Events

The February 7th Hoot is cancelled due to inclement weather. We hope everyone stays safe and warm, and we'll see you in March!

Lee Sharkey’s poetry collections are Walking Backwards (Tupelo Press, 2016), Calendars of Fire (Tupelo, 2013), A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid, 2008), and eight other full-length poetry books and chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Crazyhorse, FIELD, Kenyon...

Students from several area schools will join us as our January Featured Readers. One of the PPLP’s Board’s long term goals is to encourage poetry writing and performance by young people. They’re our poetic future. What better way than to provide a venue? If you’ve...

Gigi Thibodeau’s writing has appeared in Mid-American Review, Soundings East, t.e.l.l. New England, Mingle Magazine, Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies, The Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and elsewhere.  Her blog, The Magpie’s Fancy, has been featured...

Rhosalyn Williams is a poet from Wenvoe, Wales and Tallahassee, Florida. She is an MFA candidate for poetry at the University of New Hampshire where she writes, climbs, teaches, and waits tables. She is a reader for Barnstorm Literary Journal and her writing has...

Rhina P. Espaillat has published ten full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish, and prize-winning translations from and into Spanish. Her work appears in numerous journals, websites and...

Dennis Camire recently published “Combed by Crows” with Deerbrook Editions. His poems have appeared in Poetry East, Spoon River Review, Mid-American Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Maine Public Radio, and in other journals and online zines.  Currently he teaches...

Dudley Laufman was raised near Boston, and graduated from agricultural school. His poems have been in many little mags and journals. William Bauhan Press, Beech River Books and Shaker Village have published books of my poetry. Pudding House and Serif & Pixel Press...

Join us for our Biennial Passing of the Quill Hoot, featuring immediate past laureate, Kate Leigh, and newly minted poet laureate, Mike Nelson.    

April is National Poetry Month! At the Portsmouth Poetry Hoot that means it's time for our Gala Poetry Hoot featuring all our Past Poets Laureate, including: Maren Tirabasi John Perrault Mimi White Elizabeth Knies Mark DeCarteret John-Michael Albert Kimberly Cloutier...