2018 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Four poets with recently released collections share their work, guiding the audience on journeys across the globe, into the past, and toward the future. These three debuts and a second collection address how we move through the world, cope with painful pasts, learn, change, and how we might navigate any turbulence ahead. Each of these collections were heralded by esteemed judges and selected for publication in concert with the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award (Juan Felipe Herrera), the New Issues Poetry Prize (Mary Szybist), Eyewear Publishing's Sexton Prize (Don Share), or the BOAAT Book Prize (Dorianne Laux).