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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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Carol Biesemeyer

Syracuse, NY
Friday, May 4
 

2:30pm

Headline Reading - Rhina P. Espaillat Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomFULLRhina P. Espaillat

3:45pm

The Modern Devotional Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFULLJusten Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet

7:30pm

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

9:30am

Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGSean Thomas Dougherty

11:00am

Political/Civic Poetry New Liberty Charter School, Room 1FILLINGPaul Saint-Amand • Gayle C. Heney • C. J. Morse

12:15pm

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

3:15pm

The Poetic Obsession Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGOliver de la Paz

7:30pm

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

9:30pm

What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & Poetry Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1FULLJ.D. Scrimgeour • Michael Ansara • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Krysten Hill • Alice Kociemba • Lisa Mangini
 
Sunday, May 6
 

10:15am

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

1:00pm

Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore Watson PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDJoan Houlihan