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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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JH

Jennifer Hendricks

Friday, May 4
 

2:30pm

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

3:45pm

FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's Terminal Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFILLINGKevin Carey • R.G. Evans • Mark Hillringhouse

7:30pm

Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl Phillips PEM AtriumFULLMalia Chung • Dorianne Laux • Carl Phillips

9:30pm

Food 4 Thot - Live Podcast! Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1LIMITEDKaveh Akbar • Dennis Norris II • Joseph Osmondson • Fran Tirado
 
Saturday, May 5
 

11:00am

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

12:15pm

Room 222: Boston University Poets & the Lineage of the Confessional Poem Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomLIMITEDFrederick Speers • Rachel E DeWoskin • Kirun Kapur • Jacob Strautmann

2:00pm

Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble! PEM Create SpacesFILLINGChing-In Chen

3:15pm

State of Poetry Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass RoomFULLSimeon Berry • Amy Dryansky • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Militello • Nomi Stone

7:30pm

Headline Reading -Sonia Sanchez The Bridge at 211FULLSonia Sanchez • Jocelyn Shen

9:30pm

What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & Poetry Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1FULLJ.D. Scrimgeour • Michael Ansara • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Krysten Hill • Alice Kociemba • Lisa Mangini
 
Sunday, May 6
 

9:00am

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

10:15am

The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press PEM Create SpacesFILLINGJanet MacFadyen • Carlyn Marcus Ekstrom • Ed Rayher • Catherine Stearns • Anna M. Warrock

11:30am

Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty Reading Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGStephen Haven • Steven Cramer • Joan Houlihan

1:00pm

Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation PEM Create SpacesLIMITEDKristine Doll • Hassanal Abdullah • Stanley Barkan • Srinivas Reddy • William Wolak

2:30pm

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDRegie Gibson