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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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9:30am EDT

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

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

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

12:15pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

Common ThreadsFILLING PEM Connect BLDGAlan Feldman • Kathleen Aguero • Linda Bamber • Erica Funkhouser • Jeffrey Harrison • Elizabeth McKim State of PoetryFULL Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomSimeon Berry • Amy Dryansky • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Militello • Nomi Stone