Boston Poet first emerged as BostonPoet, “A monthly publication and calendar of events for poets” in July 1995. It was founded by Diana Sáenz.  In 2000, It became bostonpoet.com, an online magazine, and has been running ever since.

2006 marked the Boston Poet Publishing Company which includes The Boston Poet Journal, along with the occasional publication of chap books and books of poetry. The Boston Poet Journal is run and edited by Diana Sáenz and Marshall Harvey.

Online, bostonpoet.com allows poets to enter their own features or events and, within minutes, appear on the bostonpoet.com Calendar. 

2009 introduces the ability to enter ongoing poetry venues by anyone interested in doing so.  We have also introduced Open Mike where any poet may enter his or her poem and have it instantaneously appear in bostonpoet.com.

Marshall Harvey

Diana Saenz

By the way, 2009 not only marks the 14th year the BostonPoet, but the anniversary of Marshal and Diana's time together.  Undoubtedly, their relationship developed and strengthened by the early years of working together on the publication of poetry, and has endured with their love for the spoken and written word.

Poet Photos - Thanks to D.A. Boucher and C.D. Collins for permission to use their images in our design.

The Landing page is a photo of D.A. Boucher, a Lawrence born poet and still there, who has been performing under various nom-de-plumes, Bambie Lane, Da Butcher, The Short Attention Span Poet, and The King of Poetry.  This photo was taken at the now defunct but once great Capo's which was in the downtown Lowell area. 

On the inside pages is C.D. Collins, performing her lyrics and poetry with her band, Pincurl at the Jimmy Tingle Theater on Davis Square, MA, also defunct.  C.D. is a native of Sterling, KY, lives in Malden, MA and spends her summers at her farm in Kentucky. A book of her short stories 2009, Blue Land, is only one of her numerous writing accomplishments.

The sky and top of the Zakim Bridge shown on the top right hand corner of some of our web pages is a product of The Big Dig.

Zakim Bridge, Boston, MA

As final designs for the Central Artery / Tunnel Project were coming together in the late 1980s, engineers were faced with a daunting problem: How to get the new highway across the Charles River without disturbing the existing double-deck I-93 bridge or the MBTA's underwater Orange Line subway tunnel. Charlestown residents had already rejected a complex, 18-lane ramp design known as "Scheme Z" because they believed it would blight their neighborhood.

The solution was provided by world-renowned Swiss bridge architect Christian Menn, who proposed a 10-lane cable-stayed bridge with 30-story towers whose design evoked an existing Boston landmark, the Bunker Hill Monument. Big Dig planners fell in love with the design and, as the bridge rose above the skyline, so have many Bostonians. It was dubbed the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in honor of late Boston civil rights activist Leonard Zakim.

Globe Photo , Globe Staff Photo