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Sunday, May 6
 

9:00am EDT

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

10:15am EDT

Bared: Poetry on Bras and Breasts Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGKathleen Aguero • Barbara Helfgott Hyett • Jill McDonough • Julie Danho O'Connell Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse PEM Connect BLDGFILLINGK. T. Landon • Jane Poirier Hart • Jennifer Martelli • Jeanne Obbard • Rebecca Hart Olander On Our Own Terms: Underrepresented Voices in Poetry Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLIMITEDPilar Quintana • Dominique Cyprès • Nate Vaccaro • James St. Vincent The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press PEM Create SpacesFILLINGJanet 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 world Salem Witch Trials MemorialFILLINGMichael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLNadia Colburn

11:30am EDT

Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty Reading Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGStephen Haven • Steven Cramer • Joan Houlihan The Low-Residency MFA: Is It Right for You? Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLIMITEDK. T. Landon • Victorio Reyes Asili • Greg Hill • Lauren Banks Killelea • Pamela Taylor Writing While Sober PEM Connect BLDGFILLINGKali Lightfoot • Richard Hoffman • Jennifer Martelli The Edna Project PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDJoey Farber • Liz Queler Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of Trump PEM Create SpacesFILLINGEunice Flanders • Beth Platow

1:00pm EDT

Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore Watson PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDJoan Houlihan The Word Works Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGKevin McLellan • Jennifer Barber • Carrie Bennett • Frannie Lindsay • Fred Marchant To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual Labor PEM Connect BLDGFILLINGJulia Bouwsma • Kimberly Burwick • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Kevin Goodan Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation PEM Create SpacesLIMITEDKristine 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 Workshop Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFILLINGTom Daley

1:30pm EDT

MASTER CLASS WITH LLOYD SCHWARTZ: Experimenting with Form Old Town Hall, 2nd floorLIMITEDLloyd Schwartz

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDRegie Gibson MASTER CLASS WITH GAIL MAZUR: Writing Out of Grief and Loss Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomLIMITEDGail Mazur