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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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Popular Events

 

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Headline Reading -Sonia Sanchez

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Headline Reading - Dorianne Laux and Carl Phillips

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Headline Reading-Kaveh Akbar and Nicole Sealey

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The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy

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Headline Reading - Duy Doan, Jeffery Harrison, and Erika Meitner

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What Poetry Means to Me: Stories about Poems, Poets, & Poetry

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Headline Reading - Rhina P. Espaillat

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In the Still of the Night

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Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry

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In Transit: A Poetry Reading with Brionne Janae, Joseph Legaspi, Leah Umansky, and Jenny Xie

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Reading with Martha Collins, Joan Houlihan, and Ellen Dore Watson

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"all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day—": Emily Dickinson and the botanical world

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Common Threads

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Poetry of Place: Boston

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College Slammers

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Food 4 Thot - Live Podcast!

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The Edna Project

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Breaking Through the Stigma: Writing Through Addiction and Recovery

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A Furious Din: Poetry of Survival

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State of Poetry

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The Poet, The Artist, The Printer: Book Arts and the Small Press

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How Voice Finds Form: Making Our Narrative Poems Sing!

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Poetry as Social Action: Panel Discussion, Hopeful Prompts

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Poetry From The Heart: Writing Poems as a Means to Heal in the Era of Trump

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Building an Online Writing Community: Lessons from the Poetry Cleanse

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Writing While Sober

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To the Bone: Poems of Work and Manual Labor

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HER STORY IS: American & Iraqi Women Artists Collaborate in Dubai

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3 Nations Anthology Reading: Native, Canadian & New England Writers

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You Are Here: Writing From Your Place in History

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Golden Walkman

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The Modern Devotional

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Nasty Women Poets: A Reading and Panel Discussion of Unapologetic, Subversive, Feminist Verse

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Celebrating Our 25th: Four Way Books Reading

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Poets on Poetry: An Ars Poetica Workshop

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Fathers, Present and Absent: Encounters, Enigmas, and Elegies

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Salvage & Adventure: Poetic Play, Remix, Erase, Collage and Assemble!

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10th Anniversary of the UMass Boston MFA Program

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The Poetic Obsession

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Poetry Taboos and You: How and Why to Break the Rules (craft talk)

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Bared: Poetry on Bras and Breasts

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The Word Works

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Circling the Earth: The Poetry of Refuge and Sanctuary

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Suturing with Wounds: Writing Poems About Long Term Illness

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Critical Collaboration: Poets and Editors

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We're Here, We're Queer: New Poetry Books by LGBTQ Writers

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Lesley MFA Poetry Faculty Reading

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Street Cred: Four Massachusetts Barrow Street Press Poets

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Circling the square: Joyful (and helpful) critique workshop

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Lesser Heard Voices East and West: Poetry in Translation