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2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

10 YEARS OF MASS POETRY!

Our 2018 headliners: Sonia Sanchez · Kaveh Akbar · Duy Doan · Jeffrey Harrison · Dorianne Laux · Erika Meitner · Carl Phillips · Nicole Sealey · Sean Thomas Dougherty · Rhina P. Espaillat

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1:15pm EDT

Circling the Earth: The Poetry of Refuge and SanctuaryFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomDeborah Leipziger • Melissa Castillo-Garsow • Robbie Gamble • Gloria Mindock • Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Poetry of Place: BostonFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomRuby Poltorak • Kevin Bowen • Charles Coe • Regie Gibson • Holly Guran Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else'sFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTaylor Liljegren Resisting the Erasure of Our (Im)Migrant Roots: Workshop with María Luisa ArroyoLIMITED Old Town Hall, 2nd floorMaría Luisa Arroyo

2:30pm EDT

Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMelissa Varnavas Headline Reading - Rhina P. EspaillatFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomRhina P. Espaillat Golden WalkmanFILLING Old Town Hall, 2nd floorDavid Walker • Joseph Gould Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomMarjorie Tesser • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli

3:30pm EDT

Poetry Meet-Up! Adriatic Restaurant and BarMichael Ansara • Laurin Macios • January O'Neil • Sara Siegel

3:45pm EDT

In the Still of the NightFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomDara Wier • Holly St. John Bergon • James Haug • Kate Lindroos FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's TerminalFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomKevin Carey • R.G. Evans • Mark Hillringhouse The Modern DevotionalFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomJusten Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl PhillipsFULL PEM AtriumMalia Chung • Dorianne Laux • Carl Phillips

9:00pm EDT

College SlammersLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomDanielle Jones

9:30pm EDT

Food 4 Thot - Live Podcast!LIMITED Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Kaveh Akbar • Dennis Norris II • Joseph Osmondson • Fran Tirado

8:45am EDT

Poetry and YogaFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Essex RoomCasey Roland • Stephanie Kirkos

9:30am EDT

Forgotten Women: A Tribute in PoetryFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomGinny Lowe Connors • Christine Casson • Carol Dine • Jennifer Freed • Suellen Wedmore How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing!FILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Alice Kociemba • Rhina P. Espaillat • Jacquelyn Malone • David Surette • Rich Youmans Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term IllnessFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomSean Thomas Dougherty

10:30am EDT

Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and RecoveryFULL PEM Create SpacesDonna Munro • Kaveh Akbar • Mary Akers • William Brewer • Nick Flynn • Wendy Mnookin

11:00am EDT

In Transit: A Poetry Reading with Brionne Janae, Joseph Legaspi, Leah Umansky, and Jenny XieFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomJoseph O. Legaspi • Brionne Janae • Leah Umansky • Jenny Xie Nasty Women Poets: A Reading and Panel Discussion of Unapologetic, Subversive, Feminist VerseFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomJenna Le • Janet Aalfs • Liz Ahl • DeMisty D. Bellinger • Lesléa Newman Satellites, Adoptees, and Undocumented Immigrants: Kundiman and UndocuPoets Present Underrepresented Asian American NarrativesLIMITED PEM Connect BLDGMarci Calabretta Cancio-Bello • Janine Joseph • E. J. Koh • Anni Liu • Ansley Moon Street Cred: Four Massachusetts Barrow Street Press PoetsLIMITED The Bridge at 211Richard Hoffman • Doug Anderson • Danielle Georges • Kevin McLellan Critical Collaboration: Poets and EditorsFILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomWyn Cooper • Tina Cane • Karin Gottshall • Gregg LeStage Performers and ProfessorsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMichael Brown • Richard Cambridge • Regie Gibson • Melissa Guillet • Valerie Lawson To Carry Across: Poetry in TranslationLIMITED Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Daniel Tobin • Rhina P. Espaillat • Aidan Rooney Poems out of MusicFULL New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Christopher Nye Political/Civic PoetryFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 1Paul Saint-Amand • Gayle C. Heney • C. J. Morse Small Press Fair and Literary Fair Pedestrian Walkway

12:15pm EDT

3 Nations Anthology Reading: Native, Canadian & New England WritersLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomValerie Lawson • Carol Hobbs • Paul Hostovsky • Sonja Johanson • Cheryl Savageau • David Surette KabuMerikanas: Women in Cape Verdean American CultureLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomCandida Rose Baptista • Iva Brito • Jarita Davis Love's Executive Order ReadingLIMITED PEM Create SpacesMatthew Lippman • Tina Cane • Kerrin McCadden • Jill McDonough • Daniel Nester • Elizabeth Powell Through Barbed Wire Presents: Invisible VoicesLIMITED Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 2Dianne Zimbabwe • Zella Brown • Kazi Toure Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole SealeyFILLING PEM Morse AuditoriumKaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey Labor & Delivery: Emerging Poets on Notions of Literary SuccessLIMITED The Bridge at 211Chen Chen • Cassandra de Alba • Kimberly Alidio • Mag Gabbert • Keegan Lester Poetry as Social Action: Panel Discussion, Hopeful PromptsFILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Elisabeth Weiss Horowitz • Danielle Georges • Krysten Hill • Fred Marchant • Gloria Mindock Poets on Autism: Hope in the Helicopter RainLIMITED PEM Connect BLDGSean Thomas Dougherty • Susan Elmslie • Kamilah Aisha Moon • Oliver de la Paz Room 222: Boston University Poets & the Lineage of the Confessional PoemLIMITED Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomFrederick Speers • Rachel E DeWoskin • Kirun Kapur • Jacob Strautmann The Poetry of Predation: Women Poets On Writing the Poetry of Misogyny, Abuse, and ViolenceLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomSarah Sousa • Joyce Hayden • Sonja Johanson Memory and RedemptionFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Polly Brown Verbing: Writing Poetry from the BodyFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 2Cathie Desjardins

2:00pm EDT

Cave CanemLIMITED PEM Connect BLDGLillian-Yvonne Bertram • Curtis Crisler • Jarita Davis • nicole terez dutton • Chanda Feldman We're Here, We're Queer: New Poetry Books by LGBTQ WritersLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLesléa Newman • Margot Douaihy • Joy Ladin • Steven Riel Headline Reading - Duy Doan, Jeffery Harrison, and Erika MeitnerLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumDuy Doan • Jeffrey Harrison • Erika Meitner Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and ElegiesFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFred Marchant • Jennifer Barber • David Ferry • George Kalogeris • Raven Ramnath Salamander 25th Anniversary ReadingLIMITED The Bridge at 211Jennifer Barber • Ben Berman • Danielle Georges • Kelle Groom Story Retold/Renewed: Women Retelling HistoryLIMITED Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Georgia Popoff • Antoinette Brim • Kimberly A. Collins You Are Here: Writing From Your Place in HistoryFILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomDanielle Jones • Jill McDonough • Nomi Stone Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!FILLING PEM Create SpacesChing-In Chen Start Right: Writing First LinesFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 1Dawn Paul What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMollie Chandler Blackout Poetry Creative Studio--Drop-in Session!LIMITED New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Casey Roland

3:15pm EDT

10th Anniversary of the UMass Boston MFA ProgramFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLloyd Schwartz • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram • Jill McDonough Celebrating Our 25th: Four Way Books ReadingLIMITED The Bridge at 211Vincent Guerra • Andrea Cohen • Miranda Field • Margaree Little • Kamilah Aisha Moon Common ThreadsFILLING PEM Connect BLDGAlan Feldman • Kathleen Aguero • Linda Bamber • Erica Funkhouser • Jeffrey Harrison • Elizabeth McKim A Furious Din: Poetry of SurvivalFULL PEM Create SpacesTamiko Beyer • Duy Doan • Joseph O. Legaspi The Poetic ObsessionFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomOliver de la Paz State of PoetryFULL Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomSimeon Berry • Amy Dryansky • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Militello • Nomi Stone

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading -Sonia SanchezFULL The Bridge at 211Sonia Sanchez • Jocelyn Shen

9:30pm EDT

What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & PoetryFULL Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1J.D. Scrimgeour • Michael Ansara • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Krysten Hill • Alice Kociemba • Lisa Mangini

9:00am EDT

Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules (craft talk)FILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomErika Meitner HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in DubaiLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomJennifer Jean • Anne Loyer • Amy Merrill • Lillie Paquette

10:15am EDT

Bared: Poetry on Bras and BreastsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomKathleen Aguero • Barbara Helfgott Hyett • Jill McDonough • Julie Danho O'Connell Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry CleanseFILLING PEM Connect BLDGK. T. Landon • Jane Poirier Hart • Jennifer Martelli • Jeanne Obbard • Rebecca Hart Olander On Our Own Terms: Underrepresented Voices in PoetryLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomPilar Quintana • Dominique Cyprès • Nate Vaccaro • James St. Vincent The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small PressFILLING PEM Create SpacesJanet MacFadyen • Carlyn Marcus Ekstrom • Ed Rayher • Catherine Stearns • Anna M. Warrock "all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical worldFILLING Salem Witch Trials MemorialMichael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual PracticeFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomNadia Colburn

11:30am EDT

Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty ReadingFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomStephen Haven • Steven Cramer • Joan Houlihan The Low-Residency MFA: Is It Right for You?LIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomK. T. Landon • Victorio Reyes Asili • Greg Hill • Lauren Banks Killelea • Pamela Taylor Writing While SoberFILLING PEM Connect BLDGKali Lightfoot • Richard Hoffman • Jennifer Martelli The Edna ProjectLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoey Farber • Liz Queler Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & SparkFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of TrumpFILLING PEM Create SpacesEunice Flanders • Beth Platow

1:00pm EDT

Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore WatsonLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoan Houlihan The Word WorksFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomKevin McLellan • Jennifer Barber • Carrie Bennett • Frannie Lindsay • Fred Marchant To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual LaborFILLING PEM Connect BLDGJulia Bouwsma • Kimberly Burwick • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Kevin Goodan Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in TranslationLIMITED PEM Create SpacesKristine Doll • Hassanal Abdullah • Stanley Barkan • Srinivas Reddy • William Wolak The Vocabulary of Place: Finding the Right Words for a Particular Setting. Learning from Sylvia Plath’s “Point Shirley”—A Generative WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTom Daley

1:30pm EDT

MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with FormLIMITED Old Town Hall, 2nd floorLloyd Schwartz

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling SpeakeasyLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and LossLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomGail Mazur