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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
3:45pm EDT
FDU MFA Poets: This Time It's Terminal
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
FILLING
Kevin Carey • R.G. Evans • Mark Hillringhouse
The Modern Devotional
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
FULL
Justen Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet
Saturday
, May 5
9:30am EDT
How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing!
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
FILLING
Alice Kociemba • Rhina P. Espaillat • Jacquelyn Malone • David Surette • Rich Youmans
10:30am EDT
Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and Recovery
PEM Create Spaces
FULL
Donna Munro • Kaveh Akbar • Mary Akers • William Brewer • Nick Flynn • Wendy Mnookin
11:00am EDT
Critical Collaboration: Poets and Editors
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
FILLING
Wyn Cooper • Tina Cane • Karin Gottshall • Gregg LeStage
Performers and Professors
Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
FILLING
Michael Brown • Richard Cambridge • Regie Gibson • Melissa Guillet • Valerie Lawson
To Carry Across: Poetry in Translation
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
LIMITED
Daniel Tobin • Rhina P. Espaillat • Aidan Rooney
12:15pm EDT
Labor & Delivery: Emerging Poets on Notions of Literary Success
The Bridge at 211
LIMITED
Chen Chen • Cassandra de Alba • Kimberly Alidio • Mag Gabbert • Keegan Lester
Poetry as Social Action: Panel Discussion, Hopeful Prompts
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
FILLING
Elisabeth Weiss Horowitz • Danielle Georges • Krysten Hill • Fred Marchant • Gloria Mindock
Poets on Autism: Hope in the Helicopter Rain
PEM Connect BLDG
LIMITED
Sean Thomas Dougherty • Susan Elmslie • Kamilah Aisha Moon • Oliver de la Paz
Room 222: Boston University Poets & the Lineage of the Confessional Poem
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
LIMITED
Frederick Speers • Rachel E DeWoskin • Kirun Kapur • Jacob Strautmann
The Poetry of Predation: Women Poets On Writing the Poetry of Misogyny, Abuse, and Violence
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
LIMITED
Sarah Sousa • Joyce Hayden • Sonja Johanson
2:00pm EDT
Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and Elegies
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
FILLING
Fred Marchant • Jennifer Barber • David Ferry • George Kalogeris • Raven Ramnath
Salamander 25th Anniversary Reading
The Bridge at 211
LIMITED
Jennifer Barber • Ben Berman • Danielle Georges • Kelle Groom
Story Retold/Renewed: Women Retelling History
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Ballroom 1
LIMITED
Georgia Popoff • Antoinette Brim • Kimberly A. Collins
You Are Here: Writing From Your Place in History
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
FILLING
Danielle Jones • Jill McDonough • Nomi Stone
3:15pm EDT
Common Threads
PEM Connect BLDG
FILLING
Alan Feldman • Kathleen Aguero • Linda Bamber • Erica Funkhouser • Jeffrey Harrison • Elizabeth McKim
State of Poetry
Salem Waterfront Hotel, Compass Room
FULL
Simeon Berry • Amy Dryansky • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Militello • Nomi Stone
Sunday
, May 6
9:00am EDT
HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in Dubai
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
LIMITED
Jennifer Jean • Anne Loyer • Amy Merrill • Lillie Paquette
10:15am EDT
Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse
PEM Connect BLDG
FILLING
K. T. Landon • Jane Poirier Hart • Jennifer Martelli • Jeanne Obbard • Rebecca Hart Olander
On Our Own Terms: Underrepresented Voices in Poetry
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
LIMITED
Pilar Quintana • Dominique Cyprès • Nate Vaccaro • James St. Vincent
The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press
PEM Create Spaces
FILLING
Janet MacFadyen • Carlyn Marcus Ekstrom • Ed Rayher • Catherine Stearns • Anna M. Warrock
11:30am EDT
The Low-Residency MFA: Is It Right for You?
Hawthorne Hotel, Library Room
LIMITED
K. T. Landon • Victorio Reyes Asili • Greg Hill • Lauren Banks Killelea • Pamela Taylor
Writing While Sober
PEM Connect BLDG
FILLING
Kali Lightfoot • Richard Hoffman • Jennifer Martelli
1:00pm EDT
Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation
PEM Create Spaces
LIMITED
Kristine Doll • Hassanal Abdullah • Stanley Barkan • Srinivas Reddy • William Wolak
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Adriatic Restaurant and Bar
Hawthorne Hotel, Essex Room
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Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark Room
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New Liberty Charter School, Room 1
New Liberty Charter School, Room 2
New Liberty Charter School, Room 3
Old Town Hall, 2nd floor
Pedestrian Walkway
PEM Atrium
PEM Connect BLDG
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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