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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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Emily Newburger

I am a Boston-based writer and editor.
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

Street Cred: Four Massachusetts Barrow Street Press PoetsLIMITED The Bridge at 211Richard Hoffman • Doug Anderson • Danielle Georges • Kevin McLellan

12:15pm EDT

Poetry as Social Action: Panel Discussion, Hopeful PromptsFILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Elisabeth Weiss • Danielle Georges • Krysten Hill • Fred Marchant • Gloria Mindock

2:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

The Poetic ObsessionFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomOliver De La Paz

7:30pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules (craft talk)FILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomErika Meitner

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

Collaborative Writing: Solidarity, Strategy & SparkFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomRebecca Hart Olander • Elizabeth Paul

1:00pm EDT

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

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling SpeakeasyLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson