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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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hANNAH L WAGNER

Salem, Massachusetts
Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm EDT

Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else'sFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTaylor Liljegren

2:30pm EDT

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

3:45pm EDT

In the Still of the NightFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomDara Wier • Holly St. John Bergon • James Haug • Kate Lindroos

7:30pm EDT

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

9:30am EDT

Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term IllnessFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomSean Thomas Dougherty

11:00am EDT

Nasty Women Poets: A Reading and Panel Discussion of Unapologetic, Subversive, Feminist VerseFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomJenna Le • Janet Aalfs • Liz Ahl • DeMisty D. Bellinger • Lesléa Newman

12:15pm EDT

Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole SealeyFILLING PEM Morse AuditoriumKaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey Memory and RedemptionFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Polly Brown

2:00pm EDT

What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your PoetryFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMollie Chandler

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

9:30pm EDT

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

Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual PracticeFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomNadia Colburn

11:30am EDT

Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty ReadingFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomStephen Haven • Steven Cramer • Joan Houlihan

1:00pm EDT

The Vocabulary of Place: Finding the Right Words for a Particular Setting. Learning from Sylvia Plath’s “Point Shirley”—A Generative WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTom Daley

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling SpeakeasyLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson