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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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Daniel Walsh

Friday, May 4
 

3:45pm EDT

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

7:30pm EDT

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

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

11:00am EDT

Poems out of MusicFULL New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Christopher Nye

12:15pm EDT

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

Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!FILLING PEM Create SpacesChing-In Chen

3:15pm EDT

State of PoetryFULL Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomSimeon Berry • Amy Dryansky • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Militello • Nomi Stone

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading -Sonia SanchezFULL The Bridge at 211Sonia Sanchez • Jocelyn Shen
 
Sunday, May 6
 

10:15am EDT

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

11:30am EDT

The Edna ProjectLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoey Farber • Liz Queler

1:00pm EDT

Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore WatsonLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoan Houlihan