Jamaica Pond Poets is a collaborative poetry workshop that meets every Saturday morning in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts to creatively comment on one another’s poems.

Members of Jamaica Pond Poets (JPP) have all been published in literary magazines. Several have won awards for their work and published books or chapbooks. They frequently read at various regional events as individuals and also as a group.

JPP has been running constantly for 15 years. As of autumn, 2009, members of JPP include John Anderson, Dorothy Derifield, Carolyn Gregory, Holly Guran, Audrey Henderson, Alice Kociemba, Jennifer Markell, Brian McMichael, Sandra Storey, and Gary Whited

JPP co-sponsors Chapter and Verse, a literary reading series at the historic Loring-Greenough House, and Word on the Street, a summer poetry reading series in the business district of Jamaica Plain. One member organizes Calliope, a reading series in West Falmouth, (Cape Cod), Massachusetts.