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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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Pat M. Kuras

Pat M. Kuras has two poetry chapbooks, Hope: Newfound Clarity and Insomniac Bliss. Her poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Lavender Review, and Nerve Cowboy.
Friday, May 4
 

1:15pm EDT

Poetry of Place: BostonFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomRuby Poltorak • Kevin Bowen • Charles Coe • Regie Gibson • Holly Guran

2:30pm EDT

Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomMarjorie Tesser • Jennifer Jean • Jennifer Martelli

3:45pm EDT

The Modern DevotionalFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia RoomJusten Ahren • M R Baird • Sue Scavo • Karla Van Vliet

7:30pm EDT

Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl PhillipsFULL PEM AtriumMalia Chung • Dorianne Laux • Carl Phillips
 
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

10:30am EDT

Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and RecoveryFULL PEM Create SpacesDonna Munro • Kaveh Akbar • Mary Akers • William Brewer • Nick Flynn • Wendy Mnookin

12:15pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

We're Here, We're Queer: New Poetry Books by LGBTQ WritersLIMITED Hawthorne Hotel, Library RoomLesléa Newman • Margot Douaihy • Joy Ladin • Steven Riel
 
Sunday, May 6
 

10:15am EDT

Reading and Writing Poetry as a Spiritual PracticeFULL Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomNadia Colburn

11:30am EDT

Writing While SoberFILLING PEM Connect BLDGKali 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 WorkshopFILLING Hawthorne Hotel, Skylark RoomTom Daley