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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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Friday, May 4
 

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

2:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Rhina P. EspaillatFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomRhina P. Espaillat

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl PhillipsFULL PEM AtriumMalia Chung • Dorianne Laux • Carl Phillips
 
Saturday, May 5
 

9:30am EDT

Forgotten Women: A Tribute in PoetryFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomGinny Lowe Connors • Christine Casson • Carol Dine • Jennifer Freed • Suellen Wedmore

11:00am EDT

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

12:15pm EDT

Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole SealeyFILLING PEM Morse AuditoriumKaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey

2:00pm EDT

Headline Reading - Duy Doan, Jeffery Harrison, and Erika MeitnerLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumDuy Doan • Jeffrey Harrison • Erika Meitner

3:15pm EDT

Common ThreadsFILLING PEM Connect BLDGAlan Feldman • Kathleen Aguero • Linda Bamber • Erica Funkhouser • Jeffrey Harrison • Elizabeth McKim

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
 
Sunday, May 6
 

9:00am EDT

HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in DubaiLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomJennifer Jean • Anne Loyer • Amy Merrill • Lillie Paquette

10:15am EDT

"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical worldFILLING Salem Witch Trials MemorialMichael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott

11:30am EDT

The Edna ProjectLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoey Farber • Liz Queler

1:00pm EDT

Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in TranslationLIMITED PEM Create SpacesKristine Doll • Hassanal Abdullah • Stanley Barkan • Srinivas Reddy • William Wolak

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling SpeakeasyLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson