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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
Coffee. Chocolate. Poetry. Golden Retrievers and cats. Hot showers. Birch trees. Truro, Mass. The ocean. Baking. Naps. Moss. Truffle fries. Provincetown. Oysters. First snow falls, first summer swims.
Things I don't get: organized sports, golf,  exercise classes. Grateful to have survived the last four years.
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