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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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Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm

Personified: Finding Your Voice in Someone Else's Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLTaylor Liljegren

2:30pm

Golden Walkman Old Town Hall, 2nd floorFILLINGDavid Walker • Joseph Gould

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

9:00pm

College Slammers Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLIMITEDDanielle Jones
 
Saturday, May 5
 

9:30am

Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomFILLINGGinny Lowe Connors • Christine Casson • Carol Dine • Jennifer Freed • Suellen Wedmore

11:00am

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

12:15pm

Labor & Delivery: Emerging Poets on Notions of Literary Success The Bridge at 211LIMITEDChen Chen • Cassandra de Alba • Kimberly Alidio • Mag Gabbert • Keegan Lester Memory and Redemption New Liberty Charter School, Room 3FILLINGPolly Brown

2:00pm

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

3:15pm

The Poetic Obsession Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGOliver de la Paz

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

Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual Practice Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomFULLNadia Colburn

11:30am

The Edna Project PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDJoey Farber • Liz Queler

1:00pm

The Word Works Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomFILLINGKevin McLellan • Jennifer Barber • Carrie Bennett • Frannie Lindsay • Fred Marchant

2:30pm

The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy PEM Morse AuditoriumLIMITEDRegie Gibson