published, and more that 80 books of poetry!
PoemWorks celebrates 25 years of service to the Greater Boston arts community; over 80 published books of poetry. Click here to read the press release

Barbara Helfgott Hyett: A Poetry Teacher Who Looks For Work That Sings!
Doug Holder interviews Barbara Helfgott Hyett

Boston Psychoanalytic Society
Presents: Righting My Life, a reading and discussion with Presenter
BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT
Prizewinning poet Barbara Helfgott Hyett read from and discussed her book, RIFT, (University ofArkansas Press: 2008.) This new collection considers, from close and afar, the elemental forces coming to bear on human character in our time. In one sense a consideration of a time of great personal loss, a personal explication of long marriage and its betrayal, these stunning poems take solace in nature's steadfastness, and in the prospect of a newly resilient self, awakened to the predicament of a battered world.

Springing Back After A Split – A pdf file of the recent review by Dennis Mayer in Brookline magazine of Rift is available for reading at this location.

Congratulations to Margot Wizansky who is a finalist in the Inkwell Competition and who also received third prize in the American Literary Review Poetry Competition! Margot is a long time member of PoemWorks. Her two winning poems appear at this location: Margot Wizansky poems

CONGRATULATIONS to Grey Held on the publication of his book Workaday, to be published by Bedbug Press in 2008. the Boston Globe Calendar! Grey has been a PoemWorks workshop member for many years now and is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant among many awards for his rich and moving work.

Congratulations to Emily Ferrara, a long-time member of PoemWorks, for winning the 2006 Bordighera Poetry Prize for her book The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del Dolore). Emily will launch her book at the Bordighera Poetry Prize Awards Ceremony in November at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Selections from Emily's The Alchemy of Grief manuscript can be found at the PoemWorks website at this location: Emily Ferrara and at the Italian-American Writers website

How Did YOU Began Writing with PoemWorks?

Some years back, I was posting workshop flyers in West Roxbury on a very windy day. Some flyers got away from me and one blew against the legs of Rick Brown who happened to be walking along Center Street. He immediately joined the workshop.

Which makes me ask . . . how did YOU come to write poetry with PoemWorks?

PoemWorks is embarking on a new project to collect the stories of how people first came to the workshop. Please email your stories to me so we can share them among us, here at our website.

Thank you . . . Carol Hobbs

Our own Fred Mandell has a new book published, entitled The One-Foot Waterfall. Congratulations, Fred! Amazon.com link to: The One-Foot Waterfall