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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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Kathy

Connecticut


Friday, May 4
 

2:30pm EDT

Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshop Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFILLINGMelissa Varnavas

3:45pm EDT

The Modern Devotional Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFULLJusten Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet

7:30pm EDT

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

9:30pm EDT

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

9:30am EDT

Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGSean Thomas Dougherty

10:30am EDT

Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and Recovery PEM Create SpacesFULLDonna Munro • Kaveh Akbar • Mary Akers • William Brewer • Nick Flynn • Wendy Mnookin

12:15pm EDT

Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole Sealey PEM Morse AuditoriumFILLINGKaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey Memory and Redemption New Liberty Charter School, Room 3FILLINGPolly Brown

2:00pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

The Poetic Obsession Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGOliver de la Paz

7:30pm EDT

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

9:30pm EDT

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 EDT

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

10:15am EDT

"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world Salem Witch Trials MemorialFILLINGMichael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott

11:30am EDT

Writing While Sober PEM Connect BLDGFILLINGKali Lightfoot • Richard Hoffman • Jennifer Martelli

1:00pm EDT

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

2:30pm EDT

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDRegie Gibson