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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
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Melissa Varnavas
3:45pm EDT
The Modern Devotional
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Justen Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet
7:30pm EDT
Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl Phillips
FULL
PEM Atrium
Malia Chung • Dorianne Laux • Carl Phillips
9:30pm EDT
Food 4 Thot - Live Podcast!
LIMITED
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
Kaveh Akbar • Dennis Norris II • Joseph Osmondson • Fran Tirado
Saturday
, May 5
9:30am EDT
Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness
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Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Sean Thomas Dougherty
10:30am EDT
Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and Recovery
FULL
PEM Create Spaces
Donna Munro • Kaveh Akbar • Mary Akers • William Brewer • Nick Flynn • Wendy Mnookin
12:15pm EDT
Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole Sealey
FILLING
PEM Morse Auditorium
Kaveh Akbar • Hannah Larrabee • Nicole Sealey
Memory and Redemption
FILLING
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Polly Brown
2:00pm EDT
What Big Words You Have: Using Fairy Tales in Your Poetry
FULL
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Mollie Chandler
3:15pm EDT
The Poetic Obsession
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Oliver de la Paz
7:30pm EDT
Headline Reading -Sonia Sanchez
FULL
The Bridge at 211
Sonia Sanchez • Jocelyn Shen
9:30pm EDT
What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & Poetry
FULL
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
J.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 Room
Erika Meitner
10:15am EDT
"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world
FILLING
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Michael Medeiros • Lucy Abbott
11:30am EDT
Writing While Sober
FILLING
PEM Connect BLDG
Kali 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
FILLING
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
Tom Daley
2:30pm EDT
The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy
LIMITED
PEM Morse Auditorium
Regie Gibson
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Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
Pedestrian Walkway
PEM Atrium
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PEM Create Spaces
PEM Morse Auditorium
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 2
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
The Bridge at 211
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