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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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DJ

Dr. Jim Brosnan

Johnson & Wales University
Full Professor of English
Providence, RI
Poet and teacher of poetry and creative writing. Chairs the annual Writers Conference at Ocean Park (Maine) every August
Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm

Resisting the Erasure of Our (Im)Migrant Roots: Workshop with María Luisa Arroyo Old Town Hall, 2nd floorLIMITEDMaria Luisa Arroyo

2:30pm

Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica Workshop Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGMarjorie Tesser • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli

7:30pm

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

9:30am

How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing! Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1FILLINGAlice Kociemba • Rhina P. Espaillat • Jacquelyn Malone • David Surette • Rich Youmans

11:00am

Critical Collaboration: Poets and Editors Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomFILLINGWyn Cooper • Tina Cane • Karin Gottshall • Gregg LeStage

12:15pm

Love's Executive Order Reading PEM Create SpacesLIMITEDMatthew Lippman • Tina Cane • Kerrin McCadden • Jill McDonough • Daniel Nester • Elizabeth Powell

2:00pm

Start Right: Writing First Lines New Liberty Charter School, Room 1FILLINGDawn Paul

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
 
Sunday, May 6
 

10:15am

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

11:30am

Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & Spark Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul

1:00pm

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