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Michael Robert Ball

Boston
Websitemichaelball.com
Not overly crippled by careers of journalism and technical writing, now part of the Hyde Park Poetry Workshop.
Saturday, May 5
 

9:30am EDT

How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing!FILLING Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1Alice Kociemba • Rhina P. Espaillat • Jacquelyn Malone • David Surette • Rich Youmans

11:00am EDT

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

12:15pm EDT

Memory and RedemptionFILLING New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Polly Brown

2:00pm EDT

Blackout Poetry Creative Studio--Drop-in Session!LIMITED New Liberty Charter School, Room 3Casey Roland
 
Sunday, May 6
 

9:00am EDT

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

10:15am EDT

Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry CleanseFILLING PEM Connect BLDGK. T. Landon • Jane Poirier Hart • Jennifer Martelli • Jeanne Obbard • Rebecca Hart Olander

1:00pm EDT

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