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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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Janie Gendron

York, Maine
Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm EDT

Circling the Earth: The Poetry of Refuge and SanctuaryFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomDeborah Leipziger • Melissa Castillo-Garsow • Robbie Gamble • Gloria Mindock • Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

2:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Rhina P. EspaillatFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomRhina P. Espaillat

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

9:00pm EDT

College SlammersLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomDanielle Jones
 
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

Performers and ProfessorsFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomMichael Brown • Richard Cambridge • Regie Gibson • Melissa Guillet • Valerie Lawson

12:15pm EDT

Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole SealeyFILLING PEM Morse AuditoriumKaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey

2:00pm EDT

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

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

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

The Edna ProjectLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumJoey Farber • Liz Queler

1:00pm EDT

To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual LaborFILLING PEM Connect BLDGJulia Bouwsma • Kimberly Burwick • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Kevin Goodan

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling SpeakeasyLIMITED PEM Morse AuditoriumRegie Gibson