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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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9:00am 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